The Strategic Finance Lead at Atlassian will analyze cloud costs, drive financial modeling, and partner with teams on infrastructure investment strategies.
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company. This is a remote position and to ensure successful collaboration for our teams, you will preferably be located in PST timezone.
About the Role
Reporting to the Head of Strategic Product and Engineering finance, Atlassian is seeking a seasoned leader to build and lead the finance team to drive financial strategy and influence decision-making for the Teamwork Collection of products in partnership with executive leadership, ensuring that the portfolio's financial goals and performance align with Atlassian's strategic vision.
This is a business-critical role that works in close partnership with the executive team and their organizations. You will provide critical thought leadership to cross functional executives across Product, Engineering, Finance and Sales. You will also build and lead a team of finance professionals to develop and communicate Atlassian's financial priorities and strategies to drive profitable growth across its portfolio of businesses.
Atlassian is currently on path to transform and scale through $10 billion in revenue and achieve sustained GAAP profitably. This role will be crucial in achieving these important milestones across our Work management business portfolio, as well as our three company-level transformations - Enterprise Cloud, AI & System of Work.
Key Responsibilities
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $164,700 - $215,025
Zone B: $148,500 - $193,875
Zone C: $136,800 - $178,600
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company. This is a remote position and to ensure successful collaboration for our teams, you will preferably be located in PST timezone.
About the Role
Reporting to the Head of Strategic Product and Engineering finance, Atlassian is seeking a seasoned leader to build and lead the finance team to drive financial strategy and influence decision-making for the Teamwork Collection of products in partnership with executive leadership, ensuring that the portfolio's financial goals and performance align with Atlassian's strategic vision.
This is a business-critical role that works in close partnership with the executive team and their organizations. You will provide critical thought leadership to cross functional executives across Product, Engineering, Finance and Sales. You will also build and lead a team of finance professionals to develop and communicate Atlassian's financial priorities and strategies to drive profitable growth across its portfolio of businesses.
Atlassian is currently on path to transform and scale through $10 billion in revenue and achieve sustained GAAP profitably. This role will be crucial in achieving these important milestones across our Work management business portfolio, as well as our three company-level transformations - Enterprise Cloud, AI & System of Work.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive financial strategy and influence decision-making and business performance in close partnership with executive leadership, other senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Finance, Sales functions.
- Communicate financial strategy, priorities, and rationale broadly across the Teamwork Collection of products and bring it to life through integrated end-to-end financial planning and decision making.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to evaluate financial performance and related strategic initiatives and investments to drive long term topline and bottomline improvement across Teamwork Collection of products.
- Monitor market trends and developments for benchmarks and insights used to guide business planning.
- Play a leadership role in shaping the long-term strategy for Teamwork Collection of products and then work with leaders to implement and build and scale the business.
- Model, Coach and Care for diverse, inclusive individuals in a high performance team.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in finance roles, with at least 5 years in leadership positions overseeing strategic finance roles that partner closely with R&D and sales and marketing leaders.
- Demonstrated history driving company financial performance and strategic decision-making at global scale.
- Excellent communication and analytical skills and the ability to simplify complexity in fast-paced dynamic environments.
- Experience providing thought leadership and compelling recommendations to executive leadership teams that drive better business results.
- Strategic operational skills, the ability to maintain a focus on the broader picture, while seamlessly transitioning into the details on execution.
- Proven leadership abilities, with a track record of attracting great talent and building and developing high-performing distributed teams.
- Bachelor's degree in quantitative financial field (Finance, Accounting, Economics), MBA is a plus
- Prior experience in the technology industry required, Cloud/SaaS is a strong plus
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $164,700 - $215,025
Zone B: $148,500 - $193,875
Zone C: $136,800 - $178,600
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
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