Sr. Financial Analyst, Marketing

The Basics:

We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to provide FP&A support for the Marketing team. You will be responsible for financial planning, reporting and analyses for our Marketing organization.  You will play a key role as we build out a finance team to deliver timely, accurate financial forecasts, provide value-add business partnering with Tanium leaders and deliver insightful, actionable financial modeling, reporting & analyses.  This role will have the opportunity to influence decision making on staffing models and investment ROI and prioritization. The ideal candidate will have strong financial modeling/analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to effectively prioritize in a fast-paced/high-growth environment. 

 This position reports to the Director of FP&A, Customer Experience. 

 What you'll do: 

• You will be a key partner to the Marketing leads, managing their headcount and other resource planning, and adjusting plans as necessary to align to changing business needs. 
• Develop an understanding of Tanium’s go-to-market motion, pipeline generation activities and translate this into operational and financial information to monitor the health of the business and understand where resources are being deployed. 
• Build/improve management reporting and analyses that provides relevant, insightful, actionable information to support data-driven decision-making.  
• Work closely with the Field Marketing, Demand Gen, Product Marketing, Communications/PR, and Marketing Ops team’s leadership to drive short term and long-range financial and workforce 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 Director of FP&A, VP of Finance, CFO, and CMO.
• Partner with workforce planning to track key metrics and performance indicators to evaluate the health of the business. 
• 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.  
• Participate in cross-functional efforts to continuously improve data quality and establish rigor in measuring the business.
• Comfortable working in high growth environments and having to operate in ambiguity.  

Who we're looking for: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or excelled academically in their respective major. 
• 5+ years’ experience in a business partnering role at a high-growth technology company. 
• Advanced in Excel and experience building sophisticated and driver based financial models.
• Advanced in PowerPoint and experience with data visualization tools.
• Experience with Adaptive Planning or similar finance forecasting systems.
• Self-starter with a positive attitude 
• Solid understanding of US GAAP and financial concepts. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to quickly craft precise and elegant responses.
• Ability to communicate with executive and c-suite audience. 

About Tanium 

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune’s list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers a