Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Revenue Finance and Strategy roles sit at the center of how SaaS businesses translate product adoption into durable, forecastable revenue. This position is notable because it focuses specifically on revenue and gross margin planning, bringing together historical trend analysis, macro signals, and AI-driven forecasting to inform leadership decisions. The remit also spans multiple products and customer segments, a common complexity in maturing SaaS revenue engines.
For a SaaS finance career, the work builds durable skills in subscription and usage economics, KPI design, and the operating cadence that links product, data, and go-to-market teams. Ownership of short and long-range forecasts, board-level reporting, and performance diagnostics develops a strong toolkit for navigating ambiguity while keeping stakeholders aligned on measurable drivers. Experience improving planning processes toward public company readiness is also a transferable credential across later-stage SaaS environments.
This role tends to suit finance professionals who prefer high-ownership analytical work and frequent cross-functional partnership rather than purely transactional finance. It fits someone comfortable synthesizing complex inputs into clear narratives for senior audiences, and who enjoys refining models and processes as business needs evolve. A background that blends quantitative rigor with commercial curiosity aligns well with the day-to-day expectations.
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Job Description
About the role
We are looking for a highly analytical finance professional to join our FP&S team as Senior Manager, Revenue Financial Planning & Strategy. This role will be responsible for enabling the achievement of Checkr's revenue and gross margin goals by driving revenue financial planning, forecasting, and reporting. A critical part of any business is grasping its key revenue drivers. You'll do this by deeply analyzing historical trends, evaluating macro impacts, and leveraging AI forecast models while working side by side with our product, data, and GTM teams. The ideal candidate brings a highly quantitative, data-driven mindset and has experienced success in a dynamic, high-growth, and fast-paced environment. This candidate should also possess outstanding communication and interpersonal skills across all levels of senior management (including VP, SVP, and C-suite).
What you'll do
- Build strong relationships to partner cross-functionally across product, data, and GTM teams to own the short-term and long-range revenue forecast across all products and customer segments
- Define and measure the KPIs and incorporate those, along with other internal and external data sources, to constantly refine the accuracy of the forecasts
- Develop and own critical revenue reporting and analytics, ensuring key issues, risks, and business drivers are understood and highlighted to management and the Board
- Conduct in-depth analyses to enable data-driven decisions that optimize business performance toward Checkr's long-term goals
- Identify areas of strategic growth and operational efficiency across the business and drive workstreams to execute on those initiatives
- Help build scalable and consistent revenue planning processes toward public company readiness, enabling operational excellence in business planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting
What you bring
- Minimum of 7+ years in finance and/or data analytics; AI tooling proficiency strongly preferred
- An expert in financial modeling and quantitative analysis, who enjoys solving complex and unstructured problems
- Deep experience working in high-growth environments, preferably in transaction-based models
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with the proven ability to synthesize complex financial information in ways others can easily understand
- A demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across different functions and effectively influence senior business partners
- Demonstrates the Checkr core values of Grit, Humility, Transparency, Connection and Ownership
- Prior experience in a combination of investment banking, management consulting, or private equity strongly preferred
- An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.
