Finance Manager

Job Description

At Blackline, were committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!

Youll Get To:

• Business Partner with Marketing leadership, operational, and GTM finance for resource and headcount planning, financial modeling, analysis, and reporting
• Own the monthly forecast updates, close, quarterly business reviews, and other critical inspection and decision mechanisms including presentation to executive management
• Prepare reports for management which will include financials, pipeline, key metrics, leading indicators and business performance analysis
• Analyze, forecast, and report on business activity, headcount planning, marketing spend, and incentive compensation
• Support for reporting on various metrics and KPI within Marketing, Sales, and Customer organization
• Perform ROI analysis & tracking on marketing program spend
• Identify areas of financial risks and opportunities
• Support enhancements to planning processes and systems
• Become a subject matter expert with our tools including but not limited to Adaptive Insights, NetSuite, Salesforce, and Tableau
• Assist with ad-hoc financial analysis, modeling, and projects

What Youll Bring:

• Minimum 5 to 7 years’ experience as Financial Analyst, Sales Analyst, Business Analyst or other similar roles
• Proven analytical capabilities and business acumen with the ability to simplify and distill complex business information in a consumable way
• Must be comfortable working in a high pace environment, be able to multi-task, and have a hands-on attitude
• Strong business partnership skills and ability to communicate financials with non-finance personnel
• Strong knowledge of financial planning and forecasting, financial modeling, financial accounting concepts and business process best practices
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and proven stakeholder management and influencing skills; comfortable collaborating with teams across the organization
• Team player with positive and can-do attitude
• Customer service/success orientation and a desire to help others succeed
• Ability to quickly gain proficiency in new financial systems
• SaaS or Subscription business model experience
• Experience with NetSuite, Salesforce, Tableau, and other SaaS-based tools (preferred)
• Candidate must be comfortable working in Pacific time zone

We’re Even More Excited If You Have:

• Experience with Adaptive Insights, NetSuite, Zuora, Salesforce, Tableau and other SaaS-based tools a plus

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the worlds most trusted name in Finance Automation!
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. Its a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• A culture where BlackLiners continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.