Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s Public Relations Management (PRM) platform enables organizations to build relationships with the media, manage crisis risk and demonstrate PR’s impact on business outcomes.

Founder controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, & customer devotion and infuse these values into everything we do.

We’re looking for an analytical and entrepreneurial Senior Manager, Strategic Finance to join our quickly growing team to drive meaningful impact across the company. 

You will drive financial analyses, build and own reports/KPIs, and model business outcomes to provide visibility into the company’s operations and inform strategic decision-making across the company. You will report to the CFO and get exposure to other leaders across the org.  

What you’ll do:

• Contribute to FP&A planning, financial model/KPI dashboard building, special projects, and financial analysis to drive strategic decision-making across the org
• Work closely with Revenue Operations, Business Operations, and Finance teams to enhance revenue reporting and KPI tracking, which includes creating KPI dashboards, identifying trends, and presenting the implications to leadership to drive strategic decision-making
• Own the company operating model as well as departmental budgets, providing clear communications to leaders across the company on budget tracking and variances
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis to promote faster, data-driven decision making and answer questions to help departments grow + make better decisions
• Create reporting for Board presentations and executive management that clearly communicates financial results/KPI trends 
• Work with the CFO to help optimize the business through strategic analyses

How success will be measured in this role:

• Ability to build/own KPI dashboards/reports, extracting data from systems and presenting in a logical way that represents underlying business trends
• Ability to clearly communicate budgets, other financial data and their implications to various stakeholders across the Company; build strong relationships with these stakeholders
• Proficiency in identifying strategic implications (company-wide) based on trends in data, and communicate those findings clearly to management to impact decision-making
• Ownership of financial modeling, report/presentation building and communicating implications of analyses across org

If the details below describe you, you could be a great fit for this role:

• 4+ years of experience in FP&A, preferably 1+ years of investment banking experience 
• Excellent business acumen, with the ability to contextualize information, build financial analyses/models to assess strategic implications, and and translate findings to business leaders across the org
• Expert financial modeler, with extensive experience using Excel & Google Sheets
• Experience extracting data from systems, including CRM (e.g., Salesforce), Marketing software (e.g., Marketo or Hubspot), Revenue Reporting software (e.g., Maxio), etc. 
• Experience with SaaS KPIs and SaaS Revenue metrics, with an understanding of value drivers in a SaaS business
• Curious problem solver who can find creative ways to analyze business/financial trends to drive strategic decision-making
• Entrepreneurial self-starter capable of identifying process improvements and bottlenecks to reporting
• Excellent communicator with track record of strong collaboration across teams to drive data-driven decision making
• Experience with SQL, strategic finance platforms (e.g. Pigment, Adaptive, Mosaic) and/or Looker is strongly preferred

Interview Overview 

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

• A 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
• A 1 hour Zoom interview with the hiring manager
• Skills Assessment (1 hour max)
• Panel interview with several members of our team
• Final call(s) with executive team member(s) 

Salary

In the US, the base salary for this role is between $125,000 and $146,000, depending on skills and experience. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on