Senior Financial Analyst, Vanta
R&D
$142-167k
Offers Equity
Automated compliance and security provider
Open for applications
Automated compliance and security provider
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$142-167k
Offers Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To secure the internet and protect consumer data.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 4+ years of corporate finance, investment banking or comparable experience with fast-paced start-up (ideally SaaS) in Strategic Finance or FP&A
- Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs/Sheets/Slides. Bonus for experience in SQL and NetSuite
- Analytical Mindset: Strong capability to tackle projects, extract key insights, and translate them into actionable strategies that drive business impact
- Teamwork: Ability to work effectively and establish relationships with business partners. Bonus for experience partnering with EPD functions
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying financial insights in a comprehensible and engaging manner
- Accountability: Be highly entrepreneurial and comfortable owning your work in a fast-paced environment
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, or other analytical discipline
What the job involves
- The Strategic Finance team drives leverage and investing in opportunities for growth
- Our team is tasked with building targets, setting budgets, and helping leaders execute against plans
- This encompasses a wide breadth of business partnership and reporting for the Executive Team and Board of Directors
- This dynamic team is responsible for in-depth data analysis and strategic awareness that drive decisions and the overall direction of the company
- As a Senior Financial Analyst, EPD at Vanta, you will be a financial liaison between the Strategic Finance team and the EPD (Engineering, Product, and Design) functions at the company
- You will be instrumental in budgeting, forecasting, providing strategic guidance, and completing various projects related to investments Vanta makes across EPD activities
- This role will report into the Senior Manager of Strategic Finance, EPD and provides the opportunity to blend financial know-how, thought leadership, and business partner
- What you’ll do as a Senior Financial Analyst at Vanta:
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Act as a trusted Finance partner for EPD teams and their leaders. Enable key stakeholders on insights produced and provide recommendations to improve business outcomes
- Exhibit financial expertise: Help drive the budget, operating model, and long-term financial plan for Vanta EPD initiatives
- Deliver strategic insights: Lead financial efforts and provide insights on various projects such as EPD team resourcing and forecasting, return on investment for engineering project spend, new product initiatives, and other spend analysis projects
- Think critically: Identify topics that merit further investigation and utilize data and frameworks to provide new perspective
- Deliver results: Prepare recommendations on incremental investment opportunities by weighing financial and strategic trade-offs
Our take
The security auditing process is usually very time-consuming, taking hours to complete, and it is often difficult for start-ups to invest time into such a process. Yet, the benefits of security accreditation are enormous, mainly as many such businesses are working globally and need ways to demonstrate security compliance to one another. Vanta works specifically with start-ups to help them complete and pass security audits such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
The company is a compliance portal and security monitoring platform that businesses use to assess their risk levels. Vanta carries out a pre-audit of a company's digital security and highlights areas that need to be worked on before a full analysis of all threats is carried out. Other businesses such as Datadog or PagerDuty offer similar security monitoring services, but Vanta monitors its customers throughout the year, allowing any issues to be identified and addressed early on.
Vanta has found a valuable cybersecurity niche within the giant SaaS market. Companies such as Lattice, Clubhouse, and Calm are all customers, demonstrating a growing trend for companies to manage their cybersecurity proactively, which Vanta should be able to take advantage of to further grow and develop into the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$150m
SERIES C
Sep 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $353m
Company benefits
- Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
- Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
- Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
- 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Christina Cacioppo
(CEO)Worked in Investment at Union Square Ventures, before becoming a Professor at the School of Visual Arts. Co-founded Nebula Labs, and worked in Product Management at Dropbox.
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