Strategic Finance & Business Strategy Manager

The Role Proofpoint is scaling through both organic growth and acquisition, with a transformative acquisition signed. Leadership needs product-level growth plans that are credible, evidence-based, and reconciled to corporate targets, so that planning reviews are about tradeoffs and strategic choices rather than assembling plans in the room. In this role, you will work directly with product and business leaders to shape how the company understands where its growth comes from, build a repeatable growth-planning capability that exists informally today, and see your analysis inform portfolio and planning decisions at the highest level.

You will be the strategic finance partner to Proofpoint’s business unit and product leaders, shaping how each business thinks about where its growth comes from and building the models that make that thinking defensible. You will own the development and analytical integration of product-level and Business Unit growth plans and the integrated growth model that connects them; the product and business leaders own the underlying strategies and growth commitments, and you make them explicit and testable. Core FP&A owns the P&L, the corporate plan, and the targets; you reconcile bottom-up plans to those targets, make gaps and the actions behind them explicit, and your analysis informs how targets are allocated across Business Units. You will partner closely with Topline & Sales FP&A, which owns the consolidated forecast. You will work alongside analytics and data engineering teams in the same organization, which provide the historical performance insight and governed data your models build on.

This is a senior individual contributor role at the manager level within the FP&A organization, reporting to a Senior Director.

Location: This is a hybrid role based in our Sunnyvale, CA HQ, 4 days a week.

Your Responsibilities Business Strategy & Partnership

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