Who We Are
Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.
Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.
As a Finance Manager at Motive, you will provide support to the Sales, Sales Operations, Supply Chain, and Hardware Engineering teams by facilitating unit- demand, data, subscription, and inventory planning.
In this role, you will enable data-driven decisions by providing financial and operational analytics, insights, and recommendations. We’re looking for an independent thinker, someone meticulous about drilling down and understanding data, a self-starter, a great communicator, and someone who enjoys collaborating and business partnering with diverse and talented people.
What You'll Do:- Forecasting – Develop both Sales and Return demand rolling forecast, reporting, and analysis. Combine both quantitative and qualitative research to improve forecasting accuracy, highlight risks and opportunities.
- Supply Chain - Partner with Supply Chain to develop insightful analysis on inventory, spot buys, PPV, and freight. Develop KPI metrics to measure supply chain costs.
- Business Performance Reporting: Support development of monthly/quarterly management review presentations. Manage annual, monthly, weekly, and daily reporting.
- Business Partnering – Develop trusted relationships with Sales, Finance, and Supply chain leadership. Collaborate with leaders to understand Key drivers, trends, and opportunities and share insights and recommendations.
- Business Processes and Reporting – Become acquainted with business processes and highlight reporting automation and process improvements opportunities. Assist with the development and maintenance of Tableau dashboards and other business intelligence reporting.
- Operational Projects and Ad-hoc Analysis - Collaborate on inventory-related projects and ad-hoc analyses to support leaders’ business decisions.
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Strong financial modeling, forecasting, statistics, and analytics skills
- Strong communication and cross-collaboration skills with both peers and executives
- Experience with SaaS metrics, Supply Chain inventory, and GAAP accounting concepts
- Expert in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.
- Tableau, Adaptive and SQL / Macro programming experience are a plus.
- Hands-on experience preferred on NetSuite, Salesforce, and Zuora.
- Experience in a fast-paced, startup environment
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
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