Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy

United States | Finance | Full-time | Fully remote

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As one of the largest, award-winning, and top-selling app vendors in the Atlassian Marketplace supporting over 30,000 customers around the world, we hire top talent who build with heart and succeed with others.

At Tempo, we’re on a mission to help modern, forward-thinking product and engineering teams work better. Our integrated applications for time management, resource planning, and budget management provide unrivaled understanding of how time and effort are spent. But we’re not the time tracking of yesterday. Our innovations in automation and machine learning make logging time seamless for the highly skilled and creative people doing the work. With uninterrupted effort, team leads and executives gain deep insights into how time is being used in order to plan, manage, and deliver results. After all, time is a finite and precious resource, and the world’s top performing teams unlock the value of their time so that they consistently succeed.

Come join us as we continuously innovate our industry-leading products and expand to new ecosystems. We are looking for exceptional candidates who will bring their unique perspectives to our global teams.

 About the Position -

Reporting to the Head of Strategic Finance, this individual contributor role is an integral addition to a team responsible for budgeting, forecasting and managing Tempo’s full P&L and serving as analytical and strategic business partners throughout the organization. This role will drive financial visibility and accountability, built on strong relationships across the company and grounded in data and analysis, requiring the ability to navigate between complex details and the big picture. This is a highly visible role engaging regularly with executives and senior leaders and will be pivotal in enabling informed decisions that drive revenue growth and maximize profitability.

You are a seasoned finance leader, with strong analytical and modeling skills and a deep SaaS understanding. You also have demonstrable experience of acting as a business partner, supporting and challenging non-finance stakeholders. As this role involves constant interaction with senior non-finance stakeholders across the business, you need the confidence and emotional intelligence to effectively communicate at all levels. The ideal candidate has a mixed financial skill set, has worked in the high-tech industry and enjoys operating in an extremely fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

*Experience working at a high-growth SaaS company is must

What You’ll Do -

  • Support team in executing on strategic and financial planning processes (e.g., Business Reviews, Forecasts, Annual Budget, and Long-Range Plan)
  • Prepare financial reporting deliverables (month-end close package, departmental variance explanation) to enable transparency into the business’s performance and drivers. Liaise with the Accounting team and cross-functional business partners to ensure correct accounting treatment of transactional activities.
  • Provide analytical rigor and thought partnership to help drive key business decisions in support of strategic initiatives
  • Liaise with stakeholders across the company to coordinate the capture and communication of relevant financial and operational data
  • Develop and monitor critical success metrics, and communicate actionable insights
  • Lead analytics studies to support decisions/conclusions on financial performance, business unit profitability, and operational effectiveness
  • Support the development of Leadership, Board and Investor presentations.
  • Foster collaborative relationships with business teams, implement new processes and drive continuous improvement through insightful analysis, building accountability and predictability of financial performance
  • Support the implementation, adoption, and management of new FP&A software (Planful)
  • Support the continued build out of the process, framework, and systems supporting our consolidated business forecast.
  • Serve as a thought-partner to leaders across the organization on strategy, develop a shared vision for how we scale efficiently.

 Who You Are -

  • Minimum 8+ years of progressive finance/FP&A experience
  • 4+ years experience at a high-growth SaaS company, preferably with international operations
  • Experience evolving processes, controls and systems to support a high-growth company
  • Ability to influence all levels of leadership to drive actions, behaviors, decisions and business outcomes
  • Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Excel to analyze complex business scenarios by building/improving financial models.
  • Highly motivated, self-starter with ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, simultaneously manage several priorities, and challenge the status quo to lead change and operational improvements.
  • Attention to details and ability to synthesize large volumes of data into concise and insightful recommendations to the executive leadership team.
  • Grace under pressure with a good sense of humor and dose of humility
  • Strong accounting knowledge especially in a software/SaaS environment
  • Strong written and oral communication skills with experience in presenting to business partners with confidence, conviction, and credibility
  • Experience in multiple finance domains highly desired (i.e. GTM, R&D, Corporate, Strategy, etc)
  • Bachelor’s in Finance, Economics, STEM, or equivalent (MBA a plus)
  • Experience working with modern software and dimensional planning systems, (particularly knowledge working with NetSuite, Looker, Planful is a plus)
  • Cloud infrastructure and Cloud FinOps knowledge is a plus
  • Experience merging, enhancing, and analyzing large data sets utilizing programming languages (e.g., BQ, SQL, R, Python) a plus

What's In It For You -

  • Remote First Work Environment!
  • Unlimited vacation in most of our locations
  • Great benefits including health, dental, vision and savings plan
  • Perks such as training reimbursement, WFH reimbursement, and more
  • Diverse and dynamic teams with challenging and exciting work
  • An opportunity to have a real impact on our business
  • A great range of social activities (both in person and virtual)
  • Optional in person meet-ups and the ability to travel to our international offices
  • Employee referral program

Note: As our hiring teams are global, please submit your resume in English only!

 At Tempo Software, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive culture. As such all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.