Finance & Strategy Manager - Corporate

About the team

The Finance & Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Apollo’s core functional leaders. Our team partners closely with business leaders to drive understanding and consistency to Apollo’s financial results and work cross-functionally to help improve strategic financial and operational decision-making at Apollo during a period of hyper-growth.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a Finance & Strategy Manager reporting to the Finance & Strategy Director who will focus on Corporate F&S initiatives to support our growing business. You will play a central role in shaping and executing on our planning forecasting and budgeting processes and also be the primary business partner to our G&A teams. You will help synthesize and consolidate key financial results and metrics to drive a unified understanding of business performance during a critical period of Apollo’s growth. The ideal candidate is highly self-motivated analytical and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to recurring management reporting and monthly deliverables including P&L summaries close reviews investor reporting and business performance metrics

• Support company-wide planning processes including Long Range Plan and Annual Plan

• Share valuable insights on operational and financial metrics as part of regular business reviews

• Drive review and selection of forecasting software tools to enable automation and scalable corporate F&S processes going forward

• Synthesize key financial and business insights for leadership - analyzing results business KPIs assessing risk and communicating timely risks & opportunities

• Partner with G&A leaders in their strategic and operational decision-making

• Own the consolidated expense forecast for the company including synthesizing inputs across the team

• Partner with recruiting team on headcount planning and capacity management

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience including at least 2+ years in a finance role at a high-growth company. Experience in investment banking or private equity is a plus

• High degree of comfort preparing professional robust bespoke financial analyses tailored to complex and ambiguous business situations

• Is highly analytical and detail-oriented with a strong aptitude and enthusiasm for complex problem-solving and a bias toward action

• Strong working knowledge of finance and accounting principles

• Strong business partnering and communication skills

• Nice-to-have: Proficient in SQL and Looker experience with PLG businesses and SaaS metrics