Strategic Finance Manager

Title: Strategic Finance Manager

Location: Remote India

Reports To: Head of Finance

Schedule: 2PM-11PM IST

About HighLevel: HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1,000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

Our Website -https://www.gohighlevel.com/ 

YouTube Channel -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFiV4qDX5ipE-DQcsm1j4g 

Blog Post -https://blog.gohighlevel.com/general-atlantic-joins-highlevel/ 

Our Customers: HighLevel serves a diverse customer base, including over 60K agencies & entrepreneurs and 450K million businesses globally. Our customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises, spanning various industries and sectors.

Scale at HighLevel: We work at scale; our infrastructure handles around 3 Billion+ API hits & 2 Billion+ message events monthly and over 25M views of customer pages daily. We also handle over 80 Terabytes of data across 5 Databases.

Who You Are 

HighLevel is seeking a dedicated strategic finance hire to help build out the discipline and develop the analytical + financial frameworks to influence decision making for some of our most business-critical questions. You will partner cross-functionally with leaders across the business to inform resource allocation, define operational and financial KPIs for various functions, help drive revenue forecasting and proactively identify opportunities to improve ROIs (e.g. hiring/staffing teams, sales & marketing investments, etc.). We are looking for someone with extremely strong analytical + modeling skills with a clear track record of partnering with, and influencing, cross-functional teams - with experience in SaaS and preferably usage-based business models. You will report directly to the Head of Finance.  

• Play a central role in defining how the Strategic Finance function works and partner with stakeholders across the business.
• Build operational / financial models to analyze the business impact or ROI of key company initiatives, helping us evaluate tradeoffs between driving growth and profitability.
• Own and improve our ARR forecasting model for our subscription and usage-based products, while working closely with our revenue operations team to accurately predict business performance and influence investment decisions.
• Research and identify primary KPIs to define what operational excellence looks like across different functions within the business.
• Work with functional leaders to implement KPI tracking and advise on opportunities to strengthen execution.
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis of business trends in partnership with our revenue operations team to identify and articulate key drivers for stakeholders.
• Assess the impact of product, marketing or sales growth initiatives to support the business case for investment, and proactively identify tangential opportunities to further drive growth.
• Collect and analyze external financial / operational data, and interpret market trends and competitor activities to deliver benchmarking analysis and influence decision making for key stakeholders, including management and investors.
• Assist in consolidating operational and financial information in preparation for our quarterly board of directors meetings.

• Chartered Accountant or an MBA from a tier 1 Institute.
•  5+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or management consulting, with at least 2-4 years of experience in the strategic finance function within a fast-paced / rapidly scaling organization
• Experience of having worked in a global organization with peers in multiple countries and timezones
• Experience in SaaS, preferably with a usage-based business model component
• Excellent business partnering skills, particularly with non-financial leaders; track record of advising operational and financial improvements across multiple areas in the business
• Willingness and ability to operate at multiple levels - deep within the details and big picture - with strong awareness of when to leverage each to achieve a targeted outcome
• Advanced modeling skills, including strong understanding of bottoms-up financial modeling and tying together unit economics to the overall business impact
• Ability to jump into ambiguous questions or situations, identify the key variables and drive toward a successful outcome
• Ability to story-tell with data / analysis and distill complex topics and tradeoffs into a simple framework to influence decision making
• Extremely detail oriented, highly organized and able to balance multiple projects / thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Advanced experience with Excel / Google sheets, and BI tools (Tableau)

EEO Statement:At HighLevel, we value diversity. In fact, we understand it makes our organization stronger. We are committed to inclusive hiring/promotion practices that evaluate skill sets, abilities and qualifications without regard to any characteristic unrelated to performing the job at the highest level. Our objective is to foster an environment where really talented employees from all walks of life can be their true and whole selves, cherished and welcomed for their differences, while providing awesome service to our clients and learning from one another along the way!