Analyst – Strategic Finance

Analyst – Strategic Finance

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Alarm.com (ALRM) is a tenured and profitable SaaS company driving innovation in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. We’ve experienced steady, healthy growth over the past several years and established a high-performing and wide-ranging FP&A team along the way. We are seeking an Analyst for our Strategic Finance team to help optimize our business strategies and inform our financial analysis as we continue to scale. In this role, you will be responsible for providing analytical support and project management to teams throughout the organization. You should thrive in a cross-functional environment and value building relationships with partners both internally and externally.  In order to be successful in this role, you should possess a combination of strong quantitative abilities, business acumen, project management, and communication skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your responsibilities in this position will vary day-to-day, so you should work best in a dynamic environment. Your key areas of ownership would include:

• Financial strategy – gather customer feedback and develop value-based price levels for our growing suite of products and services in a variety of product categories and channels
• Deal design – roll up your sleeves and engage with internal parties to design contract terms and structures, learning, defining, and deploying negotiation strategies internally and externally
• Project management – leverage business and industry knowledge to lead internal initiatives from ideation to launch, managing responsibilities in multiple areas of the project to ensure successful execution in pursuit of business objectives
• Addressable market analysis - evaluate addressable market opportunities to inform product roadmap, incorporating data from multiple sources to quantify current and future market / category growth
• Unit economic analysis – build robust and dynamic models to evaluate business impact across different scenarios, from pricing changes, demand growth, COGS decreases, etc.
• Comparative analysis – conduct competitive analysis and pricing research, surveys, and in market testing to understand elasticity and inform recommendations
• Collaboration - work cross-functionally with sales, finance, legal, business intelligence, marketing, product, and others

YOU WILL LIKELY BE A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE IF:

• You have excellent leadership skills and are successful in matrixed organizations
• You are a team player and have strong analytical and people skills
• You describe yourself as a utility player
• You have experience with subscription-based business models
• You have 3-5 years of experience in an analyst or similar data-centric role
• You are detail-orientated with the ability to develop, manage, and execute identified objectives
• You’re a self-starter and a proven team player in a high achievement-oriented environment
• You value being both a mentor and mentee and yearn to be a reliable partner in the business
• You have the proven ability to develop creative/non-traditional solutions with strategic thinking
• You have an undergraduate degree – preferably with advanced course work in Finance and/or Economics
• You have working knowledge of accounting and financial concepts
• You have advanced Microsoft Excel skills

COMPANY INFO

Alarm.com is the leading cloud-based platform for smart security and the Internet of Things. More than 6 million home and business owners depend on our solutions every day to make their properties safer, smarter, and more efficient. And every day, we’re innovating new technologies in rapidly evolving spaces including AI, video analytics, facial recognition, machine learning, energy analytics, and more. Alarm.com earned the Top Workplace™ award for our employee culture and the meaningful work we do to give property owners peace of mind, help them conserve energy and water, and stay connected to loved ones. We’re seeking those who are passionate about creating change through technology and who want to make a lasting impact on the world around them.

For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.

COMPANY BENEFITS

Alarm.com offers competitive pay and benefits including a wide choice of healthcare options with generous company subsidy, a health savings account option with company contribution, 401(k) with employer match, paid holidays and paid time off increasing with tenure, paid maternity and paternity leave, company paid STD/LTD and life insurance, flexible spending accounts, an