About the Role
As a Senior Manager of FP&A and Finance Operations at Vanta, you will be instrumental in scaling the financial backbone of the company. This role was created to address a critical need: ensuring financial rigor and reducing operational risk as our business grows more complex. You’ll partner closely with the Head of FP&A and Strategic Finance and cross-functional leaders to manage corporate consolidations, enforce spend discipline, and operationalize finance processes. By doing so, you’ll not only strengthen our day-to-day execution but also unlock new strategic capacity for the Finance team and Vanta as a whole. This role is ideal for someone who combines financial expertise with a builder’s mindset and thrives in creating scalable systems that enable growth. You will use sound business judgement and critical thinking to unlock growth within the business.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Strategic Finance pods, Accounting, and business leaders to ensure accurate financial reporting and to deliver actionable insights.
- Manage consolidations and updates of the corporate financial model, incorporating actuals and updating assumptions to reflect business shifts.
- Prepare budget vs. actual reviews and support organizational planning.
- Oversee headcount management and movement tracking to forecast and manage departmental costs.
- Operate as Finance liaison for the annual operating plan and long range planning processes.
- Assist in investor relations and M&A activity.
- Serve as the FP&A approver on business transactions.
- Identify major swings in spend, track against budget, and adjust forecasts in real time.
- Build and maintain documentation for finance operations to reduce risk, support functional onboarding, and ensure scalability within the Strategic Finance Team.
- Share responsibilities with existing finance leadership, expanding the team’s reach into strategic and analytical support across the business.
Requirements
- 8+ years of related experience, ideally in corporate finance, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), investment banking, or investment management.
- FP&A or strategic finance experience supporting SaaS businesses and/or the tech industry is critical.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs/Sheets/Slides.
- Strong capability to tackle projects, extract key insights, and translate them into actionable strategies that drive business impact.
- Proven ability to work effectively and establish relationships with business partners.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying financial insights in a comprehensible and engaging manner.
- Time and project management skills, the curiosity and drive to dig a level deeper.
- Passion for systematizing processes, reducing bottlenecks, and creating scalable solutions.
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, or equivalent.
Nice to Have
- Experience in SQL and NetSuite.
- Cloud FP&A experience with tools such as Anaplan, Adaptive, Planful, etc.
- Master’s degree or higher.
Team
Structure: Part of the broader Finance team; works closely with Strategic Finance pods, Accounting, and business leaders.. Reports to: Head of FP&A and Strategic Finance
Additional Information
- Flexible work hours and location
- Open PTO policy
- 11 paid holidays in the US
- Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, and Sydney
