Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, AppZen
$155-170k
More information about location
3 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
AI software for finance teams
Posted today
AI software for finance teams
201-500 employees
Posted today
$155-170k
More information about location
3 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help modern finance teams lead the way with artificial intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- You must be hands-on with a “roll up your sleeves" mentality and should enjoy a fast-paced, start-up environment as well as the demonstrated experience building and scaling financial systems and processes
- Equally important to strong financial and business partner skills, the individual will embrace change and the task of creating an infrastructure to support future growth as the Company expands
- Particularly important traits and skills include curiosity, intelligence, logical thinking, ability to prioritize, enthusiasm for change
- BS in Finance, Accounting Economics or related field; MBA bonus
- 8+ years of experience at high growth technology; start up experience preferred
- Strong financial modeling, business planning, and corporate planning experience
- Proven experience working in a SaaS or other subscription-based company, with a deep understanding of recurring revenue models and customer lifetime value
- Experience using and implementing financial planning software, NetSuite, SFDC, and commissions tools
- Strong analytical and problem solving skill with attention to detail
- Ability to create detailed financial models and forecasts, applying quantitative analysis to drive business performance improvements
What the job involves
- AppZen located in San Jose, is currently seeking a highly motivated individual for the position of Manager FP&A, reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer
- As our Finance Manager, you will be a key contributor for the financial operations of our rapidly growing company
- You will be responsible for providing financial planning, modeling, forecasting, and business partner support to the FP&A team and overall business
- This position will support the annual planning process, monthly close, rolling forecasting, and preparing Board and management reports and analysis
- Support all corporate financial planning including quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, long-term modeling, and ad hoc analysis
- Accurately analyze and explain key ARR, billings, revenue and cost drivers and month-end variances
- Support month end close by partnering with accounting and the business
- Prepare presentations in support of board meetings, monthly/quarterly senior leadership meetings of the company
- Develop and maintain robust financial models to support strategic decision-making, including forecasting ARR, revenue, expenses, and commission
- Provide reporting, insight and analysis of the monthly and quarterly financial package
- Provide finance business partner support across the business delivering meaningful insight and financial decision support
- Monitor and analyze department work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources
- Lead and support future finance planning systems implementation and process improvements
- Collaborate cross-functionally to continually improve metrics alignment, consistency, data integrity, and automation
- Act as a resource to strategic partners across the business, delivering meaningful insight and financial decision support
Our take
AppZen is setting out to help companies cut down on the expensive and time-consuming process of auditing expense reports with its suite of smart AI tools. As its AI solution is also more accurate than manual finance processes, it greatly reduces human error which can lead to duplicate spend or overlooking instances of fraud.
Boasting an 80% reduction in processing times and a 5% reduction in total spend, AppZen has swiftly established itself as a leader in AI finance software. It is used by over a thousand finance teams in enterprises such as Amazon, Nvidia, and Salesforce.
AppZen faces a large number of competitors in the finance automation space, with startups such as Expensify and Spendesk operating in the sector along with industry stalwarts such as SAP developing their own solutions. However, Appzen has carved out a strong early lead and has a large and rapidly growing client base. As it continues to develop its product it seems likely to maintain its market-leading position.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2019
$50m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $101m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees
- 401(k) match
- $250 annual reimbursement for continuous learning
- Lots of office perks like snacks, happy hours, company events
Company values
- Obsess about customers: We put our customers first no matter what. We do everything we can to walk in your shoes, and are relentless about providing you value
- Earn trust: We’re consistent, credible, trustworthy, and transparent. We make trustworthy commitments and deliver on them. We aren’t afraid to give it to you straight, even when it’s bad news
- Innovate and be fearless: We work to be the best in AI and beyond. We solve problems creatively and believe that all improvements are valuable, even incremental ones. We’re always learning, and we never accept the status quo
- Act with urgency: We love what we do and pursue it with energy. We move quickly, learn, and iterate
- Be caring and compassionate: We have respect, appreciation, and empathy for each other, our customers, and our community. We fill buckets. We don’t tolerate jerks
Company HQ
Alviso, San Jose, CA
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Leadership
Anant Kale
(CEO)Having studied in Mumbai, they worked as an ASI Consultant for 3 years prior to over a decade at Fujitsu. They left their role as VP of Applications to co-found AppZen in November 2012.
Kunal Verma
(CTO)They spent nearly 7 years at Accenture, first as Requirements Engineering Lead Researcher and later as Data Management Lead Researcher. They left this role to co-found Appzen.
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