Sr. Manager, FP&A for CSG

Newark, NJ, United States

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Elastic is seeking an experienced Senior Finance Manager to join the FP&A team supporting our Chief Customer Officer. You will report into our Finance Director, Customer Success.

We are looking to add an individual contributor to the team who has experience supporting a SaaS software sales or post-sales business unit from a detailed finance perspective. The ideal person will have extensive software industry experience, be able to build complex financial models, solve unstructured problems, synthesize large datasets and draw relevant conclusions. The candidate will have a strong work ethic, and rigorous attention to detail, have excellent communication and organizational skills and high integrity.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and play an integral role in the company's growth and success.

About the Team The Customer Success FP&A team is responsible for supporting our Customer Engineering, Support, and Professional Services organizations managing the overall P&L including financial reporting, forecasting and planning. Some of the key activities performed by the team include revenue and cost modeling and forecasting as well as establishing and maintaining critical metric reporting that measures the true success of our clients' outcomes. The Senior Manager's initial focus will be supporting our growing Customer Engineering team, helping them manage, measure and forecast our cloud consumption and self-service businesses.

What You Will Be Doing: This is a high visibility, expansive role where you will work across two main areas:

Customer Success Forecasting/Planning : Partner closely with business leaders to create, manage, and analyze revenue, spend, headcount and operational KPIs; Build models to assist with strategic decisions and influence outcomes; Build quarterly and annual budgets aligned to company strategy; Contribute to the monthly close process, including reviewing accruals, reconciling actuals vs forecast for revenue, spend and headcount, and presenting findings to senior leadership; and

Customer Engineering: Prepare extensive analysis around customer trial conversations, renewal rates, expansion rates and SaaS consumption scenarios and trends to ensure our customers are maximizing the outcomes of their Elastic product and services purchases.

In Addition, You Will: Solely manage and forecast spend for the Customer Engineering group, which will involve working with senior leaders to understand investment needs while ensuring budget accountability

Assist with the monthly financial close, budget-vs-actual analysis, and executive reporting, among other activities

Collaborate with the Customer Success Group and others in the organization on cross-functional projects

Have a strong eye for business and critical thinking with a focus on driving financial performance and optimizing resources

What You Bring Along: Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field. MBA or advanced degree a plus

8+ years of experience in FP&A, software, investment banking or management consulting preferably with familiarity with SaaS companies

Experience managing a business from a complete P&L perspective creating processes that ensure forecast accuracy

Strong financial modeling and analytical skills with the ability to translate sophisticated data into practical insights

Excellent communication and presentation skills that is effective communicating financial information to both financial and non-financial partners

Experience using software tools such as Tableau, Adaptive, Salesforce, NetSuite, BiqQuery, and other business intelligence platforms

Strong work ethic who is willing to work both autonomously and collaboratively and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $128,200 - $202,900 USD The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is: $153,800 - $243,300 USD Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn't matter if you're just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

Health coverage for you and your family in many locations

Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles

Generous number of vacation days each year

Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)

Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love

Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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