Director of R&D and Strategic Finance

The Basics:

We are looking for a Director, R&D and Strategic Finance, to act as a key finance partner to R&D leadership (Engineering, Product, and Strategy), owning budget management for these orgs while providing best-in-class financial modeling, analyses, and insights to enable data-driven decision-making and deliver against the company's multi-year financial plan.   

You will play a key role in shaping the company's growth strategies by partnering with business leaders to assess performance, understand business drivers and levers, and model scenarios to accelerate growth and achieve financial targets. Beyond day-to-day budget ownership, this role will have direct exposure to executive-level strategic decision-making, including analysis supporting product strategy, strategic partnerships, pricing strategy, and product marketing strategy.   

This is a high-impact and high-visibility role, providing the opportunity to influence decision-making at Executive Leadership levels and lead a small team supporting budgeting and project execution across R&D. The ideal candidate will have prior experience partnering with Engineering, Product or GTM teams, extensive financial modeling and analysis experience, strong business acumen, attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to partner with senior leaders in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.   

What you’ll do:

• Own budget management for the R&D organizations (Engineering and Product), including planning, forecasting, and variance analysis to ensure alignment with the company's financial targets 
• Build and maintain relationships with R&D leadership to identify and model potential growth initiatives, drive pivotal investment decisions, and provide recommendations to optimize return on strategic investments 
• Lead and develop a small team responsible for supporting budgeting, financial modeling, and project execution across R&D 
• Prepare high-quality business analyses, insights, and modeling on ad hoc projects for the COO, CFO, CTO, and other executive stakeholders 
• Build and improve management reporting and analyses to provide timely, insightful, and actionable information to enable data-driven decision-making 
• Develop a deep understanding of Tanium's product and go-to-market model, translating this into operational and financial information to monitor the health of the business 
• Drive continuous improvement within financial processes, tools, and models, including ongoing enhancements to provide line of sight to risks and opportunities 
• Comfortable working in high-growth environments and operating with ambiguity 

We’re looking for someone with:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Finance 
• Minimum of 8+ years of strategic/corporate finance, investment banking/management consulting, or experience at a high-growth technology company. 
• Experience leveraging AI to automate processes and improve efficiency  
• Prior experience partnering with R&D organizations or GTM organizations, preferably in technology/software with subscription/SaaS models 
• Experience working on complex business problems, leading to assessment of options, recommendations, and action plans  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to quickly craft precise and elegant responses.  
• Advanced in PowerPoint and experience with PowerBI or other data visualization tools. 

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