Senior Director of Finance & Strategy, Salesforce
Marketing
$218.1-332.6k
3 days a week in office
World's leading CRM provider
Be an early applicant
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$218.1-332.6k
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a proactive leader with deep experience in marketing finance, budgeting, forecasting, and team management
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field or equivalent experience. MBA or CPA preferred. Experience will be evaluated based on the Core Competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in Finance, with at least 5 years specifically in a Marketing Finance or Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) leadership role
- Proven experience managing a team of 5 or more finance professionals, ideally a team of 10 or more
- Strong knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Expert-level proficiency in financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Advanced skills in Excel and experience with enterprise-level ERP and financial planning systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Anaplan)
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced and strategic Marketing Finance Leader to oversee the financial planning, analysis, and reporting for our global marketing organization
- This role will lead a team of 10 finance professionals, providing strategic financial guidance to marketing leadership to drive efficiency, maximize return on investment (ROI), and ensure robust financial controls
- Serve as the primary finance partner to the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and other marketing executives, offering strategic financial insights and recommendations
- Lead the annual budgeting and long-range planning processes for the entire marketing organization
- Develop and implement financial models to evaluate marketing program effectiveness, including ROI and LTV/CAC analyses
- Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, reporting accuracy, and forecasting methodologies
- Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning. Team is approximately ten people
- Conduct regular performance reviews and provide coaching to ensure team members achieve their full potential
- Oversee workload distribution and project prioritization for the Marketing Finance team
- Manage the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, analyzing variances against budget and forecast
- Oversee the financial close process for marketing expenses, ensuring compliance with accounting policies
- Present financial findings and strategic recommendations to senior leadership
- Partner with Procurement and Legal teams on vendor contracts and expense management
- Collaborate with the Corporate Finance team to ensure alignment on company-wide financial goals and reporting standards
- Support audit requirements and ensure financial compliance across all marketing activities
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
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