Senior Finance Manager - R&D
About The Position
Atlassian is seeking a Senior Manager to join the Financial Planning & Analysis team (FP&A). In this visible position, you'll oversee the consolidation and reporting of $1B of quarterly spend as well as drive finance optimization. You will partner directly with FP&A and finance leaders and drive value with a particular focus on leading the FP&A Commercial Finance planning and monthly/quarterly forecasting processes. Atlassian has a business model, with a focus on growth and profitability, that is rare among its growth technology peers. We also have an analytics DNA that runs deep through the company's core. FP&A is a highly visible team in the organization at the intersection of both these focus areas. The FP&A team is a talented and collaborative team with a unique mix of technology industry, consulting and financial services background. Our responsibilities include facilitating planning, providing insight into business performance, supporting strategic decision making and helping predict the future of the business. We encourage decision-making at every level and highly value an open-minded approach and organizational transparency. We work closely with business leaders across all areas of the business to support the Company’s continued growth. You'll join an extraordinary team that is passionate about Atlassian, its products, and its customers.
Requirements
- Ability to prioritize objectives in a fast-paced environment to ensure key deliverables are met in a timely manner
- Experience with simultaneously managing multiple business stakeholders' budgets
- Excellent critical thinking, organizational, and prioritization skills
- Demonstrate attention to detail and follow-through
- Team player who can also self-initiate
- Possess a strong work ethic with a “get-it-done” attitude
- Strong critical thinking, organizational, and collaboration skills
- An effective communicator who is concise, timely, and able to explain finance and accounting to non-finance partners
- Efficient with managing tasks that require collaboration with stakeholders in different time zones
- Comfortable with senior leaders and even challenging the status quo when it's in the business’s best interests
- A minimum of 7 years FPA experience with at least 3 years supporting an R&D organization.
- Experience with planning and budgeting processes, financial forecasting, P&L management, interpreting and reporting business performance results
- Anaplan or other Enterprise planning tools is required
- Advanced proficiency in financial modeling
- Strong technical fundamentals - excel, database / data warehousing concepts and finance systems (CRM & ERP)
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Finance, Accounting, Economics)
Nice To Haves
- Prior software sector experience is highly preferred, Cloud/SaaS is a strong plus.
- MBA and/or CPA is a plus
Responsibilities
- Lead, influence and shape the R&D investment and finance strategy that directly connects with our ability to deliver differentiated, agile innovation in the AI era and deliver on topline and bottom line goals
- Shape the capital allocation decisions by providing data-driven insight, building predictive scenario models, and tracking post-investment performance.
- Own and drive FP&A Commercial Finance planning processes including monthly outlooks, quarterly rolling forecasts and long-range planning.
- Build finance principals and controls needed to operationalize annual and long term plans and facilitate finance optimization efforts to enhance financial planning effectiveness and efficiency.
- Serve as the liaison between FP&A Commercial Finance team and other CFO functions to manage the month end, quarter end and year end calendar and processes
- Provide monthly and quarterly reporting that is succinct, consistent & insightful, providing leaders with the insights they need to drive financial results.
- Own, lead and manage finance initiatives / projects end to end, working cross-functionally with various business partners in procurement, accounting and finance teams.
- Take a leadership role in ad-hoc projects like driving efficiency of spend so that we are in line with best in class software companies.
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Benefits
- health and wellbeing resources
- paid volunteer days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
