Strategic Finance Manager, ForgeRock

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5-7 years of previous experience within investment banking, corporate development, consulting, advisory, or related expertise
• Expert financial modeling skills with strong understanding of SaaS profitability drivers and key metrics
• Ability to translate the takeaways of complex financial analyses into simple, actionable insights and content suited for C-suite level audiences
• Ability to work cross-functionally with leaders across the business to collect all relevant financial and operational inputs required in order to perform holistic analyses
• Experience creating and owning financial models to evaluate relative return profiles (ROI) across competing projects seeking additional budget funding

Desirable

• Ping Identity is seeking a highly motivated Strategic Finance Manager to join the Strategic Finance team. This role will report to the Director of Strategic Finance and be instrumental in driving data-driven decision-making across the organization, with a focus on M&A, capital deployment, and profitability analyses tied to new product initiatives
• This position will be highly cross-functional in nature and routinely partner with all corners of the business to accelerate and advance strategic priorities
• Build and maintain complex financial models to support prospective M&A transactions, acting as finance lead in analytical efforts encompassing valuation, return profile, accretion/dilution and sensitivity analyses
• Provide comprehensive financial support to Product and Business Ops teams across all stages of the M&A lifecycle, including early stage due-diligence, valuation, and post-acquisition integration
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on new product launches, market or product expansion efforts, and financial evaluation of build/buy/partner scenarios
• Develop a streamlined capital deployment framework that prioritizes ROI, enabling rapid decision-making while maintaining rigorous financial due diligence that ensures attainment of investment profile
• Supplement existing finance efforts to develop a more granular understanding of business profitability across Ping products, geographies, and defined customer cohorts
• Drive deep-dive ad-hoc financial analyses and support strategic initiatives as needed