Job Purpose:
The Principal, Finance Business Partner (GTM Finance) plays a critical role within the Corporate FP&A organization, serving as the primary Finance business partner to the Go-To-Market (GTM) and Sales organization. This role owns the end-to-end Revenue and Bookings forecasting process, delivering granular, highly accurate financial models that serve as the foundational input to the company's ARR, billings, and cash forecasts.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in SaaS/subscription revenue modeling, strong business partnering skills, and the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment, while influencing senior stakeholders across Finance, Sales, and Strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
Revenue & Bookings Forecasting
Own and maintain the company's revenue and bookings forecast model, including regular updates for actuals, ensuring a single source of truth across renewal, ARR, bookings, and cash forecasting workstreams
Build and maintain granular revenue forecasts by product, customer segment, geography, and revenue type
Model and maintain forecast components including:
New Bookings & Expansion — in partnership with GTM Sales Finance
Price Increase — tracking contractual and market-driven uplift
Churn & Gross Retention — by product and segment
Perpetual-to-Subscription/SaaS Conversions — modeling conversion pipelines and revenue ramp
Billings & Collections Forecast — ensuring alignment between revenue and cash timing
Ensure the revenue forecast integrates seamlessly into the ARR forecast and broader FP&A planning cycles
Budget vs. Actuals (BvA) & Variance Analysis
Lead the monthly Budget vs. Actuals (BvA) process for revenue and bookings, including preparation of variance commentary and executive-ready reporting packages
Build and maintain a revenue forecast bridge, clearly articulating period-over-period and plan-over-plan movements across key drivers (cohort, price, product, churn, conversion)
Partner with Accounting and Revenue Recognition teams to ensure forecast assumptions are aligned with actual reported results
Financial Planning & Broader FP&A Support
Contribute to company-wide planning cycles including annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning (LRP)
Maintain and enhance driver-based revenue models to support scenario planning, sensitivity analyses, and strategic initiative evaluations
Assist in preparing board-level and executive presentations with accurate and insightful revenue and bookings narratives
Collaborate with the broader FP&A team to ensure consistency and integrity of financial data across functions
Financial Systems & Process Improvement
Build, enhance, and maintain revenue models in Excel and enterprise planning tools (Pigment)
Leverage BI tools (Tableau, Power BI) to create revenue dashboards, automate reporting, and improve forecast visibility for stakeholders
Partner with Sales Operations and IT to improve data flows between CRM (Salesforce), billing systems, and financial planning tools
Proactively identify opportunities to streamline and scale forecasting and reporting processes
Utilizes AI-enabled tools (e.g., chatbots, document automation, analytics assistants) to improve efficiency, accuracy, and streamline routine tasks while following company AI governance and data privacy standards
ABOUT OUR PLATFORM
Tungsten Automation's Intelligent Automation software platform helps government agencies transform information-intensive business processes, reduce manual work and errors, minimize costs, and improve customer engagement. We combine Generative AI, Knowledge Management, Intelligent Document Processing, Process Orchestration, mobility and engagement, and analytics to ease implementations and deliver dramatic results that mitigate compliance risk and increase competitiveness, growth and profitability—particularly crucial for highly regulated industries facing complex compliance requirements. No other software vendor offers a platform of complementary technologies integrated into a scalable, manageable software platform, positioning us to grow and dominate the process automation space.
While the job description describes what is anticipated as the requirements of the position, the job requirements are subject to change based upon any changing needs and requirements of the business.