Strategic Account Executive
Overview
This role offers the chance to sell PowerPlan's AI-powered tax and accounting software to the office of the CFO at some of the world's largest asset-intensive companies โ helping them generate more cash, mitigate compliance risk, and build a culture of cost management. As a Strategic Account Executive, you will own the full enterprise sales cycle across a concentrated portfolio of 10 to 12 strategic accounts, with two parallel mandates: converting PowerPlan's existing on-premise customers to SaaS, and winning net-new enterprise logos across Utilities, Oil and Gas, Telecom, Mining, and Rail.
This is a highly consultative, complex enterprise sale โ typically multi-stakeholder, 18 months or longer, and seven figures. You will apply MEDDICC discipline throughout the sales cycle, operate as a trusted advisor to C-level buyers, and build a territory presence that positions PowerPlan before a formal evaluation begins. The right candidate teaches customers a better way of doing business โ and closes deals that prove it.
COMPANY
PowerPlan improves financial outcomes through AI-powered tax and accounting software. We are more than a point solution โ we are a powerful system that enables asset-intensive companies to overcome their most complex financial challenges. Our first-of-its-kind platform seamlessly complements EAMs and ERPs, providing a single source of truth for every financial asset across its lifecycle โ supporting the rate-making process, validating regulatory requirements, and ensuring financial success. Today, more than 150 asset-intensive companies across Utilities, Oil and Gas, Telecom, Mining, and Rail rely on PowerPlan.
Responsibilities
KEY PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES (First 12โ18 Months)
OBJECTIVE 1: Build a High-Quality Pipeline Across 10โ12 Strategic Accounts (First 90 Days)
Outcome:
Within the first 90 days, develop a structured, MEDDICC-informed territory plan and an active pipeline of qualified opportunities across your concentrated portfolio of 10 to 12 strategic accounts. Map buying centers, identify key economic buyers and champions, and establish PowerPlan's presence early enough to shape each account's evaluation philosophy before competitors engage. For existing on-premise accounts, develop a clear view of conversion readiness and build the migration business case for the highest-priority targets.
Impact:
Enterprise sales cycles run 18 months or longer. A Strategic Account Executive who invests in territory intelligence, account entry timing, and early pipeline construction creates a structural advantage that compounds across the year. Pipeline quality at 90 days predicts bookings at 18 months โ and in a concentrated account model, every account matters.
How:
Leverage CRM data, industry research, regulatory filings, and direct networking to build account intelligence. Apply MEDDICC to qualify opportunities before investing significant time. Map multi-level stakeholder networks at each target account. Establish substantive conversations โ not just awareness โ with economic buyers and champions before a formal need is articulated. For on-premise accounts, engage early on SaaS migration value and timing.
OBJECTIVE 2: Lead SaaS Conversion of Existing On-Premise Customers (Ongoing)
Outcome:
Own the commercial, technical, and change-management dimensions of converting existing PowerPlan on-premise customers to SaaS within your account portfolio. Build a compelling, quantified migration business case for each target account. Navigate the unique considerations of SaaS transitions โ pricing model changes, implementation timelines, organizational readiness, and stakeholder alignment โ and drive each conversion to a signed agreement.
Impact:
SaaS conversion is a central growth driver for PowerPlan. Existing on-premise customers represent a high-value, relationship-established pipeline โ but converting them requires a different motion than new logo selling. A Strategic Account Executive who exe