Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Denver, Colorado, United States · Hybrid

• At Extend, we help B2B companies collect cash faster with less manual effort. No more manual emails, Post-it notes, Outlook reminders, and reminders from your CFO.
• B2B SaaS finance and accounting teams automate laborious, uncoordinated workflows around account receivables and payment collections. Put your cash collections on auto-pilot and free up staff time.

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

Aug 2020 – Mar 2021 · 7 mos · Centennial, Colorado, United States

Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · Centennial, Colorado, United States

• The top online and in-person academy teaching SaaS finance and metrics. 3,000+ companies and 15,000+ students enrolled. Join our SaaS community!

Apr 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 11 mos · Centennial, Colorado, United States

• The top source for SaaS metrics, finance, and accounting education and templates. The SaaS CFO also offers fractional SaaS CFO services and coaching.
• Ben's SaaS templates have been downloaded 100,000+ times and counting.

Aug 2013 – Aug 2020 · 7 yrs · Dubuque, IA · On-site

• Revamped the finance and accounting function for a successful exit to private equity.

Oct 2012 – Jul 2013 · 9 mos · Memphis, TN

• Provided finance and operational leadership to US subsidiary of German-based RIB Group – a leading global provider of ERP software solutions to the construction industry. Responsibilities include all aspects of finance, accounting, tax, treasury, human resources, research and development, services, and support. Hired to bring structure and process improvements to functional areas and execute US and Canadian expansion plan.

Jun 2008 – Oct 2012 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Memphis, TN

• While Director of FP&A at Pinnacle Airlines Corp., Ben implemented an improved FP&A structure and process to support a rapidly growing organization. Within his first year, he sourced and implemented a new planning and reporting system to move away from an offline, Excel-based system. Through this technology and process redesign, his team reduced Pinnacle’s annual budget season from three to two month and introduced a detailed, monthly forecasting package. Other improvements included new management performance reporting through monthly close packages, leading to earlier corrective action of operating variances. With better data and analysis, his team created a new cost and revenue allocation system to determine profitability by product line and a more sophisticated process to bid on RFP’s. Ben also developed Pinnacle’s first external finance training course in partnership with the University of Memphis.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 · 0 mo · Atlanta, GA

• As the first financial planning and analysis hire, Ben created many "firsts." This included a weekly revenue forecast for the CEO using bookings data while applying software revenue recognition standards and a complex financial statement forecasting model. Ben partnered with product managers on investment decision analysis and product pricing reviews to align R&D and related operating expenses with projected product revenues. He also decoded customer pricing plans from a previously off-shored process.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 · 4 yrs · Alpharetta, GA

• In the software division of a Fortune 20 company, Ben partnered with general managers and their executive teams to provide overall financial leadership and operational support to four software business units. This included budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, pricing, and monthly variance analysis. In support of the general managers, Ben created new financial insights into the businesses. He developed the first product P&L which assigned appropriate revenues and costs to each product line through a cost allocation model. Based on this new information, he designed a new, recurring pricing model that was later adopted at the corporate level. Each business unit presented unique challenges based on their business life cycle with some in the high-growth, start-up phase that required extensive analysis of sales and marketing to mature, market leaders that required strategic analysis around maintaining competitive advantages.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr · Phoenix, Arizona

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs · Tempe, Arizona

Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr

Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr

Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr