Senior Manager of Strategic Finance, Navan
$138.8-249k
3+ days a week in office
Travel management company
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Travel management company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$138.8-249k
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reinvent the legacy category of travel and expense with one of the first enterprise technologies utilising the cloud, mobile, and AI to balance business needs with today's modern standards.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 8+ years of demonstrated experience in a finance-related role (investment banking, consulting, or finance and operations within a top technology company)
- Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field is required. An MBA or relevant professional certification (e.g., CFA, CPA) is a plus
- Technical Skills: Strong financial modeling skills, expert proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, and experience with SQL. Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g., ThoughtSpot, Tableau, Power BI)
- Analytical Mindset: Proven ability to convey insights through data storytelling and influence decision-making
- Communication Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to meet deadlines and manage competing priorities
- Personal Attributes: Results-oriented with strong business judgment, high attention to detail, and a commitment to accuracy and controllership
- Adaptability: Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a strong bias for action and ownership
- Tools Familiarity: Experience with financial planning tools such as Anaplan, Cognos TM1, or Hyperion Essbase is a plus
- The ideal candidate combines strong technical skills with business insight, excels at data-driven storytelling, and thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- Navan is seeking a Sr. Manager to join our Travel Finance team
- This critical role involves driving financial analysis, forecasting, and reporting for the Navan Travel segment, as well as developing automated processes to scale our business
- Will partner closely with account management on all GTM, Revenue and COGS reporting
- You will drive the customer profitability story telling
- Strategic Partnership: Embedded with the business and providing strategic finance partnership to multiple executive leaders throughout the Navan Travel organization
- Financial Forecasting: Lead end-to-end financial forecasting processes (current quarter, current year, multi-year) for Navan Travel, including revenue, COGS, and gross margins
- Business Insights: Act as a subject matter expert on Navan Travel economics, providing business cases and assessments to guide strategic decisions relating to company growth and profitability initiatives
- Data Analysis: Investigate financial discrepancies, identify root causes, and effectively communicate findings to cross-functional teams
- KPI Reporting: Deliver clear and actionable KPI reporting to stakeholders, highlighting key trends and recommendations
- Process Automation: Evolve and automate financial models and reporting frameworks to support the business and enhance forecasting precision
Our take
Navan (formerly known as TripActions) is operating in a crowded marketplace, betting against rivals with similar offerings of user interface personalisation technology. Even so, the company's growth has skyrocketed and it has attracted significant investor interest. Competitors cannot match Navan's cutting-edge, AI-driven services, as well as 24-hour customer support.
Since its founding in 2015 the company has seen significant growth in transactions and in active users. Having expanded from its core travel expense management product, it now offers a corporate card and general expenses management, underwriting its customers' short term business expenses with its own Liquid financial offering. Navan has a list of impressive clients, including Glassdoor, Zoom, and Shopify.
Moving forwards, the company is focused on gaining more reach, especially in Europe. As part of the expanded go-to-market strategy, it rebranded to Navan with a more people-centric design approach. It also combined its travel, corporate card and expense services into a single app which is now available to individual users rather than only through a corporate account. This will be key in bridging the gap between business travel and consumer apps.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2022
$154m
SERIES G
Oct 2021
$275m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Flexible Vacation
- Healthcare
- Commuter benefits
- Parental leave
- Health and Wellness
- Fuel for Connection
- Pet Friendly
- 401k (retirement plan)
- IATAN (travel-related discounts)
- Connectivity Allowance
- Learning & Development
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Ariel Cohen
(CEO)Research and Development director in Mercury Interactive (and HP after acquisition of Mercury). Product Management director, then VP, at Jive Software. Previously co-founded StreamOnce with Ilan.
Ilan Twig
(CTO)Studied Computer Science, managing positions in software engineering including VP and EVP of engineering at Jive Software. Previously co-founded StreamOnce with Ariel.
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