VP of Finance

SE Ranking is a profitable, global SaaS company helping businesses, agencies, and marketing teams improve their visibility across Search, AI Search, and Social. We serve customers worldwide, operate as a remote-first organization, and are entering our next stage of growth as we evolve into an AI-native, multi-product platform.

We are looking for a VP Finance to join our leadership team and become the CEO’s partner on financial planning, business performance, capital allocation, long-term value creation, and leadership of the company’s Finance and Legal functions.

The Opportunity

SE Ranking has built a meaningful, growing SaaS business. As we continue scaling and evolving into an AI-native, multi-product platform, finance must evolve from a reporting function into a strategic operating function.

We are looking for a finance leader who can help shape company strategy, improve decision-making, strengthen planning and forecasting, and build the financial capabilities required for our next stage of growth.

This is the senior finance leadership role at SE Ranking. The successful candidate will lead the Finance function, serve as a key member of the leadership team, and help build the capabilities, team, and operating discipline required to support a significantly larger and more complex business.

We are looking for someone with the ambition and capability to lead Finance at SE Ranking for the long term and play a meaningful role in shaping the company’s future.

This role is not about maintaining the status quo. It is about helping leadership answer questions such as:

Where should we invest for the highest long-term return?

How should we balance growth and profitability?

How do we allocate resources across products, markets, and initiatives?

What financial outcomes should we expect from major business decisions?

How do we build a company capable of operating successfully at significantly greater scale?

The VP Finance will report directly to the CEO and serve as a member of the leadership team.

What You'll Own

Business Performance, Planning & Decision Support

Partner with the CEO, Board, and leadership team on long-term value creation

Build multi-year financial plans, forecasts, and scenario models to support growth, profitability, and investment decisions

Support long-term planning, capital allocation decisions, and evaluation of future growth opportunities

Help leadership evaluate pricing, retention, expansion, product investments, and resource allocation decisions

Analyze growth investments, efficiency initiatives, and business trade-offs

Improve visibility into business performance through SaaS metrics, forecasting, and operating reviews

Drive planning processes across revenue, headcount, operating expenses, profitability, and resource allocation

Turn financial and operational data into actionable insights that improve decision-making across the business

Executive, Board & Stakeholder Partnership

Serve as a trusted finance partner to the CEO, Board, lenders, investors, auditors, and other external stakeholders

Develop board-quality reporting and financial storytelling

Provide leadership with clear, actionable insights into business performance and financial outcomes

Build confidence and credibility around the company’s planning, reporting, and decision-making capabilities

Support financing, strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and other corporate development opportunities as they arise

Help ensure the company maintains the reporting quality, governance, and operational readiness expected by increasingly sophisticated stakeholders

Finance & Legal Leadership

Build and lead high-performing Finance and Legal organizations capable of supporting the company through its next stage of growth and increasing operational complexity

Build, develop, and retain strong teams across Finance and Legal, creating a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement

Provide leadership and direction across accounting, financial operations, planning, reporting, legal, governance, and business partnership functions

Create the operating cadence, accountability, and management processes required for high-performing Finance and Legal teams

Build the finance foundation required for SE Ranking’s next stage, including GAAP-quality reporting, audit readiness, close cadence, multi-entity consolidation, revenue recognition discipline, controls, and scalable finance systems

Lead the modernization of finance systems and infrastructure, including the transition from QuickBooks to NetSuite or an equivalent ERP platform

Ensure strong governance, compliance, risk management, and operational discipline across the organization

Establish the financial capabilities, reporting discipline, and operational rigor expected of a category-leading SaaS company

Ensure the Finance and Legal functions can support a significantly larger and more complex business than we are today

What We're Looking For

Required

Experience leading finance within a SaaS business, ideally between $20M and $100M ARR

Strong background across FP&A, business performance, financial leadership, and finance operations

Proven experience building or materially upgrading a finance function

Deep understanding of SaaS metrics, recurring revenue models, forecasting, unit economics, and capital allocation

Experience developing multi-year operating plans and supporting executive decision-making

Ability to connect company strategy with financial outcomes and operational execution

Experience partnering with CEOs, leadership teams, Boards, lenders, investors, or private equity stakeholders

Strong executive presence and communication skills

Ability to operate as both a strategic leader and hands-on builder

Experience leading teams and developing future leaders

Experience working in multi-entity, international environments

Comfortable operating in a remote-first, globally distributed organization

Preferred

CPA or equivalent professional qualification

Experience in PE-backed, VC-backed, or founder-led SaaS businesses

Experience with audit readiness, financial governance, and finance transformation initiatives

Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, financing activities, or strategic transactions

Experience scaling finance organizations through periods of rapid growth and increasing complexity

Experience overseeing legal, compliance, governance, or other corporate functions

Strong interest in automation, AI, and modern finance systems

Success in This Role

Within the first 12–18 months, success would include:

Reliable forecasting, planning, and operating review processes that improve company decision-making

Strong visibility into growth, profitability, efficiency, and investment performance

Increased confidence from the Board, lenders, investors, auditors, and leadership team

Improved financial discipline around resource allocation and investment decisions

Successful modernization of finance systems and reporting infrastructure

A Finance and Legal organization that is both operationally excellent and strategically influential

Financial capabilities, governance, and reporting quality that support the company’s next stage of growth and complexity

Why Join SE Ranking

This is an opportunity to become the senior finance leader of a profitable, growing SaaS company with global reach, strong fundamentals, and significant ambition.

You will work directly with the CEO and Board, help shape the company’s future, and build Finance and Legal functions that play a central role in strategy, execution, governance, and long-term value creation.

For the right candidate, this role offers significant ownership, executive visibility, and the opportunity to build and lead a world-class Finance organization as SE Ranking continues to scale.