Director, FP&A
Reports to: Chief Financial Officer
Location: San Jose, CA, Tampa, FL, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX, Pittsburg, PA (open to remote w/ travel)
Travel: Occasional to other office locations
ABOUT LYNX
Lynx Software Technologies (Lynx), an OceanSound Partners portfolio company, is a mission-critical solutions provider primarily for Aerospace and Defense customers. Lynx aims to enhance the economics for customers and ecosystem partners, facilitating the design, development, deployment, and service of high-assurance edge applications through innovative and modular open standards-based solutions. As part of its growth strategy, including recent acquisitions of Timesys (a Linux leader in the embedded space), Thompson Software Solutions (specializing in leading-edge technologies supporting defense projects) and CoreAVI (GPU Technology Solutions), Lynx is seeking a dynamic, strategic, and hands-on FP&A leader to steer our operational efforts to ensure our business can deliver results at scale.
Why Join Us?
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment focused on innovation and excellence.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package, with opportunities for professional growth and development.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Director, FP&A is a key member of the Lynx finance team and is responsible for overseeing the financial planning, analysis, and reporting functions for Lynx and its affiliated companies. Working closely with the Chief Financial Officer, FP&A Manager, Private Equity team and other functional leaders across go-to-market, delivery, R&D, HR, and other support functions. The Director, FP&A executes critical financial processes including weekly revenue forecasting, monthly financial reporting and analysis, annual planning and budgeting, forecasting, and KPI tracking and reporting. This position will play an integral role in helping Lynx achieve its strategic goals by leveraging Lynx’s business applications to improve operational visibility and business intelligence and contributing to merger & acquisition activities.
Responsibilities:
The Director, FP&A’s duties include but are not limited to the following:
• Develop a monthly and weekly cadence for various forecasts and financial performance reports
• Communicate performance and budgets with business leaders
• Prepare monthly financial reporting packages for management and external stakeholders
• Play an integral finance role with the company’s merger & acquisition activities, managing the consolidation of financials and modeling
• Execute the development of Lynx’s annual budget and periodic forecasts; manage these processes and support stakeholder participation and engagement to meet planning deadlines
• Evaluate vendors and oversee the implementation of the company’s financial planning and reporting software application in Netsuite; ensure users are trained to use the application effectively
• Perform analysis of key business data and drivers, present findings and provide recommendations
• Update weekly revenue forecast, identifying changes in assumptions or opportunities
• Prepare financial slides for quarterly board deck
• Implement Quarterly Business Review process between FP&A team and executive management team
• Work closely with the Sales & Product teams to analyze operational performance and trends
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis to support data-driven business decisions
• Participate in merger & acquisition activities, including due diligence, financial modeling, and integration
• Participate in the annual commission planning process and implementing commission tool integrated with Netsuite and Salesforce
• Participate in the determination of Professional Services consulting rates for government contracts – for both cost-plus models and commercial models
Qualifications and Requirements:
• 8–12 years of progressive experience in FP&A or corporate finance, with a track record of success in high-growth or PE-backed environments
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA, CPA, or CFA a plus.
• Private Equity backed company and M&A experience preferred
• Prior experience owning the full planning cycle and partnering directly with executive leadership; experience building or leading a team is a plus
• Expert-level proficiency in Workday Adaptive Planning — including model building and reporting.
• Advanced Excel skills — you’re fluent in complex formulas, dynamic modeling, and Excel-based automation.
• Experience working with NetSuite for financial reporting, data integrity, or integrations with planning tools (Adaptive Planning a plus)
• Strong communication skills — able to present insights clearly and confidently to senior leadership.
• Comfortable working in a lean, fast-moving environment and balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights.
• Demonstrated experience building complex financial models and providing financial analysis; very strong Excel skills are required
• Attention to detail and ability to maintain accuracy while working with large datasets
• Ability to work cross-functionally with other teams in a remote environment
• Ability to work to deadlines with quick turnarounds
• Demonstrated experience executing budgeting and forecasting processes, working cross-functionally with key stakeholders
• Experience presenting and communicating at the senior leadership level
• Experience with consolidations, foreign subsidiaries and multiple entities is required
• Practical hands-on experience in a fast-paced, rapidly growing, and evolving business environment
• Experience in software industry, professional services businesses or government subcontracts is a plus
Benefits:
• 401(k) matching
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account(s)
• Life & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Responsible PTO policy
• Flexibility to work remotely
Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We base our employment decisions entirely on business needs, job requirements, and qualifications—We have zero tolerance for any kind of discrimination, and we are looking for candidates who share those values. Here at Lynx, it is our mission to create and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, no matter what an employee's: Ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical ability, religion, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, national origin, veteran status thus providing a positive work employee experience.
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What We Do
For over thirty years, Lynx Software Technologies has helped customers with some of the most demanding, mission critical, system requirements to create, certify, and deploy equipment, above, on and below the surface of the earth..
Lynx for the Internet of Things (IoT):
As billions of ‘things’ are connected to the internet, a new paradigm of security is required. Lynx offers real-time military-grade security products to protect the edge, the gateway and cloud devices while protecting any sensitive data as it traverses the IoT. Key Markets: Automotive, Industrial, Factory Automation, Medical and Transportation. Our LYNX MOSA.ic software framework and LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor provide a secure foundation for this new generation of connected platforms.
Lynx for Enterprise Cyber Security:
To fight modern day malicious threats, security needs to be built-in rather than implemented as an afterthought. Lynx offers isolation technology that can be implemented in endpoint and cloud deployments to separate and protect critical enterprise infrastructure. This isolation technology separates sensitive information from the key attack points and denies infiltration and exfiltration attempts.
Lynx for Aerospace & Defense:
Lynx provides certified avionics RTOS solutions based on open standards such as POSIX, ARINC and FACE that allow reusability of certified code and systems. The FAA Reusable Software Component (RSC) has been issued to LynxOS-178. The LynxOS 7.0 RTOS and LynxSecure separation kernel technologies were designed to provide the highest levels of security without compromising performance and real-time determinism.
