At ExtraHop, we’re on a mission to protect and empower the connected enterprise. We reveal what is happening in the very infrastructure that sustains businesses, lives, and communities, and ensure the integrity of networks, data, systems, and processes. Organizations rely on ExtraHop to provide visibility into the cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and network performance issues that evade their existing security and IT tools. With this insight, organizations can investigate smarter, stop threats faster, and keep operations running.
Our mission is fueled by a profound social and moral responsibility to be the best at what we do, ensuring a secure world where everyone can thrive. If this sounds like a place you’d like to spend the next chapter of your career, we’d love to hear from you.
Position Summary
The Strategic Finance Manager is a senior finance leader responsible for driving advanced financial analysis, strategic planning, and decision support across the business. This role partners closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams—including Sales, Sales Operations, Go-To-Market, Product, and Customer Success—to deliver actionable insights that inform strategy, optimize performance, and support scalable growth.
This role requires strong analytical rigor, business acumen, and the ability to translate complex data into clear narratives for senior leadership. The ideal candidate brings deep SaaS and GTM finance expertise, excels at financial modeling and storytelling, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead development, refinement, and ownership of core SaaS metrics and KPIs, ensuring relevance, accuracy, and alignment with industry benchmarks
- Support and analyze key SaaS financial metrics, including ARR, bookings, revenue, margins, renewals, customer lifetime value, and expense drivers
- Build and maintain sophisticated financial models using Excel, Google Sheets, Tableau, and other tools, with a focus on automation and scalability
- Partner with senior leaders to provide strategic insights, recommendations, and decision support through deep financial and operational analysis
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to GTM leadership, supporting long- and short-term planning across bookings, revenue, pipeline, and operating expenses by product, geography, and business segment
- Work closely with the CRO and Sales Operations on sales capacity planning, quota setting, compensation design, and commission analysis
- Prepare staffing and productivity analyses and deliver data-driven recommendations to executive leadership
- Identify financial risks and opportunities that impact enterprise performance and support proactive decision-making
- Lead the design and delivery of executive-ready reporting, dashboards, and visual storytelling for monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc reviews
- Support consolidation of budgets and forecasts in partnership with FP&A team members, continuously improving models and reporting accuracy
- Drive reporting, forecasting, and process improvements, including metric alignment, data integrity, and automation across systems
- Prepare materials for Monthly Reporting Packages, Quarterly Business Reviews, and executive and Board-level presentations
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A or strategic finance; experience in PE-backed or public company environments is a plus
- 5+ years of experience in technology or SaaS finance
- Deep expertise in SaaS GTM finance, including revenue models, sales productivity, and pipeline dynamics
- Expert-level financial modeling skills
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial planning/budgeting tools
- Salesforce experience required
- Strong ability to influence, partner with, and communicate effectively to senior leaders
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA, CPA, CFA, or similar professional certification
- Experience with Tableau, NetSuite, or similar analytics and ERP platforms
Skills and Competencies
- Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional communication and storytelling abilities, particularly with financial data
- Strong leadership skills with experience developing and mentoring finance talent
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Collaborative mindset with a strong focus on business partnership and impact
- Work cooperatively with others within the organization and other cross-functional stakeholders.
- Work well in fast-paced, high-stress environments.
- Has predictable, reliable attendance.
The salary range for this role is $135,000 -$149,000 + bonus + benefits
ABOUT EXTRAHOP
ExtraHop is reinventing Network Detection and Response (NDR) to offer enterprises unparalleled visibility, context, and control against emerging threats. The platform integrates NDR with Network Performance Management (NPM), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and forensics, providing a single, comprehensive solution. By decrypting and analyzing complete packet-level data at wire speed and leveraging cloud-scale machine learning, ExtraHop empowers Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to detect, investigate, and remediate modern cyber risks in real time across their entire hybrid infrastructure, including data center, cloud, and SASE environments.
This comprehensive approach and market innovation have earned ExtraHop unique recognition as the only NDR vendor acknowledged as a leader by all major analyst firms, including the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response™, the 2025 Forrester® Wave for Network Analysis and Visibility, the 2024 IDC® Marketscape for NDR, and the 2025 Gigamon® Radar Report for Network Detection and Response. Since 2007, ExtraHop has consistently helped organizations worldwide extract in-depth network telemetry and contextual insights, affirming its commitment to protecting and empowering the connected enterprise.
OUR VALUES
Our culture is rooted in our five Values. These set the expectations for how we work individually and collectively as a team.
Lead with Purpose: We are driven to deliver results that create a positive impact for our customers, partners, and colleagues.
Act with Integrity: We operate with transparency, authenticity, and always in the best interest of the company.
Find a Way: We are resourceful, tackle hard problems with a sense of urgency and ownership, and do what it takes to get the job done.
Innovate: We listen to customers, partners, and the market, and respectfully push boundaries and challenge the status quo.
Share Success: We run together, we win together. We value diverse perspectives, hold space for all voices, and achieve the best results as a team.
BENEFITS
Employees' wellbeing is top of mind for the ExtraHop team. Employees and their families will have the option to participate in the following benefits:
- Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits
- Flexible PTO, Sick Time Prorated Based on Date of Hire, and All Federal Holidays (US Only) + 3 Days of Paid Volunteer Time
- Non-Commissioned Positions may be eligible to participate in the Annual Discretionary Bonus Plan
- FSA and Dependent Care Accounts + EAP, where applicable
- Educational Reimbursement
- 401k with Employer Match or Pension where applicable
- Pet Insurance (US Only)
- Parental Leave (US Only)
- Hybrid and Remote Work Model
Our people are our most important competitive advantage, leading the charge against cyber criminals. Join the fight today!
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