Call or text 262-893-1523 or email marc@mdmrecruitingllc.com.
I place finance and accounting professionals at technology and software companies across Wisconsin and northern Illinois. SaaS and software firms, IT and managed services providers, and the growing tech companies coming out of Madison, Milwaukee, and the corridor between them. Tech finance runs on metrics most industries never track, and these companies need people who actually speak that language.
Software accounting has its own vocabulary. Recurring revenue, deferred revenue, and revenue recognition under ASC 606 shape the whole picture, and the metrics that matter, ARR, churn, and burn, are not on a standard chart of accounts. A finance hire who has never worked in a subscription business can miss what actually drives the numbers.
Why hiring finance talent for tech is different
The revenue model changes everything. You are recognizing subscription revenue over time, managing deferred revenue schedules, and living inside ASC 606. On top of that, leadership runs the business on metrics a traditional accountant may never have touched, from ARR and net revenue retention to CAC payback and gross margin by product. Finance people who have lived in software think in recurring revenue and unit economics, and you can tell quickly who really has.
There is also the growth and cash dimension. Many tech companies are investing ahead of profit, which puts burn rate, runway, and R&D capitalization front and center. I screen for finance people who can hold both the GAAP rigor and the operating metrics a tech leadership team actually uses to steer.
What tech companies in this region need
Southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois have a real and growing technology base, from established software and IT services firms to venture and bootstrap funded startups scaling out of Madison and Milwaukee. Some have mature finance functions fluent in SaaS metrics, others are founder led companies bringing on their first serious finance hire.
Whether you are a SaaS company that needs a controller who knows ASC 606, a software firm building out FP&A around ARR and retention, or an IT services provider tightening its margins, the pattern holds. You need finance people who understand recurring revenue, deferred revenue, and the metrics that run a tech business.
The roles I fill in tech
The seats I recruit for map directly into a technology setting. Controllers and assistant controllers who own revenue recognition and deferred revenue. CFOs and VPs of Finance who can manage burn, runway, and a board or investors. FP&A analysts who can model ARR, churn, and unit economics. Senior and staff accountants who keep a clean, audit ready set of books through fast growth. Each search is built around your revenue model and stage.
The kind of hire this matters for
This matters most when the numbers investors and the board watch are subscription metrics, not just the P&L. A finance leader who does not understand recurring revenue or burn can steer you wrong at the worst time. When you need a hire who knows SaaS accounting and the metrics behind it, that is the search I am built for.
Hiring finance talent for a tech company? Let’s talk about it.
Tell me about the company and the role, and I will tell you honestly whether I can help and what a realistic search looks like. No pressure and no obligation.
Call or text 262-893-1523 or email marc@mdmrecruitingllc.com.