Strategic Finance Senior Analyst

August 28

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Description

• Serve as our first strategic finance hire and play a central role in defining how this function works and partners with stakeholders across the business. • Build operational / financial models to analyze the business impact or ROI of key company initiatives, helping us evaluate tradeoffs between driving growth and profitability. • Own and improve our ARR forecasting model for our subscription and usage-based products, while working closely with our revenue operations team to accurately predict business performance and influence investment decisions. • Research and identify primary KPIs to define what operational excellence looks like across different functions within the business. • Work with functional leaders to implement KPI tracking and advise on opportunities to strengthen execution. • Conduct ad-hoc analysis of business trends in partnership with our revenue operations team to identify and articulate key drivers for stakeholders. • Assess the impact of product, marketing or sales growth initiatives to support the business case for investment, and proactively identify tangential opportunities to further drive growth. • Collect and analyze external financial / operational data, and interpret market trends to deliver benchmarking analysis and influence decision making for key stakeholders, including management and investors. • Assist in consolidating operational and financial information in preparation for our quarterly board of directors meetings.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance, or related field • 5+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or management consulting, with at least 2-4 years of experience in the strategic finance function within a fast-paced / rapidly scaling organization • Experience in SaaS, preferably with a usage-based business model component • Excellent business partnering skills, particularly with non-financial leaders; track record of advising operational and financial improvements across multiple areas in the business • Willingness and ability to operate at multiple levels - deep within the details and big picture - with strong awareness of when to leverage each to achieve a targeted outcome • Advanced modeling skills, including strong understanding of bottoms-up financial modeling and tying together unit economics to the overall business impact • Ability to jump into ambiguous questions or situations, identify the key variables and drive toward a successful outcome • Ability to story-tell with data / analysis and distill complex topics and tradeoffs into a simple framework to influence decision making • Extremely detail oriented, highly organized and able to balance multiple projects / thrive in a fast-paced environment • Advanced experience with Excel / Google sheets, and BI tools (Tableau)