Finance Business Partner

The Team:

The Finance organization at Celonis is a strategic partner to our business, responsible for steering growth, profitability, and capital allocation across the company.

Within Finance, the Go-To-Market (GTM) Finance team partners closely with the GTM executive leadership (Sales, Value Engineering, Marketing, Services, Partner & Ecosystem) to drive predictable, efficient growth and to ensure financial discipline in every aspect of our go-to-market engine.

The GTM Finance team is critical to Celonis’ successful go-to-market execution and operates in a highly visible environment to executive leadership. The goals and objectives of the GTM FInance team include:

Guiding and supporting executive GTM leadership to achieve their operational & financial objectives
Providing objective, data-driven insights that assist in strategic decision making
Acting as a trusted advisor and advocate to the GTM leadership
Developing and operating relevant KPI measurement frameworks to help steering business performance
Contributing to drive the overall financial success of Celonis
The Role:

The North America GTM Finance Business Partner (NAM GTM Finance BP) will be the Finance Partner to the North America General Manager, who owns the GTM execution in North America. He (She) will also be a key part of a fast paced, highly effective, global GTM Finance team and will collaborate closely with the NAM Revenue Strategy & Operations team. This role will report into the Vice President of GTM Finance. The role will include:

Finance business partnership support for our global Go-to-Market organization in North America — build trusted relationships with key business partners, combining commercial acumen with data-driven analysis to provide insightful recommendations
Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting — analyzing financial results, distilling key trends, assessing current and future business risk, and presenting key messages to senior leadership
Drive core financial planning and analysis processes for North America, including annual operating plan, rolling forecasting for bookings, revenue, and expenses
Develop and analyze key performance indicators across, supporting key business stakeholders
Ad-hoc financial analysis to assess new strategic initiatives and projects
Communicate and present results of analysis to NAM executive leadership
Utilize Workday and Pigment for management reporting and variance analysis
That qualifications you need:

10+ years of progressively responsible experience in FP&A, business/commercial finance, or related field.
BA/BS degree, concentrations in Finance, Economics, and/or Accounting preferred; MBA from top program is a plus
Technology and/or SaaS experience
Professional Services P&L experience
Highly advanced Excel skills with extreme attention to detail
Ability to embrace ambiguity and break down complex problems to provide clear and effective recommendations
Impeccable analytical skills and intellectual curiosity to understand drivers and outcomes
Excellent communication skills; can establish credibility, build consensus, and partner cross-functionally without direct authority
Ability to interpret data, order and assess its value and present the findings to the relevant stakeholders in a clear and concise way
Team player with the ability to partner cross functionally in growing global organization