We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us!
Your opportunity
Are you ready to move beyond routine analysis and truly influence the direction of a leading technology company?
We are seeking a highly motivated and intellectually curious Strategic Finance Manager to join New Relic’s Finance team. Reporting to the Senior Director of FP&A, this position is a key contributor to our investment decision-making and long-range planning, acting as an internal consultant to senior executives, including the SVP & Head of FP&A and the CFO.
The role involves supporting various aspects of long-range planning and investment decision-making, working closely with FP&A business partners and the executives they support. You will collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization to plan and mobilize specific recommendations into action. This 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 with a high degree of intellectual curiosity, exhibit superior analytical skills, demonstrate effective communication skills, and bring a proven ability to work with and lead teams. You will have the communication skills to combine both business and financial acumen, distilling complex business decisions into an articulate 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.
If you thrive on complexity, possess a powerful blend of business acumen and financial modelling expertise, and want to see the direct impact of your work on our global strategy, this is your platform.
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
- 7+ 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 workstreams 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, and passionate about big challenges
Bonus points if you have
- MBA and/or CFA are a plus
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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The pay range below represents a reasonable estimate of salary for the listed position. This role may be eligible for the corporate bonus plan. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related factors such as an applicant’s skills, qualifications, and experience.
New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time off, paid time-off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.
Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].
We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.
Our hiring process
In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.
We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.
New Relic develops and distributes encryption software and technology that complies with U.S. export controls and licensing requirements. Certain New Relic roles require candidates to pass an export compliance assessment as a condition of employment in any global location. If relevant, we will provide more information later in the application process.
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