Corporate Finance Manager

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 400,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy. 

About the Role:

Do you want to help guide financial planning, business operations, and strategic decision making at a Forbes Cloud 100 company? Come join the Finance, BizOps & Strategy (FBOS) team at Gusto.

The FBOS team provides financial, operational, and strategic support at the corporate, departmental, and product level. The team’s mission is to define and defend the business model while accelerating Gusto’s growth.

As part of the Corporate Finance sub team, you will drive company-wide financial planning, resource allocation, operations, and provide key reporting insights to enable company level decision making. You'll gain experience partnering cross-functionally, improving capital allocation efficiency through the financial planning and headcount management lifecycle, and leverage the newest tools to automate and scale internal reporting. You’ll have a small team that you’ll be responsible for leading and managing as well.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Corporate Planning & Forecasting.  Partner on managing Gusto’s business model and support strategic planning, forecasting and resource allocation.  
• Management Reporting.  Support key corporate reporting requirements to Board of Directors and Executive Team, e.g. company level KPI tracking, performance to plan, etc...
• Business Support. Support key foundation leaders as a business partner & other finance team members
• Drive Efficiency and Scale. Help continuously standardize and improve reporting frameworks, systems, processes and data governance to create leverage for the FBOS team and help Gusto scale.
• Headcount Planning & Management.  Partner with Gusto’s recruiting team, finance teammates, and cross-functional partners to plan for & operationalize hiring.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• Experience
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in Finance & Strategy or Financial Operations within tech, fintech, and/or banking
• Technical skills. 
• Excel pro with the superpower to develop insightful financial models and quantitative analysis, paired with strong critical thinking and sound business judgment.
• Comfortable building new processes & reports in an enterprise financial planning system (Pigment). 
• Familiar with human capital management, financial planning, and other data visualization & analytics tools (e.g. Workday, Tableau, Redash) 
• Experience using SQL
• Comfortable with advanced AI prompting & vibe coding
• Discipline & Attitude.
• Outgoing & thoughtful partner to leaders throughout the organization
• Sharp attention to detail with a natural feel for numbers and data, and have a high degree of accuracy in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• Impressive time management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks with multiple stakeholders while hitting deadlines on time sensitive projects.
• Prepared to troubleshoot and diagnose issues to their root cause & recommend solutions

Our cash compensation amount for this role is between $109,000 - $155,000/year in Denver and $132,000 - $187,000/year for New York/San Francisco. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above. Compensation for this position also includes an equity package and performance bonuses.

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. 

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto. 

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.

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