Director, Strategic Finance M&A Integration

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. 

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances. 

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

Job Description:

To support our exponential growth, Zscaler Finance is looking to hire an M&A leader with experience in strategic finance M&A integration after an acquisition.  This Director level role will be a part of the CFO organization and work closely with our Corporate Development team, Finance Integration Lead, Finance Processes/ Transformation organization and senior Finance leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Understand requirements at all stages of the M&A process including but not limited to due diligence, deal approval and agreement, integration planning and delivery.
• Work with the corporate development group to develop an understanding of target’s operating model, market opportunity, product, functional structure, and long-term strategic direction of the target in relation to market development.
• Partner with Corporate Integration Management Office and Product team to understand the acquired company’s business model and our future goals; Align on a strategic finance integration strategy (i.e., new cost centers vs embedded costs, Revenue strategy, Cost profiling, Headcount plans and metric tracking).
• Understand the details of the transaction and develop strategic plan to track integration of strategic objectives with Day 1, Day 30, Day 90 and 12-month milestones; determine immediate requirements and support prioritization.
• Assess risk and issues, when strategic finance integration decisions are made; Develop mitigation strategies and action plans for resolution.
• Represent office of the CFO at the IMO (with Finance Integration Leads) to manage, monitor and track progress of strategic finance integration; Highlight issues and discuss mitigation strategies.
• Understand the current state of Finance function and work with People & Culture & Finance Integration Lead to develop an interim and long-term organization structure.
• Identify required talent and provide inputs to retention strategy.
• Work with Finance Integration Lead to determine duplicate work performed by Finance personnel and develop a plan to eliminate redundancies.
• Work with FP&A to track progress against the financial model and report on benefits achieved for each M&A transaction.
• Advise IMO on metrics to track Integration performance.
• Work with finance integration lead to develop models to measure and report on metrics related to Finance.
• Work with multiple groups and stakeholders across the organization to determine critical hand-offs between Finance and other functions (P&C, Legal, IT, Product, GTM, etc.).
• Manage hand-offs and ensure timeliness of information and data exchange between Finance and other functions.
• Work with IT and Finance Integration lead to develop technology rationalization strategy for financial systems.
• Create content for communication to other groups – launch weekly updates & newsletters.
• Use cross functional knowledge to connect the dots for key stakeholders to drive increased alignment.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in supporting M&A transactions, due diligence, or other key execution roles such as chief of staff for COO, CFO, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience working in SaaS companies with cloud-based service offerings in security, networking, or connectivity; Operational knowledge of cloud networking and security with ability to drive into product, understand business needs and drive decisions.
• Experience in providing str