Finance & Strategy Senior Manager - GTM
The team:
The Finance & Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Apollo’s core functional leaders. Our team partners closely with business leaders to drive understanding and consistency to Apollo’s financial results, and work cross-functionally to help improve strategic, financial, and operational decision-making at Apollo during a period of hyper-growth.
What you’ll do:
We are looking for a Finance & Strategy Senior Manager, reporting to the Finance & Strategy Director, who will focus on go-to-market initiatives to support our growing business. You will play a central role in shaping and executing on our planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes, and also be a primary business partner to our GTM teams. You will use your business insight, analytical skills, and strategic thinking to deliver insights and actionable recommendations to improve decision-making across the marketing, growth, sales, success, and customer support teams. The ideal candidate is highly self-motivated, analytical, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is passionate about making an impact.
Responsibilities:
Partner with our Sales, Marketing, Success, and Support organizations to drive growth and optimize performance of our GTM investments
Develop frameworks to support investments; own financial performance and develop reporting to drive deeper understanding of the efficiency of our go-to-market channels (eg. ROAS, LTV:CAC, CAC Payback).
Build and maintain detailed financial models to optimize sales capacity planning, productivity, and compensation structures
Translate business activities and key performance inputs into financial outputs that allow us to reason about return on investment of specific marketing channel tactics, trade off ROI of the next marginal dollar spent, and help optimize performance at a portfolio level.
Conduct deep dives into business trends and drivers of variance. Independently lead data extraction, cohort analysis, visualization, and presentations highlighting GTM performance, trends, and key opportunities
Support pricing and packaging workstreams including promotions and impact analysis of price changes as needed
Qualifications:
8+ years of experience in a finance-focused role within GTM functions at a SaaS or high-growth technology company. Experience in equity research, private equity, hedge funds, or investment banking is a plus.
Track record of partnering cross-functionally with GTM leaders and teams, with a focus on understanding business challenges and driving impact.
Experience with planning and budgeting processes, revenue forecasting, operating expense forecasting, P&L management, interpreting and reporting business performance results
Highly analytical and detail-oriented, with a strong aptitude for financial modeling, data analysis, and solving complex problems.
Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly and effectively to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
Proficient in using SQL to obtain data to support decision-making; experience with tools such as Looker and Snowflake is a plus.
Experience and comfortable working in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment with a bias towards action
Finance & Strategy Senior Manager - GTM
The team:
The Finance & Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Apollo’s core functional leaders. Our team partners closely with business leaders to drive understanding and consistency to Apollo’s financial results, and work cross-functionally to help improve strategic, financial, and operational decision-making at Apollo during a period of hyper-growth.
What you’ll do:
We are looking for a Finance & Strategy Senior Manager, reporting to the Finance & Strategy Director, who will focus on go-to-market initiatives to support our growing business. You will play a central role in shaping and executing on our planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes, and also be a primary business partner to our GTM teams. You will use your business insight, analytical skills, and strategic thinking to deliver insights and actionable recommendations to improve decision-making across the marketing, growth, sales, success, and customer support teams. The ideal candidate is highly self-motivated, analytical, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is passionate about making an impact.
Responsibilities:
Partner with our Sales, Marketing, Success, and Support organizations to drive growth and optimize performance of our GTM investments
Develop frameworks to support investments; own financial performance and develop reporting to drive deeper understanding of the efficiency of our go-to-market channels (eg. ROAS, LTV:CAC, CAC Payback).
Build and maintain detailed financial models to optimize sales capacity planning, productivity, and compensation structures
Translate business activities and key performance inputs into financial outputs that allow us to reason about return on investment of specific marketing channel tactics, trade off ROI of the next marginal dollar spent, and help optimize performance at a portfolio level.
Conduct deep dives into business trends and drivers of variance. Independently lead data extraction, cohort analysis, visualization, and presentations highlighting GTM performance, trends, and key opportunities
Support pricing and packaging workstreams including promotions and impact analysis of price changes as needed
Qualifications:
8+ years of experience in a finance-focused role within GTM functions at a SaaS or high-growth technology company. Experience in equity research, private equity, hedge funds, or investment banking is a plus.
Track record of partnering cross-functionally with GTM leaders and teams, with a focus on understanding business challenges and driving impact.
Experience with planning and budgeting processes, revenue forecasting, operating expense forecasting, P&L management, interpreting and reporting business performance results
Highly analytical and detail-oriented, with a strong aptitude for financial modeling, data analysis, and solving complex problems.
Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly and effectively to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
Proficient in using SQL to obtain data to support decision-making; experience with tools such as Looker and Snowflake is a plus.
Experience and comfortable working in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment with a bias towards action