Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Role Purpose

As the Senior Director of FP&A at Chainguard, you will lead the strategic finance function responsible for planning, forecasting, analysis, and business partnering. You will drive financial insights and decision-support that enable Chainguard’s growth in the open-source security space. You will partner with senior leadership to translate business strategy into financial plans, ensure robust processes, and guide high-visibility decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the annual budget, quarterly re-forecasting, and long-range (3-5 year) strategic planning processes.

• Develop and maintain driver-based financial models, scenario planning, and what-if analyses to support business growth and capital allocation decisions.

• Provide timely, actionable financial and operational insight to business unit heads (GTM, Product, Engineering, Ops) and executive leadership: revenue trends, margin analysis, cost structure, cash flow, head-count planning.

• Own the monthly/quarterly business review process: present P&L, balance sheet, cash flow variance analysis, highlight risks & opportunities.

• Partner with Accounting/Controller on financial close, forecasting vs actuals, ensuring data integrity, assumptions validation, and reporting consistency.

• Drive process improvement, automation, and system enhancements within FP&A (e.g., financial planning tools, dashboards, analytics).

• Serve as a strategic business partner: influence decision making, evaluate new business models, investments, partnerships, M&A, pricing, cost optimization.

• Build, lead and develop a high-performing FP&A team: recruit, mentor, set goals, build skills in financial modelling, business partnering, and presentation.

• Ensure FP&A aligns with company values and culture – enabling a fast-moving startup/scale-up environment while maintaining rigor and discipline.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field

• ~10+ years of progressive FP&A/strategic finance experience, ideally in high-growth technology / SaaS / cybersecurity / security software companies.

• Demonstrated track record of leading FP&A at the director or senior-director level: building models, driving planning/forecasting, partnering with senior leadership.

• Strong business partnering and influencing skills — able to translate financial insight into business decisions, engage non-finance stakeholders.

• Excellent analytical and financial modelling skills; comfortable with complexity, ambiguity, and rapid change.

• Strong communication skills — able to present to the C-suite and board, distill complex financials into clear recommendations.

• Experience with driver-based planning, scenario modelling, and advanced Excel / financial planning tools. Familiarity with enterprise planning/CPM systems is a plus.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup/scale-up environment, with growth orientation, and willingness to roll-up sleeves.

• Demonstrated ability to build and lead a team, set priorities, and deliver results.

About Us

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.

Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

We live and breathe our company values:

We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.

We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.

We trust each other and assume good intentions - We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer:

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.

• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).

• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.

• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.

• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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