Director of Strategic Finance - Head of FP&A San Mateo, CA United States Business Operations - [...] - Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc

Director of Strategic Finance - Head of FP&A

San Mateo, CA United States

Who We Are

Verkada is a leader in cloud-based B2B physical security. Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.

Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.

Founded in 2016 with more than $460M in funding raised to date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 16 offices across three continents, 2,100+ full-time employees and 28,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

This is an exciting opportunity to build and lead the FP&A function at a high growth pre-IPO startup, as part of Verkada’s growing Strategic Finance team. You will play a critical role in improving our overall financial discipline and taking our end-to-end budgeting, reporting, and financial planning processes to the next level of scale and sophistication, as we prepare ourselves to operate as a public company. This role will report directly to the VP of Strategic Finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a highly capable 3-person team (to start), partnering with budget owners across the company on financial planning, budgeting, reporting, and ad hoc analyses.
• Own our monthly/quarterly CFO budget reviews and detailed opex forecast models.
• Create more rigorous and scalable policies and processes around how teams spend their budgets and manage resource allocation tradeoffs.
• Identify opportunities to drive greater operating efficiency, and work cross-functionally to drive through those changes.
• Help scale FP&A’s impact through improved tooling and self-serve reporting.
• Get sh*t done! Be comfortable rolling up your sleeves and getting into the weeds to drive impact on a daily basis… we knock out today’s problems while also balancing our need to build for the long-term.

Qualifications

• 10-12+ years of progressive high growth FP&A experience. You’ve previously helped build and scale FP&A functions at fast growing technology startups (ideally from hundreds to multi-thousand person scale), and are comfortable rolling up your sleeves as a “player-coach” builder. Experience with hardware and/or inventory businesses is a plus.
• High analytical horsepower paired with deep expertise in data and financial planning systems. You are fluent in both SQL and data warehouse best practices, and have deep experience with modern BI and Financial Planning platforms (Verkada currently uses Looker and Pigment).
• Attention to detail and strong strategic instincts. You are meticulous in ensuring your and others’ output is precise and error-free, but pair this with a strong sense for 80/20 to know when things “pass the smell test” and what is critical vs. secondary to an answer.
• A growth mindset and comfort with ambiguity. You are comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment that will require you to create structure out of ambiguity, manage often competing priorities, and pivot quickly when circumstances change.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills. You can effectively engage with a diverse array of stakeholders ranging from sales reps to engineers, and build the credibility, relationships, and buy-in necessary to strike the delicate balance between partnering and constructive challenging that this role requires. Fantastic written and verbal communication skills are a must.
• A team player with a low “ego to smarts ratio”. You bring a positive, learn-it-all (not know-it-all) energy to your teams, and are generally known for being great to work with. Life is short… we want to enjoy the time we spend with our colleagues!

Pay Disclosure

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate’s skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. This estimate can vary based on the factors described above, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range. This estimate is also just one component of Verkada’s total rewards package. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

$215,000 - $280,000 USD

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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