We are looking for an experienced Sales Finance Manager to join our team!  This is a hands-on management position reporting to the CFO.  The Sales Finance Manager will play a key role in enhancing the company contract execution as well as Sales finance support. 

What You'll Be Doing: 

• Act as a liaison between Sales, Legal, and internal business function to drive forward the contract negotiations and execution;
• Review and approve deal terms and ensure appropriate documentation in quote outputs and contracts;
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the field on deal structure, and business terms;
• Streamline, standardize, and automate contracting processes to improve deal desk efficiency;
• Work with the sales leadership and sales ops to create sales compensation plans, review and approve the compensation plan documents; 
• Responsible for monthly commission calculations and timely payout; 
• Lead the Sales budgeting and on-going forecasting process;
• Analyze sales productivity, revenue growth and retention, unit economics, and margins;
• Collaborate with other members of the Finance team on a variety of initiatives, including, but not limited to, the monthly close process, quote to cash process, KPI reporting etc.

What You'll Bring to the Team: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration;
• Minimum 8 years of relevant career experience with a technology company (in a Deal Desk Role, Sales/Field Finance, FP&A, or Revenue Accounting);
• Experience with contract review, negotiation, revenue recognition and sales compensation;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Ability to work under pressure without compromising quality; 
• Ability to use judgment and draw on experience to make decisions or recommendations;
• Working knowledge of SaaS contracts, discounting, value-positioning, and revenue recognition concepts a plus.

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the leading open source time series database. We are a Series D-funded startup, backed by Sapphire Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, Trinity Ventures, and Battery Ventures, and a Y Combinator success story. Headquartered in San Francisco, InfluxData’s workforce is distributed throughout the U.S. and across Europe. The company was recently named one of the 50 Best Workplaces for Innovators by Fast Company. 

Our technology is purpose-built to handle the massive volumes of time-stamped data produced by IoT devices, applications, networks, containers and computers. We are on a mission to help developers and organizations, such as Cisco, IBM, PayPal, and Tesla, store and analyze real-time data, empowering them to build transformative monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications quicker and to scale.

We offer fantastic benefits; in the US these include:

• Medical/ dental/vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees and dependents
• Company contribution to FSA and commuter benefits
• Open PTO - take the time you need
• Life lnsurance, short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401k
• ....and more!

Our Core Values

Our employees are the heart of the company and only by having a core set of beliefs and values will we be successful. We hire and live by these core values:

• We value each other
• We get stuff done
• We believe humility drives learning
• We embrace failure
• We are committed to open source

Visit our careers page to learn more about working at InfluxData.

InfluxData is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

InfluxData does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters and recruitment agencies through our website, job board or directly to employees. InfluxData will not pay fees to any third-party agency, headhunter or company that does not have a signed agreement for this position in place.