Manager, Strategic Finance and Corporate Development

Your opportunity

This position reports to the Senior Director of FP&A and will be a key member of New Relic's Finance team. S/he will support various aspects of long range planning and investment decision making, working closely with our FP&A business partners and the executives they support. S/he will work with key stakeholders across the organization to plan and mobilize the specific recommendations into action. The position will involve analyzing and developing content for senior executive management, and presenting that content in an effective and persuasive way. The position requires a high level of diligence, maturity and analytical thinking, as the majority of the recommendations and insights will be focused towards the SVP & Head of FP&A and the CFO, helping them with decision making.

The ideal candidate will operate at a high level of intellectual curiosity, exhibit superior analytical skills, demonstrate effective communication skills, and bring a proven ability to work with and lead teams. S/he will have the communication skills and combine both business and financial acumen to distill business decisions into a financial model. The ideal candidate has a track record of creating detailed and complex financial models combined with executive level presentations. As with any position at this level within New Relic, this individual must be comfortable running multiple initiatives at a rapid pace and making pragmatic recommendations with limited information.

What you'll do

• Strategic Planning and Analysis:




• Assist with the development of and track multi-year Strategic Long Range Plan, informed by company strategy. Monitor progress against Plan key metrics, and drive follow ups to completion with critical stakeholders
• Conduct regular reviews of business performance and strategic alignment against the long range plan
• Track and analyze key business/financial KPIs, uncover trends and assess current/future business risks and opportunities




• Capital Allocation:




• Collaborate with key stakeholders to assist in development of new processes and investment decision making frameworks
• Evaluate, validate and pressure test investment decisions to help make strategic capital allocation around future growth initiatives and opportunities




• Strategic Initiative Evaluation:




• Assist in the quantitative evaluation of strategic growth initiatives, including new markets and business lines in conjunction with cross functional teams
• Provide data-driven insights to facilitate decision-making and influence strategy through advanced financial model building, reporting
• Execute ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address highly complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results




• Corporate Development:




• Support the end to end transaction process from ideation to model creation through integration
• Qualify potential targets from a quantitative and qualitative perspective
• Assist with pre-transaction diligence efforts
• Evaluate synergy opportunities and risks in potential transactions
• Conduct detailed financial modeling and valuation analyses
• Distill complex findings and build clear and compelling business cases for review by CFO
• Collaborate with Ecosystems and Strategic Alliances Team on deal origination




• Capital Markets:




• Support capital markets activity and Treasury team including potential debt capital markets transactions based on business needs




• Collaboration:




• Operate in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that is constantly evolving

This role requires

• 5+ years of work experience in financial analysis and full M&A process life-cycle in a combination of FP&A, corporate development, private equity, strategy/management consulting, investment banking and/or other related fields, including at least 3 years of experience either in or in a combination of a FP&A or corporate development role inside a company and/or in software focused private equity
• Strong financial, research and analytical skills with ability to assimilate data, extract insights, and make informed recommendations with conviction
• Highly organized with a strong attention to detail - we are responsible for everything
• Ability to problem solve and proactively project manage numerous work streams with competing timelines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to convey complex ideas in plain English to senior management and the board
• Experience aligning and driving cross-functional groups
• Passionate about big challenges
• MBA and/or CFA are a plus

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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