Senior Financial Analyst
Apogee, United States
Job Description
We're Apogee. Nice to meet you. At our core, we're an IT-services organization that happens to focus on higher education. We touch the lives of binge-watching, music-loving, game-playing, finals-taking, seminar-attending, class-selecting students by providing IT infrastructure that meets today's needs technology-savvy generation.
We work hard, celebrate success, and challenge everyone in our organization to be a problem solver. If you are as passionate as we are about the intersection of technology and education, join us today.
The mission the Senior Financial Analyst is to cut through the noise to help our product teams make better decisions. You will build and lead by leveraging a unique combination of analytical skills, strategic problem solving, and business intuition across a range of high-impact projects to shape the future of the products at Apogee.
Apogee is headquartered in Austin, TX and this role is approved to work from home in the US. You will report to the Chief Technology Officer.
The BIG picture:
Strategy. Provide management visibility into data-driven insights that inform the business’s strategic direction, product development priorities and financial performance of Apogee’s product portfolio.
Collaboration. Work closely with internal departments and leaders to determine KPIs and contribute to product strategy. You will act as a force multiplier, enhancing the team's efforts and impact.
Analytics. Build, maintain and improve the existing business intelligence and analytics tools across the department (and business).
Here's your day to day:
- Build, manage, and develop a set of analytics to use to evaluate and price out services across the range of Apogee product areas
- Build relationships with product, engineering, design, sales, and ops to drive strong cross-functional collaboration and prioritization
- Partner closely with product teams from question to execution, using data-driven insights to ensure we are building the right things
- Report out on the achievements and impact of initatives
- Ensure that our data is trustworthy, reliable, and easy to access
- Build and maintain a simple, yet powerful pricing models to enable financial analysis of profit margin per service area
- Analyze and report out on ROI for all products
- Leverage data in Salesforce.com and other sources to help model and forecast demand for new services
Requirements
- Excellent at breaking down unstructured problems and synthesizing many disparate sources of information into clear and actionable insights
- Digital native who can use our suite of core systems/applications: ServiceNow, SalesForce, and NetSuite
- Strong analytical foundation in SQL and experimentation, with the ability to coach other members of the Product team
- Executive level communication skills including ability to use verbal and written communication to express ideas clearly and succinctly
- Ability to operate a high degree of autonomy and ownership
- Curious, low ego, and enjoy learning from and working with a wide range of people
- 5+ years of experience in analytical roles spanning product analytics, data science, product management, consulting, and finance.
Benefits
Our employees enjoy benefits that make them more productive and contribute directly to the development of their professional skills. We want to be able to attract the best of the best and make sure they keep getting better so here is what we are offering:
- An attractive salary
- Health insurance plan including Health Savings Account matching program
- Monthly technology stipend
- Engineering and Technical teams receive cash bonuses for obtaining certifications
- Maternity and Paternity leave
- Peer recognition program
- Career development programs
Diversity Commitment Statement
At Apogee, we believe education is a doorway to a fair and just society. Within our own walls, we stand committed to creating a healthy culture of diversity and inclusion, to empowering one another as advocates for an inclusive workplace, and to doing so transparently. Apogee employees founded three employee-led groups in 2020 including Diversity and Inclusion, Civic Awareness, and Apogee Veterans.
Accommodation Statement
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