Strategic Finance & Business Strategy Manager

In this senior FP&A role, you will shape how Proofpoint interprets growth opportunities and links product, BU plans to corporate targets. You'll build a repeatable, defensible growth-planning capability and partner with product and business leaders to own product-level and BU growth forecasts. Your work informs strategic choices, acquisition integration, and capital allocation at the highest level. You will also translate complex analytics into executive-ready planning materials that drive decisions and action.

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits
• Flexible work environment
• Wellbeing days
• Volunteer days
• Work from Anywhere option

• Partner with Product Management and BU leaders to develop product-level growth plans grounded in opportunity, strategy, and commercial reality.
• Facilitate working sessions to articulate growth theses and translate them into driver-based models.
• Own and enhance the integrated product-level growth model for annual and long-range planning (ARR, NARR, renewal, retention, expansion).
• Reconcile bottom-up product plans to BU outlooks and corporate targets; surface gaps and required actions.
• Support integration of acquired businesses into the growth planning framework, aligning assumptions and reporting periods.
• Evaluate financial implications of packaging, monetization, and GTM options; support market sizing and portfolio analyses.
• Prepare executive-ready planning materials and surface unresolved assumptions with alternatives.

• 8+ years in strategic finance, product finance, FP&A, or strategy and operations
• Advanced financial modeling: driver-based forecasts, integrated business models, scenario analysis
• Deep understanding of SaaS and recurring-revenue economics (ARR, NARR, retention, churn, expansion, renewal)
• Proven success partnering with product or commercial leaders to build plans they own and defend
• Structured problem solving to convert ambiguous questions into quantitative frameworks
• Strong facilitation and communication skills; able to explain assumptions to executives
• Experience delivering complex analyses across cross-functional workstreams

• facilitation
• clear communication
• cross-functional collaboration
• driver-based forecasting
• integrated business models
• ARR/NARR modeling