Strategic Finance Manager, Sales Finance

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in San Francisco Bay Area, and they must be able to collaborate in person an average of 3 days per week.

This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 teams. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The Opportunity 

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an experienced Sales finance-focused Strategic Finance Manager to join our Finance team. The person in this role will undertake financial analysis and develop strong partnerships with Grammarly Business leaders to help the company make informed strategic decisions and drive efficient revenue growth for our Managed Enterprise business.

We are seeking highly analytical, detail-oriented, motivated, and dependable candidates who will thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires adaptability.  This role is an individual contributor position reporting to our Grammarly Business Finance Lead. 

As a Strategic Finance Manager, Sales Finance, you will collaborate cross-functionally within finance and partner with sales leaders, revenue operations, product, and marketing to perform financial and strategic analyses to support decision-making and accelerate growth. 

In this role, you will:

• Drive forecasting and annual planning for bookings, operating expenses, headcount, and performance optimization to support the scaling of Grammarly Business, focusing on the managed (sales-serve) channel. 
• Provide analyses and insights into key metrics to serve as thought partners to the sales leaders of Grammarly’s enterprise product in their strategic and operational decision-making. 
• Share valuable insights on operational and financial metrics as part of monthly and quarterly business reviews.
• Provide financial and strategic perspectives on business planning workstreams, including commissions, sales compensation, and pricing/packaging.
• Assist with process and systems improvements to drive the company’s continued growth and scaling.

Qualifications

• Has 5+ years of experience overall, including 1+ years in Strategic Finance or FP&A at a SaaS company and ideally with a sales finance GTM or revenue focus. Earlier career experience could have been in Strategic Finance, FP&A, equity research, private equity, hedge fund, investment banking, or corporate finance.
• Is highly analytical and detail-oriented, with a strong aptitude and enthusiasm for complex problem-solving involving financial modeling and working with large data sets.
• Has proven experience working cross-functionally and is a thoughtful collaborator and great listener, keenly focused on understanding business challenges, building strong relationships, and driving impact.
• Has experience and passion for hyper-growth SaaS and/or enterprise software business models and collaborating with SaaS sales teams.
• Can communicate complex financial concepts with precision and clarity
• Displays a high level of genuine curiosity about our business, exhibits eagerness to learn, and is biased toward action. 
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at Grammarly: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
• Is able to meet in person for their team’s scheduled collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub where their team is based.

Compensation and Benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching 
• Paid parental leave
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and unlimited sick days 
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.

United States: 

Zone 1: $137,000 – $189,000/year (USD)

For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).