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, MasterCard, Siemens, and T‑Mobile.

Why You Should Apply

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.

The Impact You Will Have

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.

What You Will Do Daily

• 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

R&D Economics & Cloud

• 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 FinOps strategy, building frameworks to forecast, optimise, and map LLM/AWS/GCP/Azure costs to product unit economics

G&A Optimization & Spend Governance

• 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

Matrix Leadership & Systems Transformation

• 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

The Experience You Will Need

• 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 modeling
• Systems: elite Excel skills are mandatory. Experience implementing or operating in modern planning tools (Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive) is a major plus
• A proactive, adaptable mindset, with the ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic, and rapidly evolving environment
• Active user of AI tools, with specific knowledge of how to apply within finance workstreams

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA from a top‑tier program
• Investment banking experience
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise‑level planning software (e.g., NetSuite and HRIS systems such as BambooHR)

Why You Will Love It Here

• Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again)
• Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains
• We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in‑office and 2 days work‑from‑home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely
• We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever‑changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we’re happy to help our team acquire them
• As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members
• We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization

Benefits of Working with Sonar

• Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package
• We encourage usage of our robust time‑off allocations. You will receive 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro‑rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays
• We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation
• Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities
• We have an annual kick‑off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company
• Monthly catered events, and team events

We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Important Information

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third‑party recruiters will not be considered.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.