Principal, Strategy & Planning

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.

We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design.

Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

Job Mission:

As the Principal, Strategy and Growth, you will partner closely with the Office of the CFO to tackle sophisticated business problems: ranging from strategic planning, business model transition, to M&A diligence and integration. You will support and work with executives directly to lead cross-functional projects and steer the teams towards deliverables that will shape the future of Cohesity.  The ideal candidate is a highly motivated and resourceful individual who excels at problem solving, and solving the company’s largest business challenges.

What You'll Do

• Be a critical member of the FP&A team, working closely with Cohesity executives on high priority initiatives
• Lead initiatives and work across teams to advise decisions related to business strategy, annual planning, investment strategy, prioritization, and other ongoing business priorities, enabling insights and improving decision-making velocity
• Proactively identify areas of opportunity for Cohesity from a strategic and operational perspective
• Lead cross-functional project teams to structure sophisticated business critical problems, develop clear hypotheses, conduct analyses, and provide recommendations through a data-driven process
• Support M&A related diligence, including developing investment models, returns analysis, valuations, and exit scenarios. Develop executive level presentation materials related to strategic investments
• Support M&A related integration efforts, working with cross-functional collaborators on financial planning and alignment realization. 
• Become a guide on Cohesity’s business model and how it benchmarks against competitors in the market
• Able to seamlessly transition from high-altitude / big picture to diving deep into details to uncover insights, perform financial and market analyses and synthesize a point of view to make recommendations to executive leadership.
• Influence across all levels from the front lines to C-suite through effective communication and partnership.
• Take on ambiguous, open-ended questions, plus quickly develop and iterate to develop a solution

Who You Are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. We encourage you to apply should you meet many of these requirements and have the ability and interest to develop the others.

• 6+ years of related experience in business strategy, operations in tech companies, management consulting firms, or finance
• A consistent track record of delivering quantifiable business impact and running large corporate strategy and / or finance projects to desirable outcomes
• Outstanding critical and creative thinking skills including evaluating risks and contingencies, developing structure in ambiguous situations, connecting the dots and proven flexibility in accepting new insights and pivoting as needed. 
• Ability to identify patterns and synthesize disparate data to explain problems and propose recommendations
• Experienced at breaking down problems to resolve key questions/issues, diagnose the root causes, and crafting realistic solutions that can be readily driven across the organization.
• Highly collaborative and comfortable working across teams cross-functionally. Ability to efficiently partner, empower and encourage team members 
• Executive-ready communication and problem-framing/solving skills, including experience working directly with and advising members of the C-suite
• Ability to work quickly in a fast-paced environment while seamlessly transitioning from high-level to a detailed view