Infoblox

Director, Finance - Sales Finance & Public Company Readiness

Infoblox • $159K — $244K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in sales finance, FP&A, forecasting, and expense management in a tech/SaaS environment
  • Current public-company experience, ideally in sales finance, with knowledge of IPO readiness and compliance
  • Expertise in bookings accuracy, consolidation, and commissions processes
  • Experience in M&A integration and cross-functional business partnerships
  • Strong communication and presentation skills for board-level reporting
  • Proven ability to build trusted partnerships and influence decisions
  • Experience leading and developing teams while managing multiple priorities
  • Advanced Excel skills; familiarity with Salesforce, Tableau, Databricks, SQL, and Anaplan preferred
  • Experience using AI tools for financial modeling and reporting

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a strategic finance partner to Sales Finance and sales leadership
  • Drive IPO readiness by enhancing sales-finance processes and compliance
  • Lead core FP&A for Sales Finance, including long-range planning and forecasting
  • Manage WWFO OpEx and headcount budgets, analyzing performance and variances
  • Ensure monthly bookings accuracy and provide insights to Sales Finance leadership
  • Deliver operational and board-level reporting for informed decision-making
  • Support M&A integration and incorporation of acquired businesses
  • Collaborate with various teams including Customer Support and Rev Ops
  • Lead and mentor a team of financial analysts
  • Utilize AI tools to improve planning and forecasting accuracy

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage, generous PTO, and flexible work options
  • Learning opportunities and career-mobility programs
  • Sixteen paid volunteer hours annually and a supportive community culture
  • Modern offices with amenities like EV charging and healthy snacks
  • Charitable Giving Program with company match
  • Pay transparency and performance-based rewards
Full Job Description
Job Description

Director, Finance - Sales Finance & Public Company Readiness

We have an opportunity for a Director, Finance to join our Finance team, based anywhere in the US, reporting to the VP, Finance. In this pivotal role, you will lead Sales Finance's core FP&A, public-company readiness, bookings governance, executive reporting, and M&A integration efforts. Collaborating closely with Sales/Worldwide Field Operations (WWFO), Finance, Customer Support, Professional Services, COE teams, and Rev Ops, you will shape data-driven decisions, strengthen processes and controls, support current and future acquisitions, and lead a geographically dispersed finance team in a highly collaborative environment.

Be a Contributor - What You'll Do
  • Serve as a strategic finance partner to Sales Finance, WWFO, and sales leadership to support growth and transformation goals
  • Help drive IPO readiness by strengthening sales-finance processes, controls, audit support, and compliance across commissions, bookings, and related areas
  • Lead core FP&A for Sales Finance, including long-range planning, forecasting, expense planning, and consolidation of geographic and regional forecasts
  • Own WWFO OpEx and headcount budgets, monitor performance, analyze variances, and recommend actions to WWFO and Finance leadership
  • Own monthly bookings accuracy, consolidation, reconciliation, and close, providing trend analysis and insights to Sales Finance leadership and the CRO
  • Build and deliver operational, KPI, board-level, and e-staff reporting that enables informed decisions across Sales and Finance
  • Serve as the primary finance business partner for current and future M&A, supporting integration and incorporation of acquired businesses into the operating model
  • Partner with Customer Support, Professional Services, and Sales center of excellence teams, including Channels, hyperscalers, GSIs, Security, and Rev Ops
  • Lead, develop, and mentor a team of financial analysts
  • Use AI-enabled tools to build models and agents that improve planning and forecast accuracy, bookings and expense reconciliation, analysis, and executive presentations

Be Prepared - What You Bring
  • 12+ years of relevant experience in sales finance, FP&A, forecasting, long-range planning, and expense management within a technology/SaaS company
  • Current public-company experience, ideally in sales finance; familiarity with IPO readiness, controls, audit, and compliance preferred
  • Experience with bookings accuracy, consolidation, reconciliation, and commissions-related processes
  • M&A integration and business partnership experience supporting acquired organizations and cross-functional teams
  • Excellent writing, communication, and presentation skills, including board-level reporting
  • Ability to build trusted partnerships with sales leaders, resolve issues quickly, and influence decisions with sound judgment and integrity
  • Experience leading and developing a team while managing multiple priorities and deadlines
  • Advanced Excel skills and experience with Salesforce are required; experience with Tableau, Databricks, SQL, and Anaplan is preferred
  • Experience using AI tools (e.g. Glean, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) to build models and agents, improve planning and forecast accuracy, reconcile bookings and expenses, and create executive-ready presentations

Be Successful - Your Path

First 90 Days: Immerse in our culture, connect with mentors (Blox Buddies), and map the systems and meet with key stakeholders that rely on your work. Discuss and create short/long term goals.

Six Months:
  • Own WWFO and Sales Finance OpEx and headcount management, consolidating geographic and regional forecasts and presenting variance analysis and recommendations to WWFO and Finance leadership
  • Establish reliable bookings, KPI, and metrics reporting, including monthly reconciliation and close, with actionable insights for Sales leadership, the CRO, and Finance
  • Build operating relationships across M&A integration, Customer Support, Professional Services, Sales center of excellence, Rev Ops, and IPO-readiness workstreams while applying AI-enabled tools to planning and reporting

One Year:
  • Lead the WWFO and Sales Finance annual and long-range planning and forecasting processes, including OpEx, headcount, and geographic expense consolidation
  • Be a trusted owner of bookings accuracy, reconciliation, and board and e-staff reporting, delivering timely insights that support decision-making
  • Drive measurable progress on IPO-readiness processes, controls, audit support, and M&A integration for current and future acquisitions
  • Be recognized as a strategic finance business partner across Sales, COGS, Sales center of excellence, and Rev Ops teams while leading and mentoring the distributed finance team

Belong- Your Community

Our culture thrives on inclusion, rewarding the bold ideas, curiosity, and creativity that move us forward. In a community where every voice counts, continuous learning is the norm. So, whether you code, create, sell, or care for customers, you'll grow and belong here.

Be Rewarded - Benefits That Help You Grow, Thrive, Belong
  • Comprehensive health coverage, generous PTO, and flexible work options
  • Learning opportunities, career-mobility programs, and leadership workshops
  • Sixteen paid volunteer hours each year, global employee resource groups, and a "No Jerks" policy that keeps collaboration healthy
  • Modern offices with EV charging, healthy snacks (and the occasional cupcake), plus hackathons, game nights, and culture celebrations
  • Charitable Giving Program supported by Company Match
  • We practice pay transparency and reward performance. Offers reflect role location, internal equity, experience, skills, education, and certifications. Base salary for this position: $159,000 - $244,860 plus corporate bonus potential

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About Infoblox

Infoblox delivers Secure Cloud-Managed Network Services, bringing next-level security, reliability and automation to cloud and hybrid systems, managed through a single pane of glass. Infoblox has 8,000 customers, including 350 of the Fortune 500, and claims to be the market leader in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI). Infoblox solutions help businesses automate complex network control functions to reduce costs, increase security and maximize uptime. Infoblox is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and has operations in over 25 countries.
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2015

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