Sr. Financial Analyst, Customer Success

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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Protection Starts with People. 

The Role and the Team

We’re seeking a highly motivated Sr. Financial Analyst to support our Worldwide Customer Success organization. This role reports to the Sr. Manager, FP&A for COGS, R&D, & Consolidations. In this highly visible role, you will be responsible for providing strategic financial analysis and insights to drive decision-making and optimize the financial performance of our customer-centric functions as well as work directly with business leadership to facilitate core planning – monthly, quarterly, and annual outlook. You will provide variance analysis of expenses, headcount, and maintain part of our financial model to accurately reflect future performance. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic and groundbreaking finance organization.

Your day to day

• Lead the development and maintenance of financial models, forecasts, and budgets for the Customer Success and Professional Services organizations.
• Analyze key financial and operational metrics to identify trends, opportunities, and risks, and provide actionable recommendations to management.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Support, Managed Services, Operations, and Finance, to ensure alignment of financial goals with business objectives.
• Prepare comprehensive monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and presentations for senior management, highlighting performance against targets and key metrics.
• Drive the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes, including gathering input from stakeholders, analyzing trends, and presenting financial projections.
• Conduct ad hoc financial analysis and special projects as needed to support strategic initiatives and continuous improvement efforts within the organization.

What you bring to the team

• Proven experience as a Finance Partner supporting Professional Services, working collaboratively with functional leaders to support the achievement of their operational and functional goals experience.
• Experience working directly in an FP&A environment modeling headcount and expenses.
• Experience with a financial planning tool, ERP and CRM required. Experience with Adaptive Planning, Salesforce.com a plus.
• Sound understanding of accounting theory and practice (e.g. basic revenue recognition rules, company capitalization policies and proper expense timing)
• Rock Star mastery of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent communication skills with all levels of an organization
• Ability to develop and maintain complex financial models
• Ability to question the output of a financial model and consider options for improvement
• Capability at effectively managing time, prioritizing tasks and working within deadlines
• Team player approach with strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Education that serves as a foundation for your experience in Finance, such as a BA/BS degree in finance or accounting with 5+ years of financial analysis experience

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply. 

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtPFPT

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