September

May 18th, 2022

NO TRAVEL NEEDED

NO TRAVEL NEEDED

GUEST EXPERTS

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

LEARN & NETWORK

LEARN & NETWORK

About the Modern SaaS Finance Leaders Forum

Join fellow fast-growth SaaS finance leaders, including industry experts from The SaaS CFO and KeyBanc Capital Markets, in this exclusive event to participate in virtual discussions on a modern-tech approach for telling your story to investors, being successful in a new finance job, and creating your FinOps Tech Stack. You don’t even have to leave your home or office!

  • For CFOs: How to tell your Story to Investors (with a leading investment bank)
  • For Controllers: How to build your FinOps Tech Stack to scale through the IPO (with The SaaS CFO)
  • For RevOps: How to build the reporting for the 100-Day Growth Plan (with a top private equity firm)
  • For Revenue Teams: 3 Tips to Building Your ASC 606 Revenue Recognition (with expert Tony Sondhi)
  • For Fast Growth Finance Teams: What to do in your first 90 Days as a Finance Leader (with top SaaS Finance community leaders)

Agenda

May 18th, 2022

9:00 – 9:25am PT

How to Tell Your Story to Investors (In a Turbulent Market)

In today’s turbulent market, what do investors want to know? Hear insights from the author of the KeyBanc Capital Markets annual SaaS survey on how to tell your story.

Michael O’Hare

Managing Director, KeyBanc Capital Markets

9:30am – 9:55am PT

How to Hit the Ground Running in Your First 90 Days as a SaaS Finance Leader

The first 90 days in a new job are critical in your learning, your ability to make an impact, and your reputation and alliances you create. Learn from a top finance recruiter, and leader of one of the top SaaS finance communities, on what you should focus upon in a new leadership role.

Tom Kirby

CEO, PrepDD

Jamie Ceglarz

Founder & Managing Director, Guild Talent

10:00am – 10:25am PT

Birds of a Feather Sessions

These are live networking sessions with peers attending the Forum, focused on different stages of company or automation needs.  Please go to Birds of a Feather in the Auditorium to choose a session and meet some new folks with similar interests.    

    • Companies with $3M-$10M in ARR
    • Companies with $10M-$25M in ARR
    • Companies with $25M-$100M or Pre-IPO
    • Subscription billing models
    • Investor metrics
10:30am – 10:55am PT

BREAK

11:00am – 11:25am PT

5 Tips to Build Your Ideal Finance Tech Stack (The SaaS Finance Process Maturity Model)

Scalability and great analysis comes from a thoughtful tech stack architecture, built around your billing and business model. Learn 5 tips on how to plan for your tech stack, gleaned from a survey from 250+ SaaS Finance peers, on how you should build. Doesn’t matter how much you have already done, leverage the worksheet for your plan.

Ben Murray

The SaaS CFO

Ray Rike

CEO, RevOps Squared

11:30am – 11:55am PT

3 Steps to Build Your Revenue Recognition Strategy

Rev rec is always a little tricky. Learn from one of the world’s foremost experts three tips on how to plan your scenarios.

Tony Sondhi

CEO, A.C. Sondhi and Associates

12:00pm – 12:55pm PT

Break – Sponsor Roundtable Discussions

1:00pm – 1:25pm PT

How to Build and Forecast a Usage-Billing Business

Usage or consumption billing models take extra effort to create to capture and increase CMRR. Then, how do you build the dataset to forecast the variability? Hear from a top peer on how they charted this journey.

David Andreasson

VP Finance, Paige.ai

1:30pm – 1:55pm PT

How Finance Prepares for an IPO 

The IPO is a massive milestone for the winners of a market. What is the process maturity lifecycle finance needs to be following to be ready for the predictability and compliance required by investors?

Michael Lister

Leader, PwC InsightsOfficer

2:00pm – 2:25pm PT

How to Cut the Close to Build a Faster, Better FP&A Package

How Controllers can leverage automation to cut the close for accurate forecasting for big decision making on fundraising and growth.

Michael Chernoff

VP Finance, Hypori

Michael Munroe

CFO, ViaFoura

Sponsors

Frequently Asked Questions

This event is complimentary.
This is a virtual event.
Yes, they will be available for on-demand viewing.
Software and SaaS CFOs, Controllers, RevOps, Revenue Teams, Fast Growth Finance Teams
Yes, chat (Q&A) will be available during the sessions.
Yes, live discussions with our sponsors will be available via Zoom links during the networking break. You will also have the ability to chat with the sponsors in their booths in the exhibit hall.
Yes, Sage Intacct representatives will be available in our booth in the exhibit hall throughout the event.