Sr. Financial Analyst, FP&A Marketing

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Company Overview

At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform
• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture
• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel
• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

The Role

 We are seeking a highly motivated, results-oriented individual to join our growing FP&A team! The perfect fit will marry strong analytical skills with a broad, strategic view of business performance metrics to drive advanced decision making. The role itself will partner closely with our world-class Marketing organization – working collaboratively to leverage advanced strategic modeling and performance analysis to help drive meaningful insights around expense planning, marketing investment ROI, pipeline planning and generation, and more.

This exciting, hands-on opportunity reports to the Sr Finance Manager, FP&A, and will have frequent interactions with Senior Management of the company - supporting and acting quickly based on the business needs and feedback. Additionally, this role will play a key part in preparing our annual/monthly forecasts and budgets based on trends and inputs from the Marketing organization - validating month-end results to ensure financial information has been recorded accurately. The leading candidate will also look to identify and implement streamlined business processes – reducing cycle times, allowing for more in-depth analysis of performance and financial trends, and has a solutions based approach.

Your day-to-day

• Proactively develop and maintain deep, meaningful business partner relationships within Marketing and broadly across the organization, fostering trust and collaboration to continually win each day
• Partner with the Marketing and Business Analytics teams to develop and implement marketing KPIs to assess the ROI of various marketing campaigns and drive the conversation of pipeline creation
• Maintain constant interactions with Marketing team to stay abreast of current company strategy and executing accordingly
• Partner with cross-functional teams to manage headcount, marketing programs, and discretionary spend
• Analyze operating and financial results, including analysis of monthly trends and drivers, using insights to update the forecast, or highlight areas of potential concern with appropriate recommendations
• Partner with the Marketing HR business partners and recruiters for headcount planning, understanding the needs of the business and the timing of hires and team transfers
• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and manage interdependencies on other company processes to recommend scalable long-term processes, architecture and systems
• Work alongside Marketing to prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting as needed – executive presentations, Investor reporting, QBRs, and other ad hoc requests

What you bring to the team

• 2 to 3+ years of Finance / FP&A experience – preferably supporting GTM teams such as Marketing and Sales
• BA/BS degree in appropriate discipline, ie. Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, or other applicable business-related field; or commensurate real-world experience in any of these areas
• Highly inquisitive, analytics thinker with attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills a must
• Experience working in a high-growth, tech environment (SAAS preferable)
• Experience working cross-functionally to develop accurate and efficient operational processes
• History of executing & managing multiple simultaneous projects from multiple stakeholders with competing priorities
• Working knowledge of GAAP (including accruals, account reconciliations, and capitalization versus expense)
• Strong proficiency with Excel (pivot tables, Vlookups, Index/Match, etc.) and the ability to quickly manipulate and analyze large data sets and build reports
• Experience in Salesforce, Adaptive Planning, and Microsoft PowerBI a plus

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

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