About Gem
Gem’s mission is to help companies hire great teams. Our talent engagement platform enables recruiting teams to build relationships that lead to diverse, high-quality talent pipelines, a great candidate experience, and predictable hiring at any scale. By creating a source of truth for all relationships with talent, Gem can automate personalized outreach, while also generating insights about the entire recruiting process.
Our customers are savvy recruiting teams from industry-leading companies — like Dropbox, Grammarly, Doordash, Cisco, McDonalds — who understand that getting the best talent in the market is key to maintaining their competitive advantage.
With funding from key investors such as, ICONIQ, Greylock, and Accel, Gem has recently been recognized with Unicorn status, with a $1.2B valuation — becoming one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies at its scale. And just as we strive to help our customers find great talent, we also invest in our own people and culture. We are proud of the culture we’ve built and have recently been recognized as:
- Certified as a Great Place to work, 2022
- Y Combinator Top Companies, 2022
- Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area, 2022
The Team & Role
The Strategic Finance team plays a critical role in accelerating Gem’s growth and scale and shaping the trajectory of the business. We drive predictability of financial performance and fuel the decision engine that optimizes investments and resources. We ensure the operating plan aligns with Gem’s top priorities and long-term strategy, and power the insights to enable teams across the company to achieve those goals.
As the first analyst of the Strategic Finance team and a trusted partner to the CFO, you will play an integral role in ensuring Gem makes sound business decisions by driving analyses of results, financial forecasts and scenario modeling. You will collaborate with senior leaders in our Go-to-market and Engineering and Product teams to derive financial plans and operational goals, and deliver actionable insights to help them execute against strategic priorities
The ideal candidate is a self-starter and team player who embraces challenges and proactively takes ownership of business outcomes. You will combine a strategic mindset, deep analytical rigor and excellent business partnering skills to drive smart decision making and cross functional alignment.
This role reports to the Head of Strategic Finance and is based in San Francisco.
What you’ll do day-to-day:
- Partner with go-to-market leaders to drive sales and renewals forecast and establish leading indicators and customers health metrics to enable revenue predictability
- Develop business cases for product monetization, market expansion and growth initiatives in collaboration with product, engineering and sales leaders
- Track and analyze key performance metrics to uncover insights and identify business opportunities and risks
- Support long range and annual planning processes through developing frameworks to translate strategic objectives into financial targets and plans
- Build financial models to analyze returns on investments and optimize resource allocation
- Lead agile scenario modelling to align operational levers to growth and efficiency goals
- Own and evolve free cash flow forecasting process, partnering with Accounting to continuously improve visibility and management of liquidity
- Support capital raising activities with debt and equity investors
- Provide reporting of results and analyses on business drivers to Executives and Board of Directors to support company-level decision making
- Implement tools and streamline processes to scale reporting and forecasting processes
About you:
- 2+ years of experience within Corporate Strategy/FP&A, or at an Investment Banking or Consulting firm
- Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and financial concepts
-
Advance analytical and financial modeling skills; you enjoy getting “in the weeds” if needed
- Exceptional presentation and communication skills to influence leadership decisions
- Excellent business partnering skills and proven ability to drive alignment cross-functionally
- Ability to distill complex issues into structured frameworks and concrete action plans
- Self-starter who’s intellectually agile with an owners mindset to drive business results
- Comfortable with navigating ambiguity in a fast paced and unstructured environment
- Experience with Salesforce and financial systems such as Adaptive, Anaplan or NetSuite a plus
Gem is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate our inclusive work environment and encourage folks of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. At Gem, we’re committed to having an inclusive and transparent environment where every voice is heard and acknowledged. We embrace our differences, and know that our diverse team is a strength that drives our success.
Gem is committed to developing a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodation, please email us at accommodations@gem.com and we’ll work with you to meet your accessibility needs.
For roles based in New York City, NY and San Francisco, CA out of our HQs, the base salary hiring range for this position is $107,500 - $134,500. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
This role is not eligible for remote work.
Gem’s Vaccination Policy
Gem requires all employees to be fully vaccinated* for COVID-19 prior to starting work. Gem is an equal opportunity employer, and will consider requests for exemption from this policy as a reasonable accommodation where it can do so absent undue hardship, consistent with federal, state, and local law.
*Employees are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completing primary vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine, with, if applicable, at least the minimum recommended interval between doses. For example, this includes two weeks after a second does in a two-does series, such as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, two weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, or two weeks after the second dose of any combination of two doses of different COVID-19 vaccines as part of one primary vaccination series.
