Strategic Finance Lead

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Strategic Finance Lead, ARR Reporting & Analytics (Digital Media)

About the Role

You’ll sit at the center of cross-functional finance teams, owning the single source of truth for ARR and translating insights into decisions! The role involves crafting external earnings narratives, managing annual operating planning (AOP) and multi-year planning, and communicating weekly performance updates to senior leadership. A top candidate possesses advanced Excel/SQL proficiency along with excellent communication skills and a proactive mentality.

What You’ll Do

• ARR reporting & close: Lead weekly/monthly/quarterly ARR reporting, variance bridges, and executive readouts; reconcile ARR to growth drivers and explain the “why.”
• Annual operating plan (AOP): Orchestrate cross-functional planning for ARR, steward assumptions, timelines, and sign-offs.
• Develop 3–5-year scenarios, analyze market size, and align pricing, product roadmap, and investment decisions with long-term profit and cash flow.
• Scalable analytics: Automate pipelines and dashboards; standardize ARR, retention (NRR/GRR), churn/expansion, and pricing/pack impact views by segment, geo, and product.
• Earnings prep & external narrative: With IR (and Legal/Controllership as needed), craft slides, talking points, and Q&A; define and stress-test momentum stats for public disclosure.
• Continuous improvement: Eliminating manual work, improving data quality, and maturing governance of critical metrics with Finance Systems/Data and Corporate FP&A.

What You Will Need to be Successful

• Communication excellence: Executive-ready writing, slide craft, and live storytelling—including weekly performance notes and earnings Q&A.
• Data depth: Advanced Excel (scenario/sensitivity, dynamic models) and SQL (write/optimize queries, validate metrics end-to-end).
• Self-starter bias: Frames ambiguous problems, ships v1 quickly, iterates fast.
• Planning leadership: Proven ownership of AOP and long-range planning in subscription/SaaS.
• Experience: 8+ years in Strategic Finance, FP&A, BizOps, Consulting, or Investment Banking.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $130,300 -- $270,200 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.  Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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