Director, Finance & Analytics

As the Director of Finance & Analytics at Absolute, you will drive leadership around the Company’s financial modeling, forecasting, reporting and preparation of Board materials.

You will be responsible for driving strategy and insights around financial decision making and planning. Reporting to the VP, Finance, you will focus on the Company’s global business reporting, Long Range Plan, forecasting, planning, modeling and senior management support. The position and function will play an immediate and instrumental role in supporting Absolute’s growth through providing business insights and be a key business partner to Company leadership.

You will help develop a finance organization that has a comprehensive understanding of key business drivers and deliver financial plans and analyses that lead to effective and insightful decision-making. You will focus on the continuous improvement of financial tools, business modeling and financial planning processes.

You must have a strong understanding of financial concepts, three statement modeling, competitive analysis, business intelligence, and be intellectually curious and rigorous. You will bring insightful, strategic thinking to the table and act as a thought partner to the CFO and VP, Finance, as well as your peers across the Finance, Commercial Operations and Accounting organization. Experience in the technology industry is a strong plus but not required. You must be able to build exceptionally strong relationships with members of the executive management team and key leadership throughout the Company.

You are an energetic, motivated, and organized team player who will drive value at a growing cyber security technology company.

Essential Responsibilities

• Serve as key business partner and contributor to the development and analysis of growth strategies and tactics
• Develop, own and maintain the vision for Power BI and data visualization.
• Establish standards, roadmaps, and best practices for BI strategy, governance, and self-service analytics
• Lead the financial planning and operations on an annual and quarterly cadence, both formally and informally
• Ensure the validity of budgets and forecasts through thoughtful oversight of internal and external financial forecasts, budgets, etc., and assist with the creation of LRPs
• Help drive an efficient, effective and comprehensive process for developing financial plans and budgets that link to key corporate objectives, ensuring that all budgets and forecasts are accurate, comprehensive and completed on time. Own the 3 financial statement model, including rolling forecast and 3-year plan
• Oversee the financial planning tools and technology, including driving the implementation and enhancement of such tools and technology in partnership with our systems team and other members of the finance and accounting teams
• Provide critical input to the VP, Finance, CFO and other members of senior management regarding the financial performance of the Company, including recommendations for action and collaboratively developing operating policies and procedures to enable the attainment of corporate and business objectives
• Partner with executives to translate business objectives into actionable, insight-driven dashboards and analytical frameworks
• Contribute to the evolution and execution of financial updates for various internal and external stakeholders, including CEO, executive leaders and the Company’s Board of Directors
• Prepare executive presentations, including financial results and comprehensive business analyses and recommendations for senior management
• Partner with key stakeholders to develop, measure and monitor our key business metrics and connect those metrics to our financial management processes
• Develop and implement frameworks for effective investment decision making to ensure decisions are aligned with the creation of shareholder value
• Oversee architecture, dataflows, semantic models, and governance of the enterprise Power BI environment
• Ensure scalability, security, and performance across the Power BI ecosystem
• Collaborate with the Business Applications, IT, and Data Engineering teams to optimize data pipelines, data qualit