About OpenSesame
- OpenSesame is the trusted partner for Workforce Reinvention in the age of AI. OpenSesame delivers integrated software, curated and customizable content, and expert services – embedded into existing learning, HR, and work systems – to help organizations expand their human+AI potential and thrive through change.
- Learn more: www.opensesame.com/about
About the Team
- With our rapid growth, the Finance team is playing an increasingly critical role in guiding business decisions. For someone looking to develop as a financial leader, this is a chance to accelerate their career in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Pulling it off means you’ll help shape the future of the company’s growth story.
About the Job
- As our business continues to rapidly scale, we need someone who is highly analytical, detail-oriented, and proactive in partnering with leaders across Product, Engineering, Finance, People and Legal. This isn’t just reporting on the numbers—it’s about providing insights that directly impact revenue growth, profitability, and strategic decision-making.
- The ideal candidate thrives in a high-growth environment, solves critical business problems, manages complex financial models, and enjoys collaborating cross-functionally. You’ll partner with business leaders and the finance team to drive forecasting, budgeting, and analytics that accelerate revenue growth, expand margins and improve efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, People and Legal leaders to provide financial analysis, insights, and reporting.
- Lead budgeting and forecasting processes across functional reporting areas with ownership of labor and non-labor.
- Build and maintain financial models to analyze product line profitability, margin levers, ROI and cost optimization opportunities.
- Own process, forecasting and controls for all headcount, contractors and vendors.
- Benchmark and identify spend and productivity efficiencies across departments.
- Align with Accounting and Engineering on software capitalization policy and strategy.
- Analyze historical trends and business drivers to inform strategic recommendations for leadership.
- Prepare and present monthly and quarterly reporting packages to senior leadership.
- Identify and implement process improvements, automation, and enhanced reporting capabilities.
30 Days
- Review and understand key schedules & workflows.
- Complete onboarding to financial systems, forecasting tools, and company financial protocols.
- Learn the functional and departmental reporting structures.
- Gain familiarity with product lines, org structure, and models for labor and non-labor.
60 Days
- Establish strong working relationships with Product, Engineering, Finance, People and Legal leaders.
- Build a comprehensive headcount model that incorporates an integrated requisition process and delivers high visibility into labor costs, hiring timing and attrition by department.
- Refine and templatize product level models, incorporating direct and allocated costs, and key metrics that enhance ability to improve performance.
- Deep dive headcount and vendor economics, identifying key profitability levers.
- Participate in the preparation of monthly and quarterly financial forecasts across COGS, Opex and profitability.
- Recommend and begin implementing at least one process improvement or automation initiative.
- Enhance profit financial modeling by improving accuracy and flexibility in expense forecasts to better support leadership decision-making.
- Present actionable insights on product growth and margin opportunities.
- Begin supporting leader decision making and strategy through tight partnership on budget, investment returns, analyses and key metrics.
