We are seeking an experienced Senior Finance Manager to join our R&D Finance team at Freshworks. In this pivotal role youll be the strategic finance partner to our Product and Engineering teams helping shape key decisions with your financial expertise and strong analytical skills. Youll engage with senior leadership provide actionable insights and guide your team to deliver results that drive business growth. If you thrive in fastpaced entrepreneurial environments and have a passion for leveraging financial modeling to influence business outcomes this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Product leadership to develop refine and implement strategic plans for the next 13 years. Highlight risks and opportunities related to business growth helping guide investment decisions through insightful financial models and analysis.
- Collaborate with corporate and GTM FP&A teams to define and track key performance indicators (KPIs). Use these metrics to ensure that strategic goals are met driving both financial and operational success.
- Build and refine complex financial models to evaluate business scenarios including marketing investments ROI and gotomarket strategies. Provide datadriven recommendations that influence critical decisions.
- Take ownership of financial reporting deliverables such as monthend close packages variance explanations and performance transparency. Ensure clear communication with the Accounting team and other business partners to explain key drivers and results.
- Lead the charge in streamlining standardizing and automating financial processes and reporting. Constantly look for ways to enhance efficiencies and drive operational improvements.
Please note this is a hybrid role with onsite expectations of 3x/ week (Tue Thur) from our San Mateo CA headquarters.
Qualifications :
- 10 years of experience in finance including at least 1 year of supervisory experience.
- Experience in FP&A management consulting investment banking or similar roles
- Ability to lead teams to deliver exceptional results and drive business growth
- Ability to influence all levels of leadership to drive actions behaviors decisions and business outcomes
- Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Excel/ Google Sheets to analyze complex business scenarios by building/improving financial models
- Highly motivated selfstarter with ability to work independently in a fastpaced environment simultaneously manage several priorities and challenge the status quo to lead change and operational improvements
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to synthesize large volumes of data into insightful recommendations to the executive leadership team
- Strong accounting knowledge especially in a software/ SaaS environment
- Strong written and oral communication skills with experience in presenting to business partners with confidence conviction and credibility
- Experience with SaaS/ Cloud Computing business models is a plus
- MBA is a plus
Additional Information :
This role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and the expected base salary range for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of jobrelated factors such as professional background training work experience business needs and market demand. Therefore in some circumstances the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for a target bonus
Base Salary: $194900 $280000
At Freshworks we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential purpose and passion irrespective of their background gender race sexual orientation religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees communities and the business.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime