Senior Manager, Corporate Finance (SaaS Experience)

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Maven is looking for a self-motivated, quantitative thinker with strong SaaS experience who will play a critical role in our financial strategy and processes as we scale. Maven’s finance function has broad exposure across the business and shapes strategic and tactical decisions through data-driven insights. This hire will lead our partnership with our R&D and Growth Orgs, supporting special projects to drive the company’s long-term strategic vision. You will  manage the corporate side of our P&L, with a direct focus on ROI associated with the R&D and Growth Orgs, including measuring the efficiency of vendor investments, business case analyses, LTV:CAC, and retention metrics. 

As a Corporate Finance Senior Manager at Maven, you will: 

• Serve as the key financial thought leader for our corporate departments, with a focus on our R&D and Growth Orgs. Partner directly with our Chief Operating Officer, SVP of Engineering and Chief Revenue Officer
• Become the finance expert on SaaS-specific metrics, provide analytical rigor to align metric reporting cross-functionally. 
• Serve as an analytical partner ensuring a single-source of truth across departmental metrics. Develop business cases and scenario decision models to determine ROI on key tech investments and growth strategies
• Identify and execute innovative projects to drive SaaS infrastructure optimization aligned with company growth and customer demands 
• Evaluate SaaS industry spend benchmarks and ratios to provide recommendations that informing staffing decisions and forecasts in alignment with findings
• Develop monthly, quarterly and annual budgets for each corporate function. Build and manage a rigorous monthly and quarterly BvA process, delivering financial results and analysis to respective department owners.
• Lead vendor spend reviews, identify cost-saving opportunities and support negotiations with key vendors and partners
• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop usable models that track activity and effectively capitalize / amortize R&D

We’re looking for you to bring: 

• 5+ years of financial experience, including:
• 2+ years of experience in banking, consulting or venture-capital/growth investment 
• Preference for transaction / consulting experience with SaaS technology companies
• 2+  years leading revenue analysis, forecasting and insights reporting, at a growth stage company
• Preference for subscription-based revenue experience
• Familiarity and experience working with and forecasting spend for infrastructure vendors/providers including AWS, DataDog, Snowflake, etc
• Advanced Excel, GSheets, SQL and Looker skills & proficient in Netsuite and Salesforce reporting
• Experience and passion for SaaS and/or enterprise software business models and collaborating with SaaS engineering teams
• Detailed understanding of three statement financials including non-P&L drivers of changes in cash flows
• Experience with large data sets, including structuring (or improving the structure) of new data pools, identifying the optimal modeling tool and working cross-functionally to build models 
• Experience leading regular executive presentations, including monthly and quarterly performance updates
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and fast-paced environments with appropriate prioritization of competing priorities
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to dive into the details, communicate insights and drive decision making cross functionally, and zoom-out to provide executive-level insights

The base salary range for this role is $165K-$185K per year. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, and skillset.