Topline & Sales Finance Strategy Manager

About the role Proofpoint’s FP&A | Finance Strategy Topline & Sales team is the central Topline and Sales finance team for the consolidated company. We plan and run the business across every route to market, in a competitive industry that changes fast. In this role, you’ll be the go-to engine of capacity for the Sr. Director of FP&A, Topline & Sales, and a force multiplier for the Topline and Sales FP&A team. The Tier 1 FP&A Team continues to own the forecast and the reporting; this role adds to that team rather than taking from it. You’ll pick up the cross-component, non-traditional work streams that decide how Topline, Sales cost and routes to market fit together, so the whole team gets to faster insights and a more comprehensive scope across the business.

Responsibilities Overlap, integration and non-traditional work streams

• Take on large-scale Planning and run-the-business (RTB) collaboration at the Sr. Director’s direction, driving priority work to an executive-ready answer.
• Partner with the Sr. Director’s direct-report leads and the Topline and Sales FP&A team as added capacity wherever Topline, Sales cost and routes to market need deeper alignment, helping the team move faster and cover more ground while each owner keeps their area.
• Own non-traditional work streams end to end, anchored to big-picture assumptions and backed by a detailed grasp of the core drivers, so assumptions, handoffs and numbers hold together across routes to market and the FP&A team when the business pivots.
• Build scenario models and what-if tools that tie to the system of record, flagging issues rather than burying them.
• Diagnose data and definition issues through system changes and migrations, tracing why a metric moved and landing a defensible fix with the owners.

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