Director of R&D and Strategic Finance

We are looking for a Director, R&D and Strategic Finance, to act as a key finance partner to R&D leadership (Engineering, Product, and Strategy), owning budget management for these orgs while providing best-in-class financial modeling, analyses, and insights to enable data-driven decision-making and deliver against the company's multi-year financial plan.

You will play a key role in shaping the company's growth strategies by partnering with business leaders to assess performance, understand business drivers and levers, and model scenarios to accelerate growth and achieve financial targets.

Responsibilities:

• Own budget management for the R&D organizations (Engineering and Product), including planning, forecasting, and variance analysis to ensure alignment with the company's financial targets
• Build and maintain relationships with R&D leadership to identify and model potential growth initiatives, drive pivotal investment decisions, and provide recommendations to optimize return on strategic investments
• Lead and develop a small team responsible for supporting budgeting, financial modeling, and project execution across R&D
• Prepare high-quality business analyses, insights, and modeling on ad hoc projects for the COO, CFO, CTO, and other executive stakeholders
• Build and improve management reporting and analyses to provide timely, insightful, and actionable information to enable data-driven decision-making
• Develop a deep understanding of Tanium's product and go-to-market model, translating this into operational and financial information to monitor the health of the business
• Drive continuous improvement within financial processes, tools, and models, including ongoing enhancements to provide line of sight to risks and opportunities

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Finance
• Minimum of 8+ years of strategic/corporate finance, investment banking/management consulting, or experience at a high-growth technology company
• Experience leveraging AI to automate processes and improve efficiency
• Prior experience partnering with R&D organizations or GTM organizations, preferably in technology/software with subscription/SaaS models
• Experience working on complex business problems, leading to assessment of options, recommendations, and action plans
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced in PowerPoint and experience with PowerBI or other data visualization tools

Benefits:

• Annual base salary range: $206,000 to $316,000
• Equity awards
• Medical, dental and vision plan
• Family planning benefits
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending account
• Transportation savings account
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
• Life, accident and disability coverage
• Business travel accident insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Disability insurance
• Other well-being benefits