[Hiring] VP, Strategic Finance @Emergence Software

Role Description

This is a VP role on a small, high-ownership team reporting to the operating partners in Emergence Automotive and the Head of Strategic Finance. The center of gravity is operating finance:

• Working directly with portfolio company CEOs and leadership teams to understand performance.
• Improving decision-making and allocating capital.
• Building stronger software businesses.

You will be close to real operating questions, including:

• What is working?
• What is not?
• Where growth is coming from?
• Where margin is hiding?
• What the business should do next?

M&A is also a meaningful part of the job:

• Strong modeling judgment.
• Comfort with diligence and downside-case discipline.
• Combination models/forecasts.
• Clear view on whether a deal creates value after it closes.

The best person for this seat can:

• Move easily between the boardroom and the operating cadence.
• Sit with a CEO and unpack retention, sales productivity, cash conversion, or pricing.
• Step back and ask whether to buy, build, integrate, finance, or change course.

We are looking for a strategic thought partner who can:

• Handle individual output like an analyst but with judgment, clarity, and a point of view.

Qualifications

• 3 to 10+ years of relevant experience across strategic finance, operating finance, corporate development, investing, investment banking, FP&A, or accounting with a commercial finance arc.
• Strong financial modeling ability and comfort owning operating models end to end.
• Experience with acquisition, merger, or mergerco models is a strong plus.
• Strong writing and communication skills.

Requirements

• Ability to lead a room and work directly with senior stakeholders.
• Move quickly without heavy process.
• Connect analysis to real decisions.
• Bring structure without bureaucracy and intensity without ego.

Benefits

• Compensation: $200,000 to $375,000, depending on years of experience.

Company Description

Emergence Automotive is the AutoTech portfolio within Emergence, a thematic holding company backed by The Pritzker Organization. We buy and build category-defining software businesses in and around the car business:

• Vehicle acquisition.
• Inventory management.
• Dealer workflow.
• The tools operators rely on every day.

Emergence is not a passive investment platform and not a traditional Private Equity Fund. We work closely as an embedded team with our companies and continue to build the platform through acquisitions and organic growth initiatives inside the vertical.

Today the automotive portfolio represents more than $35 million of ARR across several businesses, with a live M&A pipeline that is active and accelerating.

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