Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
Who We Are
Red Canary was founded to create a world where every organization can make its greatest impact without fear of cyber attack. Our combination of market-defining technology, processes, and expertise are preventing breaches every day. We are completely changing the way security is delivered and setting the new standard for security. If our mission resonates with you, let’s talk!
What We Believe In
- Do what’s right for the customer
- Be kind and authentic
- Deliver great quality
- Be relentless
Challenges You Will Solve
Red Canary is seeking an experienced Director of FP&A with demonstrated success in helping to take a company through a high growth phase with increasing complexity. We are looking for a seasoned leader to be the “authority” of the numbers and financial models, and to help advance the company’s financial management and maturity. The Director of FP&A, will report to the CFO and partner with department leaders to provide guidance that will enable the company to achieve our growth plans.
What You'll Do
- Work closely with leadership to formulate the short/long term financial and strategic plan
- Work with the executive team and department leaders to build their annual budgets and forecasts
- Produce models to project long term growth and determine the impacting business factors
- Take point on collection of useful data from across the company, to analyze provide insights to senior leadership into what’s working and what’s not, and drive strategy for improved performance
- Analyze financial and operational results against industry benchmarks to better understand company performance
- Utilizing BI tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance
- Utilizing FP&A planning systems to iterate on forecast scenarios
- Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance
- Communicate results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining operations
- Supply departments with revenue and expense targets and monitor progress
- Provide detailed analysis and commentary on cost center results
- Review operations and recommend new productivity or cost saving initiatives
- Prepare business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions
- Review existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement
- Evaluate previous budgets, expenditures to develop and implement future budgets
What You'll Bring
- You have a Bachelor’s in Accounting or comparable business degree; MBA/MSA and/or CPA a plus.
- You have 8-10 years of financial analysis experience with a minimum of 5 years of experience in SaaS
- Public Company Corporate experience preferred
- Private Company fast paced tech start up experience a nice-to-have
- You are detail oriented, well organized, proactive, and self-motivating
- You have a strong mastery of Microsoft Excel with strong quantitative capabilities
- Significant analytical skills including utilization of BI / reporting and FP&A planning tools (Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, etc.)
- You understand relationships are key and have strong interpersonal skills
- You are an experienced people leader. You are someone who takes pride in mentoring and supporting the careers of others and are comfortable providing direction and feedback to your team.
- You are a translator. You are able to communicate in both numbers and words, able to translate effectively between the two languages.
- You are collaborative and a listener. You excel at helping others distill complex budgetary or financial modeling needs into simple and easy to execute models/plans
- You can thrive in a smaller company environment and love the pace of a true startup
Targeted base salary range: $140,000 - 175,000 (depending on experience) + bonus eligibility and equity
Why Red Canary?
Red Canary is where people embody our mission to improve security outcomes for all. People work hard to maintain a culture that encourages authenticity in order to do your best work. Our people are driven and committed to finding the best security outcomes, delivering real and actionable answers, and being transparent along the way.
At Red Canary, we offer a very rich benefits program to our full-time team members so they can focus on their families and improving our customers’ security. For a full list of benefits, please review our Benefits Summary:
https://redcanary.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Benefit-Summary-Red-Canary.pdf
Individuals seeking employment at Red Canary are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.