Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis - Senior Director

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About the role:
We are looking for a Senior Director, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis who is a critical thinker and is ready to make an impact. This person must bring a high level of energy along with a can-do attitude and a sense of curiosity. You will be responsible for maintaining and progressing the full corporate model. You’ll be engaging with the cross-functional teams (within Finance and outside of finance) to build the Company’s operating plan and yearly budget. You will be responsible for establishing and communicating with budget owners and finance business partners headcount and opex envelopes and subsequent tracking of those budgets at the corporate level. This position has exposure to all executives across the organization and will be critical for building out the finance structure and profile for Kong as we grow into a public market leader.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with a broad range of cross-functional leaders to obtain assumptions, identify key metrics, assess impacts, and run sensitivity/scenario analysis to provide decision support.

• Reporting on, analyzing, and providing proactive business insights into revenues and expenses.

• Developing and maintaining the corporate forecast models to produce the annual operating plan, scenario planning as well as the most up to date operating plan in order to assess overall company performance in relation to targets.

• Drive the quarterly/annual budgeting and planning process, as well as long-range strategic planning.

• Working closely with the accounting team to ensure a timely and accurate financial close and incorporate necessary inputs to the forward-looking corporate model.

• Aid in company-wide target setting and active management of the company opex and headcount.

• Building partnerships with functional managers to understand drivers, trends, opportunities and to share insights and recommendations.

• Undertake ad hoc projects, financial reporting and analysis.

• Partner with department owners to provide operational analysis and reporting and to drive improvements to operating expense efficiency and forecasting.

• Effectively track budget and communicate budgets to owners and FP&A business partners and recommend possible tradeoffs or saving needed to meet budget envelopes or top-level KPI’s.

• Provide monthly/quarterly budget vs. actual variance analysis at the corporate level and help drive an operating cadence for budget owners and internal stakeholders.

• Apply advanced Google Slides skills to ensure that Finance creates visually impactful slides for executive and Board-level presentations.

• Find, suggest and pursue cost reduction opportunities.

• And any additional tasks required by manager.

Cross-Functional Financial Management:

• This person will sit on the Operating Leadership Team (OLT) of Kong, which is the senior management team within Kong that will help set organization strategic objectives, track progression and identify obsticales and drive towards execution and achievement of those GK-SO’s along with potential re-allocation of resources.

• Decision Making: Build consensus among cross-functional teams and influence decision making with senior leadership audiences.

• Build Relationships: Build productive and positive relationships across the organization at all levels to drive influence.

Strategic Planning:

• Build the framework for the analysis behind company-wide strategic decisions related to responsible functions.

• Ensure Resource Planning and Roadmaps are aligned and operating plan and budget are adhered to.

• Responsible for running quarterly budget vs actual and variance analysis and liaise with budget owners.

• Derive usable models by the business to inform and obtain positive business outcomes

• Work with key stakeholders in creating a tops-down and bottoms up short term and medium term budget that supports the LOB.

• New Opportunities: Explore new market and business model through industry trends, historical trends, competitive assessment, etc. and build/evaluate recommendations for strategic growth and monetization within the R&D.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong analytical skills and demonstrated intellectual curiosity.

• High attention to detail with the ability to keep the big picture in mind.

• Affinity towards leadership and action

• Ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced, high growth environment.

• Results-focused, team-oriented and a strong work ethic.

• 15+ years of Finance and or Business Operations experience with 2+ years of experience in a SAAS business.

• Strong skill set with a corporate financial planning platform (Pigment, Anaplan or Adaptive Planning), as well as upstream workforce planning platforms (Workday)

• Power user status when it comes to Excel.

• Background in corporate finance or investment banking.

• Bachelors in finance, accounting, or quantitative field.

• Good working knowledge of US GAAP required

About Kong:

Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.

Compensation Range: $235K - $275K