Strategic Finance Manager

About the Role

Strategic Finance Manager

Location: Remote

About Abnormal Security: Abnormal Security is a leading provider of AI-driven cybersecurity solutions. Our mission is to protect organizations from the most sophisticated cyber threats. We are looking for a dynamic Strategic Finance Manager to join our growing team and contribute to our ambitious mission. The Strategic Finance team at Abnormal Security plays a critical role in shaping our financial strategy and ensuring the company’s long-term success.

Role Overview: As a Strategic Finance Manager, you will be responsible for building, managing, and maintaining key financial models that drive the company’s strategic decisions. You will partner closely with senior leadership and various departments, such as GTM, R&D, and other business teams to provide financial insights that support our go-to-market strategies, operational efficiency, and overall growth strategies. This role will also involve enhancing our forecasting processes, creating executive-level reports, and driving key performance metrics.

What you will do 

• Financial Modeling & Analysis: Build and maintain complex financial models that support strategic decision-making for GTM, R&D, and other business teams. Comfortable taking in problem statements from the business and building financial models from scratch in order to help solve those problems and enhance decision making.
• Long Range Planning: Develop and refine long-term forecasting models to support company-wide strategic planning and resource allocation. 

Financial Benchmarking: Drive the benchmarking of our financial profile against public company peers to ensure we are optimizing our investments as we approach IPO. Monitor industry trends and identify key valuation metrics that correlate with premium valuations, guiding financial planning to maximize shareholder returns. Will participate in financial due diligence of future M&A and capital markets activities.

• Business Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing data-driven insights and recommendations to inform key business decisions. 
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with all of Finance, GTM, R&D, and other business teams to guide and influence strategic choices and operational strategies.
• Reporting & Metrics: Develop high-quality financial reports and dashboards for executives, summarizing key business drivers into essential metrics that highlight the company’s financial performance.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline and improve financial processes and models, ensuring scalability and efficiency in strategic planning.

Must Haves 

• Experience: 3+ years of progressive experience in strategic finance, investment banking, corporate development or management consulting. Prior experience in SaaS, cybersecurity, or high-growth tech companies is a plus. 
• Skills: Advanced financial modeling and analytical skills, with a strong ability to turn data into actionable insights. Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets is required; experience with SQL is also a plus. In this role, you will need to build from scratch and partner with the necessary teams to gather information and solve each problem.
• Communication: Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex financial concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field. 
• Work Ethic: Highly ambitious with a desire to take ownership of all aspects of your work, a team-first attitude, and the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment. 

Nice to Have 

• SaaS Metrics: Solid understanding of SaaS business models and metrics, with experience in a fast-growth environment.
• Industry Experience: Experience in the cybersecurity industry and familiarity with the challenges and opportunities in this space.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and manage multiple priorities effectively. Taking ownership and working with ambiguity is important in this role.

At Abnormal Security certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits. Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons. We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. Learn more about our Compensation and Equity Philosophy on our Benefits & Perks page.

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Last updated on Aug 19, 2024