Manager, Finance Strategic Initiatives

Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Atlassian is seeking a Manager of Finance Strategic Initiatives to partner across the finance leadership team in driving critical cross-functional programs to desired results. If you are looking to make a big impact, partner with extraordinary talent, and take your career to the next level, we encourage you to join us in this exciting journey. You are a good fit if you are a self starter, adaptable, detail oriented, analytical, and have led complex cross-functional teams. You are a great candidate if you have a strong project/program management background and/or have experience working with large datasets to derive insights to inform planning efforts.
This role will be high impact and visible, closely aligned with the CFO's priorities and vision. Using your business experience, analytical skills and creativity, you will partner directly with the finance leadership team and take a leading role in driving cross-company finance strategy, growth, and business model evolution. You'll develop financial frameworks, own projects from inception to execution and delivery, ensuring that the solutions you develop are high-quality and provide actionable recommendations to business partners. You will also have the opportunity to evolve and lead operational programs, increasing efficacy and accountability around finance metrics/KPIs.
In this role, you'll get to:

• Build high level strategic opportunity and financial models to develop insights and drive recommendations
• Identify, develop strategic rationale, and size opportunities to inform company vision, strategy, and financial decisions
• Drive change by working closely with and creating alined, actionable recommendations with cross-functional partners across finance, strategy, analytics, product, and go-to-market
• Develop and maintain program plans, balance project schedules and provide regular updates and reports on project progress, dependencies and risks.
• Support the business cadence for the CFO, including periodic business updates to increase visibility and accountability around key metrics
• Own the execution of program initiatives with a focus on ensuring that the team is driving towards the best outcomes for our teams.
• Facilitate workshops and meetings amongst internal stakeholders to drive decisions in order to advance program goals.
• Engage with cross functional teams to build positive and collaborative partnerships and ensure programs are operating and executing according to goals and needs.

On your first day we'll expect you to:

• Have 8 years experience in program management, strategy, finance, or consulting; ideally have 2+ years' experience working at a scaling SaaS technology company
• Be a self-starter who is able to take leadership ideas and synthesize them into priorities, programs, structured analyses and recommendations that teams can implement effectively
• Be comfortable with data and ambiguity, and be able to both delve into the details and engage meaningfully on higher level business strategy
• Be able to articulately present and debate recommendations at the executive level, leveraging insights to tell a compelling story to help influence key decisions
• Have strong proficiencies financial and scenario modeling skills using Excel / Google Sheets (can perform complex functions)

More about the Finance team
Our finance team at Atlassian is a talented and collaborative team with a unique mix of backgrounds from the technology, consulting and financial services industries. Our functions include Accounting, FP&A, Procurement, Tax, Internal Audit, Treasury, and Investor Relations. We encourage decision-making at every level and highly value an open-minded approach and organizational transparency. We work closely with business teams and leadership across company functions to support the company's continued growth. You'll join a team that is not only intelligent, motivated, and passionate about Atlassian's products and customers, but also fun to work with.
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $134,600 - $179,500
Zone B: $121,200 - $161,600
Zone C: $111,800 - $149,000
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .