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About The Role

The Director of Strategic Finance will be a critical thinker, problem solver and process management expert driving Strategic Planning and Strategic Analysis across the Niche business.

The role will interface collaboratively with senior management and leaders across the organization to frame key strategic questions, analyze opportunities and drive the transition of learnings and insights into institutionalized policies, actions, processes and operations.

You will nurture important relationships and continuously seek areas of improvement across the business, with a focus on efficient growth.

This role will report to the CFO.

Primary Responsibilities

Strategic Planning : Build and execute the Company’s end-to-end strategic planning process. Conduct market research to identify emerging business opportunities, model potential scenarios and build business cases.

Manage the translation of business strategy deliverables to operational and financial plans. Be a trusted partner to senior management.

• Business Strategy and Operations : Provide the analytical, strategic and financial horsepower to key leaders to evaluate and understand the efficacy and strength of existing operations, and to evaluate and measure the ROI on new initiatives that align with the Company’s strategic and financial goals.
• Corporate Finance / M&A : Support CFO and CEO in strategic analysis, modeling and execution of capital raising and acquisitions.

Over time, build out the acquisition team to develop an acquisition strategy.

What You Will Do

During the First Month :

Dive in and develop an understanding of the Niche organization, our business model, our customers, products and strategic and business priorities.

This will be accomplished by meeting with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.

Within 3 Months :

• Take ownership of the strategic budget planning process. Establish core frameworks and processes for strategic planning and embed within core business operations.
• Partner with key business leaders to identify the highest priority business challenges and begin to address those topics with rigorous and strategic, financial and business analysis that result in new insights that will drive business decisions.

Within Six Months :

• Partner with CFO to determine the two-year plan to build out the team based on the organization’s needs determined by learnings in the first six months.
• Take responsibility as the quarterback’ for annual planning with strategic sessions with the CEO and leadership to understand strategic priorities, and then translate those priorities to effective communications to the broader organization that will drive OKRs and resource allocation.
• Each month, provide leadership with a report card’ on the most important business metrics to ensure that the company is driving results that are closely tied to company priorities and that issues are identified and addressed early.

Within 12 Months :

• Build trust across the organization as the go-to’ resource to understand, analyze and make recommendations on complex and challenging business issues and opportunities.
• Expand scope of responsibility within functions and across functions. Become a reliable, go-to and trusted business partner to senior executives on strategic initiatives and business plans

What We Are Looking For

• 8+ years of relevant experience in Strategic Planning, Strategic Analysis and Finance.
• Experience with Software-as-a-Service business models a plus.
• Prior experience in Strategy, Consulting, Investment Banking or similar roles that required rigorous thinking to drive strategic and business decisions.
• Confidence and ability to influence business leadership to drive actions, behaviors, decisions, and business outcomes.
• Highly motivated, self-starter with ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, simultaneously manage several priorities, and challenge the status quo to lead change and operational improvements.
• Attention to details and ability to synthesize large volumes of data into insightful recommendations to senior leadership.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Advanced proficiency in financial modeling and written presentations.

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Why Niche ?

• We are a fully flexible workforce empowering our employees to choose to work remotely, in our Pittsburgh office or whatever combination suits you
• Full time, salaried position with competitive compensation in a fast-growing company
• Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including vision and dental and supplemental coverage
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy
• Stipend that allows you to build your work from home office in a style and function that suits your personal preferences
• Ability to join our diversity committee (Niche Diversity Initiative) to shape company-wide programs and events
• Parental leave for all employees (12 weeks fully paid) in addition to short term disability for birthing parents
• Meaningful Stock options and 401(k) with employer match
• Your ideas and work will make an immediate impact on our company and millions of users
• You will join a team that cares about you, our mission, our work - and celebrates our wins together!

Niche will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future for this opening.