Strategic Finance, BU Partnership

We are building out the Finance team to help make data-driven and financially sound decisions for Scale. The Finance team drives strategic, financial, and operational decisions by partnering with the leadership team to make critical decisions across Scale. 

The Finance team is responsible for owning the company’s budget, driving quarterly and annual planning processes, allocating the company’s resources efficiently, and performing financial analyses to drive key decisions. In this role, you will have a unique opportunity to work closely with the GM of a key business unit and will use your quantitative insights to drive better decision-making for the BU. The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills to support recommendations coupled with strong interpersonal skills to manage various stakeholders. We hope you'll join us!

You will:

• This is a business partnership role on the Strategic Finance team supporting a nascent but quickly growing Product and Business Unit. This role supports the General Manager of the Business Unit and could get exposure to supporting Sales and Engineering teams
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop strategic initiatives that drive revenue growth, including pricing and GTM strategy, and other strategic initiatives 
• Partner with the Engineering and Operation Teams to manage headcount and expense forecasts, own weekly and monthly financial reporting, KPIs, presentations, and other critical analysis requests
• Create internal executive reporting including forecast/close, financial reporting, investor reporting and other management presentations
• Partner with accounting to support month-end close, flux review processes, and deliver high-quality financial reporting

Ideally, you'd have:

• 4+ years of financial analysis experience working directly in a Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance
• 2 years of investment banking experience
• Demonstrated excellent project management skills, ability to manage and manipulate large data sets, critically analyze existing processes, and identify opportunities for process improvement
• Strong knowledge of Google Suite, and MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); expert Excel modeling skills 

Nice to haves:

• A Bachelor’s degree with a major in finance or accounting
• 2 years of management experience in a corporate finance role
• Experience in SQL and Business Intelligence tools a plus
• Experience with Anaplan and/or Adaptive Insights a plus