Who You Are
Justworks is looking for a Director, Financial Planning & Analysis. This is a brand new position we are opening to support our continued business growth and will report to the VP, Finance. You are someone who thrives in a fast-paced and growing company where you can lean into all areas of FP&A from board and management financial reporting to leading the budget planning process to managing the process, consolidation and reporting of company-wide forecasts and actual performance.
You are highly effective at collaborating cross-functionally and can translate your work across a broad spectrum of users. You are also proud to evangelize finance best practices and policies that will help our organization scale. As a critical leader in our business, you will partner with leadership and help drive our business forward. As a manager, you will continue to build a best-in-class finance team that will help build a business for the ages!
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Lead and grow a lean team that supports strategic business decision making through financial modeling and analysis for business and product teams, including ad hoc modeling and analysis
- Drive Board and Management reporting, including managing monthly internal financial reporting and variance analysis, quarterly internal business reviews and quarterly Board reporting
- Work in close collaboration with the People team on headcount planning and reporting and oversee financial budget/forecast for payroll and stock-based compensation.
- Partner with Accounting and functional leads to continually develop & execute standardized reporting and support continuous enhancement of the monthly reporting and close processes
- Oversee and refine long range, driver based financial models for the business in partnership with cross-functional teams.
- Lead and manage a team responsible for the preparation of the annual budget and quarterly forecast process, including setting timelines and deliverables, analysis of consolidated projections and preparing management-level presentations.
- Serve as a thought partner and trusted business advisor to our revenue-facing org - owning relationships with key stakeholders and consulting with business leaders to understand their business environment and act as a sounding board for proposed projects and initiatives
- Establish a deep understanding of the business and leverage data to build insights about our markets, products and competitors.
- Develop and deliver robust, consistent and accurate analysis of business performance using KPI dashboards and non-financial data to highlight performance.
- Partner with Corporate Development and Strategy to incorporate M&A and new revenue streams
- Support VP, Finance in Board and investor presentations, including support in M&A activities
How You Will Do Your Work
As a Director, Financial Planning and Analysis, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following:
- Detail-oriented - exercises extreme attention to detail; is thorough, accurate, organized, and productive and seeks to understand both the cause and effect of a situation.
- Analytical - uses a logical reasoning process to break down and work through a situation or problem to arrive at an outcome.
- Good judgement - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
- Organizational awareness - maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics.
- Business insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional experience in a Finance or Accounting role, 3+ years within FP&A preferred
- Experience in helping drive toward IPO readiness
- Mastery of financial modeling (3-statement, NPV, M&A) and spreadsheet functionality
- Adaptive, Tableau and NetSuite experience preferred
- Working knowledge of SQL, GAAP and Python a plus
- Experience using FP&A software, e.g. Host Analytics, Adaptive Insights, Hyperion
- Systems implementation and integration experience
- Differentiated ability to present and communicate financial information and analysis
- Ability to work with and influence non-finance teams based on robust data and analysis
- Ability and desire to be hands on in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment
- Ability to manipulate and model large volumes of data, interpret and identify pertinent issues
- Strong analytical skills and critical thinking ability
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $198,000 to $237-600 per year.
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