Senior Strategic Finance Manager

The Basics:

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance, to act as a key finance partner to the Go-To-Market and Product organizations, providing best-in-class financial modeling, analyses and insights to enable data-driven decision-making and deliver against the company’s multi-year financial plan.

You will play a key role in shaping the company’s growth strategies by partnering with business leaders to assess performance, understand business drivers and levers, and model scenarios to accelerate growth and achieve financial targets.

This is a high-impact and high-visibility role, providing the opportunity to influence decision making at Executive Leadership levels. The ideal candidate will have prior experience partnering with Sales, Marketing or Product Development teams and will have extensive financial modeling & analyses experience, attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to partner with senior leaders in a fast-paced/high-growth environment.

This is a hybrid position, which will require in person attendance several days each week in one of the following locations: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

What you’ll do:

• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the Sales and R&D organizations to identify and model potential growth initiatives, drive pivotal investment decisions, and provide recommendations to optimize the return on Go-To-Market investments
• Prepare high-quality business analyses, insights, and modeling on ad hoc projects for the CEO, CFO, CTO and CRO
• Build and improve management reporting and analyses to provide timely, insightful and actionable information to enable data-driven decision-making
• Develop an understanding of Tanium’s go-to-market model, including various partner/channel motions, and translate this into operational and financial information to monitor the health of the business
• Perform in-depth product analysis to distill and synthesize key trends, assess current and future business risk, drive product strategy and communicate key messages to executive leadership
• Responsible for creating content for Executive audiences as part of Quarterly Business Reviews, Board Presentations and Executive Leadership reviews
• Drive continuous improvement within financial processes, tools and models, including ongoing enhancements to provide line of sight to risks & opportunities. 
• Comfortable working in high growth environments and having to operate in ambiguity

We’re looking for someone with:

• Minimum of 8+ years of strategic/corporate finance, investment banking/management consulting, or experience at a high-growth technology company.
• Prior experience partnering with Sales, Marketing or R&D organizations, preferably in technology/software with subscription/SaaS models
• Experience working on complex business problems, leading to assessment of options, recommendations, and action plans
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to quickly craft precise and elegant responses.
• Advanced in PowerPoint and experience with PowerBI or other data visualization tools.
• Self-starter with a positive attitude
• Advanced Excel and experience building sophisticated financial models
• Experience with Adaptive Planning or similar finance forecasting systems
• Self-starter with a positive attitude
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Finance
• Experience in Investment Banking or Consulting preferred

About Tanium 

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on