Strategic Finance, Notion
Sales & Marketing (FP&A)
$180-200k
+ Equity
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
Job no longer available
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$180-200k
+ Equity
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of relevant finance/FP&A and investment banking/private equity experience; prior in-house FP&A experience is a requirement for the role
- Proficiency in accounting and experience with the month end close process, including preparation of the budget vs actuals reporting and accruals
- Experience driving budgeting, planning and forecasting processes
- Experience working with Marketing teams on both highly quantitative channels (Performance marketing, affiliates, etc.) and more qualitative channels (Brand, public relations, etc.)
- Exceptional analytical skills with both financial and operational data. Strong proficiency in Excel and working knowledge of SQL
- Willingness to partner with Data / Marketing teams to establish attribution frameworks for various channels to help monitor spend efficiency and develop a clear link between investment and returns
- High attention to detail, pride in your work quality, and emphasis on always being a truth-seeker
- Low ego and a hunger to learn, with an ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners to create alignment and drive the best outcome for Notion
Desirable
- B2B and B2C marketing experience a plus, but not required
- Experience with departmental headcount planning
What the job involves
- You will be the primary finance partner to our Marketing, Sales and CX orgs, helping them size the investments they want to make and driving accountability for delivering results
- This position will serve as both an advocate for the GTM team to empower their success and as the guardrails for Finance to ensure we are getting a high ROI
- Be the source of truth in Finance on all GTM (Sales, Marketing, CX) opex spend, setting annual budgets, creating detailed and accurate monthly reporting and maintaining a rolling forecast to make sure leadership has clear visibility into resource deployment
- Partner deeply with the Marketing team to continually understand their current strategy and ensure that they are adequately resourced to execute that plan, supporting their freedom to make tradeoffs in spend allocations to maximize outcomes
- Partner with the CX team to understand their staffing strategy and ensure they are able to scale our support offering in a financially efficient manner
- Collaborate with Accounting to ensure accurate accruals, and timely reporting of the monthly financials
- Support departmental specific analyses to help support GTM strategy, including LTV/CAC, payback benchmarks etc
Our take
Managing busy workflows using fragmented systems can be a headache for both individuals and businesses. Notion aims to combat this problem by enabling users to work from one central hub, customizing their workflows to suit their exact needs. This includes managing files, scheduling tasks, saving documents, writing to-do-lists, and setting reminders.
The company counts enterprise companies such as McDonald’s, The Wall Street Journal, Verizon, Samsung, and IBM as its customers. In spite of economic uncertainty, Notion reached a $2B valuation in 2020, helped by record signups as more people were forced to work from home. Its value has since risen to over 5 times this value, an impressive reflection of its success.
The company has also made a number of strategic acquisitions that, coupled with its enormous market value and enviable customer list, have Notion well-placed to continue dominating the market. However, with a growing wave of competitors emerging, including offerings like Microsoft Loop, Notion will need to keep innovating and evolving to maintain its edge and stay ahead in an increasingly crowded market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$275m
LATE VC
Apr 2020
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $335m
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ivan Zhao
(CEO)Ivan worked for Inkling for 2 years in Product, but was disappointed by the lack of a simple way of collaborating on projects. To fit this need, he co-founded Notion in 2013, serving as CEO since.
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