At Aeris, we are at the forefront of the IoT revolution, connecting more than 70 million cellular IoT devices globally in our IoT Platform Services via our telecom operator partners and enterprise customers, providing cutting-edge SaaS solutions that enable businesses to harness the power of connected devices. Our largest industry segments are Automotive, Utilities and Transport & Logistics, using eSIM technologies. Headquartered in Chicago with offices around the world, Aeris is the preeminent IoT software company globally powering critical projects across energy, connected vehicles, transportation, retail, healthcare and more.

Our new Senior Analyst of Corporate Finance will report to the company’s VP of Finance and will support a wide range of cross-functional business analyses while working with key stakeholders across the organization. Our business and the markets in which we operate continue to evolve and become more dynamic. This raises the bar for critical thinking, business judgment, and data-driven decision making, and this new role will be a foundational element of advancing our agenda in these areas.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Analyst of Corporate Finance is expected to support a small team of professionals, and is also expected to roll up their sleeves to be a hands-on contributor and thought-leader within the Finance department. That leadership will be directed at a few key areas:

• Financial Planning & Analysis:

• Develop, implement, and manage the company's financial strategies and policies to ensure long-term financial stability and growth in the SaaS sector

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze financial data, providing critical decision support to business stakeholders

• Conduct in-depth financial analysis to identify areas of improvement, cost optimization, revenue growth, and the lifetime value of customers

• Support go-to-market initiatives through the evaluation and prioritization of market opportunities

• Develop and manage a continuous planning cycle for company revenues and corresponding operating expenses to support a nimble decision-making process •

• Sales Operations:

• Manage and maintain monthly forecasting of revenues in direct collaboration with the Sales organization and senior management

• Provide clear visibility to the sales pipeline and to the key metrics by which the pipeline should be evaluated and managed

• Evaluate and monitor the financial performance of products and subscription models

• Support sales execution through margin and pricing analysis

• Collaborate with Business Unit leads and executive leadership to manage a transparent, effective system for variable compensation across the organization •

• Procurement and Supply Chain Management:

• Perform intelligence gathering in support of a prioritized procurement agenda for cost optimization

• Analyze supply chain logistics for hardware-related elements of the product offering

• Support the Finance organization in the creation of an integrated procurement structure in collaboration with finance and procurement personnel from foreign subsidiary operations

Qualifications:

• Excellent critical thinking skills, well-placed judgment, and tact are essential

• 3-5 years within a top-tier corporate FP&A function with experience developing financial models supporting operational decision making

• Strong educational background in Finance, Business, Data Visualization, and/or Economics from a top undergraduate university; MBA a plus but not required

• Experience building-up financial reports from scratch, preferably in a startup environment 

• Expertise in strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, and reporting, as well as a strong appreciation for procedure, process, and operational excellence

• Expert-level proficiency within Excel, up-to/including VBA and/or macro creation; proficiency with other BI modeling tools (e.g., Qlikview, PowerBI, Python, R) highly valued

• Demonstrated aptitude within technology disciplines required • Practical work experience in the technology industry preferred, ideally in a SaaS-based company

• Excellent written and oral communication skills required

• Strong organizational and project management skills to effectively handle multiple projects simultaneously

Aeris walks the walk on diversity. We are a brilliant mix of varying ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages and professional/personal/military experiences – and that’s by design. Different perspectives are essential to our culture, innovative process and competitive edge. Aeris is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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