Today, software as a service (SaaS) businesses are popular with investors, lenders and customers. Many software companies have transmuted their pricing models from perpetual license models to subscription models. Finance business partners are important in subscription environments. In this article, you will find sample questions an FP&A business partner can help answer to accelerate the growth trajectory in a SaaS enterprise.
Emmanuel Jibodu
Emmanuel sees planning, analytics and forecasting as “more about processes and people” believing that the best planning and forecasting results from a drive to understand every aspect of how a business runs – business model and how value is created for customers. Emmanuel possesses diverse experience in strategic finance planning, analytics, mergers/acquisitions and corporate finance.
He is passionate about building FP&A teams that deploy lateral thinking to solve problems for organizations that are looking to accelerate their growth trajectory. His career experience entails adding value in publicly traded Canadian high growth software (SaaS) companies and staid industries – such as manufacturing and environmental services. He possesses an accounting degree from the Schulich School of Business at York University and an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University.
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