Director, Strategic Deal Finance

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Liftoff Mobile

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2012

📣 Marketing

Marketing • Advertising • Mobile

Liftoff Mobile is a leading platform designed to enhance mobile advertising and growth for businesses. The company specializes in leveraging advanced machine learning solutions through its Cortex platform to improve user acquisition, engagement, and monetization strategies in the mobile ecosystem. Liftoff's services cater to marketers, mobile game developers, and agencies, providing tools for performance marketing, creative ad solutions, and data-driven insights. Their offerings include products like the Vungle Exchange, Creative Studio, and Intelligence solutions, aimed at maximizing earnings and creating impactful ad experiences across mobile applications.

📋 Description

• Serve as DRI for all revenue adjustments in weekly reporting, owning logic, file integrity, and formula soundness • Maintain active reconciliation checks and ensure adjustments are accurate, complete, and explainable • Work with cross-functional partners to incorporate new information before weekly close • Lead weekly alignment meetings with FP&A and own week-over-week variance explanations • Own all deal types end-to-end, from standard structures to complex, unique, and customer-specific arrangements • Maintain and enforce the Deal Desk approval matrix • Lead a bi-annual Deal Desk Strategy Review with senior leadership • Own the commercial philosophy and logic underlying deal structures, eligibility thresholds, and segment parameters • Lead upfront diligence and detailed financial modeling for non-standard deals • Lead weekly cross-functional reviews of active non-standard deals and recommend budget and commercial adjustments • Produce monthly performance updates with variance analysis against original assumptions • Monitor cash flows and financial commitments on structured deals, update models with actuals, and flag deviations • Own and lead accrual review for key Deal Desk items • Present supported accrual positions and underlying data in senior Finance forums • Directly manage a Senior Analyst, providing mentorship, prioritization, and analytical standards

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field • 10+ years of experience in commercial finance, deal desk, revenue operations, or strategic finance • At least 5 years with direct ownership over deal structuring or commercial agreements • Ability to evaluate complex deal economics independently • Ability to build defensible financial models and present clear recommendations to senior leadership • Strong understanding of revenue recognition, accrual accounting, and operational mechanics of commercial deal management • Exceptional judgment under commercial pressure • Track record of true DRI ownership, proactively surfacing risks, driving process, and escalating when warranted • Excellent communication skills and experience presenting to CXO-level audiences • Ad tech, programmatic advertising, or mobile experience is nice to have • Must work during Pacific time zone • Must be based in an approved state where Liftoff has an entity

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Health/vision/dental benefits associated with country of residence • Medical coverage • Wellness stipends • Additional perks based on country of residence • Remote-first work arrangement • In-person team gatherings, including project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events • Opportunities for employee growth and impact