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As our manager of Finance, Planning and Analysis, you will lead a team to budget and forecast revenue needed for models that range from quarterly to multi-years. As Avalara continues to grow you will play a critical part in building revenue models across multiple business lines. You will work with the Revenue Accounting team and Business leaders to understand the inputs and drivers for these models. By working with and understanding the Business you will help project future growth while also being able to drill into actuals to provide analysis and report on trends. Your success will require a candidate with SaaS revenue background and the curiosity to learn about multiple products and build partnerships with important partners across the company. The Sen Manager, Finance Planning and Analysis will report to the Director- Finance, Planning and Analysis.
Responsibilities
What you will do:
- Refine and maintain data-driven, driver-based revenue models for both near term (1-12 months) and long term (12+ months) by understanding business model and impact of business changes
- Build relationships cross-functionally (Accounting, Analytics, Sales Leaders) to drive forecast accuracy, improve processes and automation, and establish rigor in measuring the business
- Deliver quantitative and qualitative analyses with high precision and efficiency
- Provide ad-hoc analysis to support operational and strategic decision making
- Help analyze monthly and quarterly revenue performance by providing insights on variances to plan and prior forecast
- Have understanding of ARR and be able to build and explain ARR related models
- Use Adaptive Planning to build and automate models
What you will need to be successful:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Business
- 7-10 years of Revenue analysis experience
- Advanced Excel skills, including experience building detailed SaaS Revenue and ARR models
- Lead a team by prioritizing assignments
- Able to distill information from data level to management consumption
- Focus on accuracy and completeness
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple tasks
- Understanding of GAAP accounting principles, including ASC 606
- Understanding of the bookings-to-revenue process
- Experience working with Workday Adaptive Planning, Salesforce.com, Tableau and/or PowerBI, SQL
- Public company finance experience
- Big 4 public accounting experience
- Advanced degree and/or professional certification (MBA/CPA/CFA)
About Avalara
About Avalara:
We're building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make - every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there's an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes - the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.
Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world - from corner stores to gigantic global retailers - to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That's a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That's why we're growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.
Equal Opportunities:
Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.
