Finance Director

Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers’ productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies.

Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, Master Card, Siemens, and T‑Mobile.

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers.

With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

We are seeking a highly motivated Finance Director to join our FP&A team. This critical role will be responsible for overseeing various aspects within FP&A, including long‑range planning, business analytics, and business partnership.

• Strategic Business Partnering & Execution
• Serve as the primary financial advisor to the R&D and G&A executive leaders
• Act as a senior “player” — building complex, scalable financial models from scratch while translating R&D and G&A roadmaps back to the Corporate Long‑Range Plan (LRP)
• Drive the annual planning and monthly forecasting cycles for all R&D and G&A functions, providing executive‑level variance analysis and actionable insights directly to the C‑suite
• Develop and maintain complex financial models across all lines of the P&L to support strategic initiatives, new business opportunities, and scenario planning
• Support BOD, Investor, Executive‑ready presentations, succinctly delivering key messages, and providing in‑depth supporting details

• Own the financial strategy for a geographically distributed organization, optimizing headcount planning/hiring ratios
• Partner with Accounting and Engineering to track, model, and forecast software capitalization
• Lead the Cloud Fin Ops strategy, building frameworks to forecast, optimise, and map LLM/AWS/GCP/Azure costs to product unit economics

• Provide analytical oversight for a high‑volume G&A environment (IT, Facilities, Legal, HR), identifying operating leverage opportunities to ensure OPEX scales slower than revenue
• Streamline the PR approval and vendor management workflows, while maintaining strict spend control

• Lead, mentor, and orchestrate the day‑to‑day priorities of shared FP&A analysts through dotted‑line relationships. Drive execution and high‑quality output through influence rather than direct reporting authority
• Roll up your sleeves as the business lead for R&D/G&A during our system migration. Lead the evolution of our FP&A capabilities by driving initiatives to enhance automation, efficiency, and data‑driven insights within the finance function

• 10+ years of progressive experience in finance, preferably with significant time spent in a high‑growth SaaS or tech environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field
• Expert‑level financial modeling skills with the ability to build sophisticated, flexible, and accurate models from the ground up
• Proven ability to communicate and present complex financial concepts and recommendations clearly to executive‑level stakeholders
• Deep expertise across core FP&A functions, including corporate finance, strategic planning, budgeting, and variance analysis
• Technical depth: deep understanding of software capitalization rules, cloud infrastructure economics, and complex headcount…