Director, Financial Planning & Strategy - Tessera

We are looking for a leader to join our FP&S team as our Director, Financial Planning & Strategy - Tessera, partnering with Tessera Data, a Checkr company. In this role, you will be the primary finance lead for Tessera with full P&L responsibility, supporting teams across R&D, GTM, and Operations, while also driving strategic corporate initiatives. The ideal candidate has experienced success in a dynamic, high-growth, and fast-paced environment, brings a quantitative, data driven mindset, and should have outstanding communication and interpersonal skills. Comfort interacting at all levels of senior management (including VP, SVP and C-suite) as well as Board members is a must.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Tessera Leadership by delivering financial results and KPIs, identifying issues and emerging trends, and providing a breadth of insight and financial decision support
• Lead and conduct analyses to enable data-driven decisions that optimize business performance and solve complex business challenges
• Extract and present key insights to leaders to influence decision making
• Develop revenue and operating expense models, leveraging inputs from across the organization
• Lead the planning processes for Tessera by implementing scalable and consistent processes to enable operational excellence in business planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting
• Deliver quarterly analyses and reporting of the business' financial results and KPIs, including variances to plan, ensuring key issues, risks, and business drivers are understood and highlighted
• Build and lead a high-performing Tessera FP&S team

What you bring:

• Minimum of 6+ years in finance, with 2+ years experience leading and developing teams
• Proven track record in building and growing outstanding finance teams with best practices in a fast-growing environment
• Quantitative & analytical mindset with strong attention to detail
• Deep experience working in high-growth environments with a proven ability to identify and drive impactful financial outcomes, and to manage complex projects across multiple teams
• Prior experience in a combination of investment banking, management consulting, and private equity strongly preferred
• Strong executive leadership skills with experience partnering at the Board, investor, and executive management levels
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with proven experience in cultivating collaborative working relationships with teams across an organization
• Demonstrates the Checkr core values of Grit, Humility, Transparency, Connection and Ownership

What you get

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Up to 25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend

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