Strategic Financial Analyst

Strategic Finance Analyst

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Alarm.com (ALRM) a highly innovative, diversified, and entrepreneurial SaaS (Software as a Service) company driving innovation in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. We’ve experienced steady, healthy growth over the past several years and established a high-performing and wide-ranging FP&A team along the way. We are seeking an Analyst for our Strategic Finance team to help optimize our business strategies and inform our financial analysis as we continue to scale. In this role, you will be responsible for providing analytical support and project management to teams throughout the organization. You should thrive in a cross-functional environment and value building relationships with partners both internally and externally.  In order to be successful in this role, you should possess a combination of strong quantitative abilities, business acumen, project management, and communication skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your responsibilities in this position will vary day-to-day, so you should work best in a dynamic environment. Your key areas of contribution will include:

• Financial strategy – assist in the development of unit economic and go-to-market strategy for our growing suite of solutions in a variety of product categories and channels, facilitating discussions with other members of the Alarm.com pricing committee and other internal groups to implement and monitor these strategies.
• Deal design –engage with internal parties to design contract terms and structures for customer relationships; learning to define and deploy negotiation strategies internally and externally as well as to monitor the effect on business outcomes stemming from the designs.
• Project management – leverage business and industry knowledge to lead internal initiatives from ideation to launch, managing responsibilities in multiple areas of the project to ensure successful execution in pursuit of business objectives.
• Stakeholder management – proactively communicate with product management, supply chain and sales throughout the project lifecycles to ensure that all groups are aligned and exchanging information seamlessly.
• Addressable market analysis - evaluate addressable market opportunities to help inform resource allocation planning, incorporating data from multiple sources to quantify current and future market / category growth along with Alarm.com’s competitive positioning in the market.
• Unit economic analysis – build robust and dynamic models to evaluate business impact across different scenarios, including pricing changes, demand growth, COGS changes, etc.
• Post-implementation analysis – collaborate across teams to assess the impact of pricing, contract, and business model changes, surfacing insights that inform future strategy and decision-making.
• Comparative analysis – conduct competitive analysis and pricing research, surveys, and in-market testing to understand elasticity and inform recommendations.
• Collaboration – work cross-functionally with sales, finance, operations, legal, business intelligence, marketing, product, and others.
• AI First Mindset – approach everything through a dual lens that includes a critical assessment of how you can make a process work more efficiently through automation and/or adoption of emerging technologies.
• Other duties as assigned. 

YOU WILL LIKELY BE A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE IF:

• You have excellent leadership skills and thrive in matrixed organizations.
• You are a team player, have strong analytical acumen and attention to detail.
• You have experience with subscription-based business models.
• You have 2-4 years of relevant professional experience which includes strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, FP&A, or a similar data-centric role.
• You are detail-orientated with the ability to develop, and execute identified objectives.
• You’re a self-starter and a proven team player in an achievement-oriented environment.
• You value being both a mentor and mentee and strive to be a reliable partner in the business.
• You have the proven ability to develop creative/non-traditional solutions with strategic thinking.
• You are an effective communicator comfortable presenting complex information to audiences with varying levels of financial acumen, including executives.
• You have an undergraduate degree – preferably with advanced course work in Accounting, Finance, Strategy, Mathematics, and/or Economics.
• You have working knowledge of accounting and financial concepts.
• You have advanced Microsoft Excel skills (V or X lookup, index/match functions, pivot tables, sumifs, etc.).
• You are willing to put personal ambition aside to achieve optimal outcomes through collective endeavors – allowing the best ideas to win while contributing to the pursuit of value creation, regardless of personal attribution and commendation.

Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.

WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM?

• Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers.
• Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team!
• Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business.
• Focus on fun: Alarm.com places high value on our team culture. We even have a committee dedicated to hosting a stand-out holiday party, happy hours, and other fun corporate events.
• Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person.  Our employees work from the office 4 days a week.

COMPANY INFO

Alarm.com is the leading cloud-based platform for smart security and the Internet of Things. More than 7.6 million home and business owners depend on our solutions every day to make their properties safer, smarter, and more efficient. And every day, we’re innovating new technologies in rapidly evolving spaces including AI, video analytics, facial recognition, machine learning, energy analytics, and more.  We’re seeking those who are passionate about creating change through technology and who want to make a lasting impact on the world around them. 

For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.

COMPANY BENEFITS

Alarm.com offers competitive pay and benefits inclusive of subsidized medical plan options, an HSA with generous company contribution, a 401(k) with employer match, and paid holidays, wellness time, and vacation increasing with tenure. Paid maternity and bonding leave, company-paid disability and life insurance, FSAs, well-being resources and activities, and a casual dress work environment are also part of our outstanding total rewards package!

Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer

In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you (“Personal Information”). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision.

Notice To Third Party Agencies:
Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services.  However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com.