Lead Financial Analyst

Who we are: 

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. Motive combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to connect and automate physical operations. Motive is one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world, serving more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

Motive is built on four foundational attributes; Own It, Less but Better, Build Trust, and Unlock Potential. This has taken our company to great heights, including being recognized by Fortune for Best Workplaces, Forbes Best Startup Employers, and Comparably for our Best Global Culture, Sales Team, Leadership Team, Career Growth, and CEO for Diversity. We’re proud to receive an employee net promoter score of 63 (according to Comparably) which places Motive in the top 5% of companies with 4,000 employees or more. 

Today, our team is made up of more than 3,000 employees, located across the world, providing support to a wide range of customers. While most of our employees are remote, many have the opportunity to work on-site at any of our 8 global office locations. Visit our careers website to learn more about opportunities at Motive. 

About This Role

Motive has an exciting opportunity to join our growing FP&A team. The FP&A team partners with business leaders throughout the company to drive financial and strategic decisions. We provide analysis supporting a wide range of business issues and manage financial processes such as planning, forecasting, reporting and performance tracking.

This position will be the finance partner for our G&A org - generating insights into business performance and providing Motive’s leadership team with effective decision-making support. In this role, you will have plenty of C-level visibility and will report into the Senior Manager of Corporate FP&A.  

What You'll Do

• Partner with G&A leadership to maintain monthly/quarterly/annual forecasts for global G&A departments
• Conduct monthly budget vs actual variance analyses to share results and actionable insights with your business partners
• Develop a deep understanding of the G&A org, including risks, opportunities, hiring needs, etc. You will be the go-to finance for questions about your area
• Create reports, models, and ad hoc analyses to help management evaluate the impact of decisions on short and long term plans
• Build out and assist with delivering monthly & quarterly management reporting, including executive level budget vs. actuals, dashboards, and board materials
• Assist with the preparation of external materials, including quarterly financials, key metric datasets, and other ad hoc investor requests
• Support the broader FP&A team with annual and long-range planning
• Work cross-functionally to drive process improvement and automate 
• Coordinate across our FP&A team to review and influence the key expense and headcount assumptions driving our business 
• Create, maintain and review complex financial models in excel/gsheets as well as Adaptive Insights.
• Develop competitive benchmarking analysis on our P&L and other key financial and operating metrics
• Identify, prioritize, and implement process improvements and automation to streamline current processes across the company

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of relevant Finance experience
• Experience at a high growth SaaS company preferred
• Experience supporting a public company preferred
• Strong understanding of GAAP accounting and key non-GAAP metrics
• Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy and quality of output
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and proven experience in cultivating collaborative working relationships with teams across an organization
• Ability to step back and look at the big picture. Mind set to optimize processes across the company by looking at what should be done now, not what has always been done.
• Excellent modeling and forecasting skills with experience in P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow planning
• Expert in excel and google sheets, experience with Adaptive Insights and NetSuite is a big plus

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

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