Head of Strategic Finance
Who We Are
Verkada is the leader in integrated cloud-managed enterprise building security. Verkada combines our cloud-managed software platform with hardware powered by edge-based processing to provide customers with a real-time view into every part of their organization. Designed with simplicity in mind, Verkada’s video security cameras, access control and environmental sensors natively integrate with our platform and are virtually effortless to install, maintain, and manage across hundreds of sites. Verkada protects more than 6,000 organizations, including more than 30+ of the Fortune 500.
Overview
As the leader of our Strategic Finance team, you will play a critical role leading a team that combines strategy, analytics, and financial analyses to enable the company to scale successfully. Strategic Finance takes on a range of projects that includes operational consulting, financial planning and analysis, investor relations, capital raising, lender engagement, strategic problem-solving, and spend management.
This role reports to the CFO and will be expected to grow and lead a small team.
Responsibilities
- Functional partnership: be a strategic partner for specific departments to help solve complex problems and be the main point of analytical/consulting help.
- Financial planning & strategy: help drive our financial planning processes and adapt the corporate plan for the growing complexity of the business.
- Reporting: help develop and track critical financial and operating metrics for the exec team, investors and others; communicate actionable insights to relevant stakeholders.
- Spend management: work closely with People Ops to manage our compensation and offer processes, and with different departments to evaluate and manage third-party vendor spend.
- Since we’re still in scrappy startup mode, there’s a lot of rolling up your sleeves and getting into the weeds to drive direct impact on a daily basis. We knock out today’s problems while also balancing our need to build for the long-term.
Requirements
- High academic achievement from a leading university and a top-tier MBA.
- 4-10+ years experience post-MBA at a leading management consulting, private equity, venture capital, investment banking or high growth technology firm
- Raw smarts: we are looking for people with strong business acumen who can approach complex problems and solve them from start to finish.
- Strong analytical skills: you have a data-driven mentality and high attention to detail; you are excited to dig through data and human anecdotes to get actionable insights.
- Cross-functional communication: you’ll need to connect and partner with stakeholders ranging from sales reps to software engineers to effectively implement our financial strategy and processes. Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must.
- Flexibility: you are comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment that will require you to manage competing priorities, pivot quickly and often, and continually build new processes as the company scales.
Verkada is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to be a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is support for members and allies of our internal communities like Women at Verkada, Pride at Verkada, Multicultural at Verkada and Parents at Verkada.