Director, FP&A

The Basics:

We are looking for a Finance Director to lead our Go-To-Market (GTM) finance team, leading the team responsible for Strategic Analyses, Financial Planning and Reporting and for our Global Sales, Channel and other GTM organizations.

You will play a key role in shaping the company’s growth strategies and provide value-add business partnering with Tanium leaders, delivering insightful, actionable financial reporting and analyses.

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 GTM teams and will have extensive financial reporting, 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:

• You will become a key partner and advisor to the Sales and GTM Operations leadership teams, including the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and SVP of Partner Channel and SVP of GTM Operations, enabling them to deliver against their goals.
• Partner cross-functionally to identify and model potential growth initiatives and provide recommendations to optimize the return on Go-To-Market investments.
• 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.
• Work closely with the Sales, GTM Operations and HR teams to deliver short term and long-range capacity plans.
• Deliver timely and accurate month-end, quarter-end and year-end planning and reporting deliverables.
• Prepare high-quality business analyses, insights, and modeling on ad hoc projects for the CEO, CFO and CRO
• 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 continuously improve forecast accuracy and provide line of sight to risks & opportunities. 
• Lead and continuously develop the sales finance team.
• Comfortable working in high growth environments and having to operate in ambiguity. 

We’re looking for someone with:

• 10+ years’ experience in a business partnering role at a high-growth technology company
• Experience thinking strategically about complex business problems, leading to assessment of options, recommendations, and action plans
• Prior experience partnering with Sales and Marketing organizations, preferably in technology/software with subscription/SaaS models
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to quickly craft precise and elegant responses.
• Self-starter with a positive attitude
• Proven ability to lead and develop high performing teams
• Advanced Excel and experience building sophisticated models.
• Experience with Adaptive Planning or similar finance forecasting systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Finance.
• MBA 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 LinkedIn <