Abnormal Security Hiring for Finance Manager – Strategic Finance Job at San Francisco, CA Full Time

The Opportunity

As Abnormal looks to grow the business, the respective candidate will need to have strong operating knowledge and execution capabilities, but also showcase strong communication skills and confidence in working directly with senior leadership to help influence vital decision-making, optimize execution and help scale both the business and the finance organization. You can expect to define and guide the team to deliver on detailed analyses to derive insights that will drive key business decisions, help track and derive key performance metrics for the company, and act as a strategic partner to our Foundations, business leadership team and GTM teams. While the first 6 months may have a breadth of on-hand responsibilities, success in this role is starting to shape more domain ownership on both the strategic and GTM function, helping to deliver predictable forecasting, insights to drive business model enhancements and operate with a high degree of autonomy to find solutions to challenges that lay ahead of a company that will want to make a public offering within a 24-36 month window.

Who you are:

• You are a builder by nature, like getting your hands dirty and driving net new insights / processes that help shape a hyper growth organization
• You are a subject matter expert within the GTM analytics space and have a proven track record for leading complex analyses, influencing leadership, and optimizing functions for scale
• You have 10+ years of working experience and 5+ years of experience managing and building analytical teams
• You have a strong sense of how to use data to answer critical business questions and are motivated by unlocking that capability across the company
• You enjoy working as part of a team and are customer obsessed – always going the extra mile to deliver high quality work for your stakeholders
• You are a strong communicator, excellent project manager, and gritty with strong executive presence and the ability to influence and articulate critical/complex insights concisely

What you’ll do:

• Drive next generation operating and financial models for the company – we are at the beginning of our evolution and “builders all on deck” will be our mentality for at least the next year.
• Manage strategic planning including business modeling, P&L forecasting in partnership with Finance manager which will include target setting, and prioritization/quantification of upcoming strategic initiatives
• Partner with the strategy and analytics team to drive new insights and business metrics for success as well as think about new ways to improve and measure ROI effectiveness
• Work cross-functionally with the Growth/GTM organizations in particular as well the respective finance team supporting them , to identify, scope and monitor innovative growth opportunities and initiatives (organic and inorganic)
• Direct quantitative modeling efforts to quantify revenue initiatives, M&A opportunities, new areas of development for the business whether that could be international expansion or partnerships, etc
• Develop data-driven investment theses, business cases, and evaluation criteria for growth and efficiency oriented initiatives and help create more tools for self service within the organization
• Perform in any ad-hoc analyses and deep dives into strategic issues to improve the collective understanding of risks and opportunities related to the business and/or new areas of investment/TAM Expansion
• Help drive modeling and business support for potential acquisitions and drive net processes to help support our business leaders as transition into a growth-with-scale mentality

Experience you’ll need:

• Proven experience with 6-8+ years FP&A, corporate/strategic finance, investment banking, or other high-growth / investing finance-related experience
• Ability to both drive and communicate complicated analysis and solutions in a clear and concise manner to senior leaders at the company
• Experience working with spreadsheet software and other databases, as well as standard finance and ERP related systems
• Ability to adapt to ambiguity and thrive in a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to provide sound business judgment, strategic thinking, and broad financial and business perspective across the organization
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills – strong modeling and framework skills
• The ideal candidate will come in with robust experience working with both structured and unstructured data, operating with velocity vs balancing trade-offs for quality, has an ability to work with different functional groups as well as levels of employees to achieve results effectively and professionally
• SQL or programming experience is a nice-to-have

More About Abnormal Security:

Abnormal Security is defining the next generation of email security defense. Our platform uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to baseline communication content, user identity, and behavioral signals in real-time and at-scale in order to detect the abnormalities of email attacks. Customers love us because we consistently detect and stop what everyone else in the market can’t – advanced attacks that have never been seen before – and we do so with beautiful user interfaces and best-in-industry customer support.

Our veteran team has built some of the most enduring machine learning platforms at leading companies including Google, Twitter, Pinterest, Amazon, Microsoft, and Expanse. We are located in San Francisco,CA, New York, NY and Lehi, UT.

Our company is growing – we’re on the Forbes AI 50, selected as a Gartner 2020 Cool Vendor, and our customer base includes multiple Fortune 500 companies.

Abnormal Security is committed to creating a diverse work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status