Senior Finance Manager, Sales and Marketing

IFS

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

As the Senior Finance Manager for Sales & Marketing, your key areas of responsibility will include Sales Performance Analysis, Forecasting and Planning, Marketing Finance Support, Business Partnering, and Management Reporting and Analytics. You will analyze bookings, ACV, ARR, revenue, pipeline, win rates, sales productivity, and quota attainment, assessing performance by region, segment, channel, product, and sales team to identify trends, risks, and opportunities. You will provide clear recommendations to improve growth, conversion, productivity, and forecast outcomes. You will prepare and coordinate monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts for supported Sales and Marketing functions, and support annual budgeting and long-range planning, including headcount, program spend, commissions, and growth assumptions. You will build scenario models and evaluate forecast accuracy, key sensitivities, and performance drivers. You will monitor marketing spend against budget and forecast, explaining material variances and projected outcomes, and evaluate marketing investment using pipeline contribution, conversion, customer acquisition cost, campaign effectiveness, and return on investment. You will act as a trusted finance partner to Sales, Marketing, Revenue Operations, and Finance stakeholders, facilitating performance and forecast reviews, translating financial data into practical business implications, and constructively challenging assumptions while highlighting financial risks, opportunities, and required actions. You will develop executive dashboards, management reporting, and concise performance narratives, deliver variance analysis versus Budget, Forecast, and Prior Year, with clear drivers and recommended actions, and improve reporting tools, models, data quality, automation, and KPI definitions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• Approximately five or more years of relevant experience in FP&A, commercial finance, sales finance, marketing finance, or finance business partnering.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial modeling, and management reporting experience.
• Advanced Excel skills and demonstrated ability to work with large datasets and complex business drivers.
• Experience in utilizing AI capabilities to drive efficiencies and automate tasks.
• Experience communicating financial insights to senior non-finance stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical thinking, attention to detail, organization, and ability to manage competing priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting Sales, Marketing, Revenue Operations, or broader go-to-market teams in a software or technology environment.
• Working knowledge of SaaS and commercial metrics, including ARR, ACV, bookings, pipeline coverage, win rate, CAC, and marketing ROI.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, DAX, ERP, CRM, or enterprise planning tools.
• Professional finance qualification, or progress toward one, such as CPA, CMA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Analyze bookings, ACV, ARR, revenue, pipeline, win rates, sales productivity, and quota attainment.
• Assess performance by region, segment, channel, product, and sales team to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Provide clear recommendations to improve growth, conversion, productivity, and forecast outcomes.
• Prepare and coordinate monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts for supported Sales and Marketing functions.
• Support annual budgeting and long-range planning, including headcount, program spend, commissions, and growth assumptions.
• Build scenario models and evaluate forecast accuracy, key sensitivities, and performance drivers.
• Monitor marketing spend against budget and forecast, explaining material variances and projected outcomes.
• Evaluate marketing investment using pipeline contribution, conversion, customer acquisition cost, campaign effectiveness, and return on investment.
• Partner with Marketing leadership on prioritization, resource allocation, and investment trade-offs.
• Act as a trusted finance partner to Sales, Marketing, Revenue Operations, and Finance stakeholders.
• Facilitate performance and forecast reviews, translating financial data into practical business implications.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and highlight financial risks, opportunities, and required actions.
• Develop executive dashboards, management reporting, and concise performance narratives.
• Deliver variance analysis versus Budget, Forecast, and Prior Year, with clear drivers and recommended actions.
• Improve reporting tools, models, data quality, automation, and KPI definitions.

Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid work opportunities
• Inclusive workplace experiences
• Sense of community
• Opportunities to drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior