Senior Manager, Finance - P&E

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Job description

At Compass, we envision a world where the experience of selling or buying a home is simple and pleasant for everyone. Founded in 2012, Compass provides an end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to their seller and buyer clients, all in service of our mission to help everyone find their place in the world.

As Compass experiences incredible growth, we are looking for the best and brightest to drive strategic business decisions. As a Sr. Finance Manager, your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, will be used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. Working on multiple projects at a time, you will be focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.

To succeed, you will need to develop creative solutions to abstract strategic problems, deliver your work in a clear and compelling format, and balance big picture thinking with exceptional attention to detail. This position requires a driven self-starter who works comfortably with stakeholders across the organization, takes tasks from start to finish, and enjoys working in a fast-paced, challenging environment.

This role will report to the VP Finance for Product and Engineering, and will have a high level of visibility throughout the finance and leadership teams. The person in this role will support the complex financial needs of Compass's Product and Engineering teams. This role provides analytical and direct business support including strategic planning, financial results and KPI analysis, and ad hoc operational support. This role involves coordination across multiple business units and the ideal candidate must be comfortable working cross-functionally in a fast paced environment. Specifically, this role will be instrumental in developing an ROI based valuation methodology and framework to help assess value in development of new features and products in support of our customers (the agents).

At Compass You Will

• Understand Compass business model and drivers of value - and connect the development of Products and Features on the Compass platform to drivers of value.
• Create and update in-depth financial valuation models and analysis to support key business decisions.
• Design datasets to support valuation models so that decisions are grounded in actionable data and can be used to make informed decisions.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders, FP&A, and Corporate Development teams to help identify risks/opportunities and trajectories to plan & forecast.
  

What We're Looking For

• The ability to understand complex business drivers, produce high-quality analytics, and communicate results effectively.
• 8 - 10 years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, corporate strategy, or FP&A.
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills. Must be able to build dynamic and intuitive financial models in both Excel and Google Sheets and eventually design software to manage the models.
• Ability to self-start and work in an unstructured, fast-paced environment; comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
• Positive attitude with a service-oriented, business-partnering approach
• Humble team player who understands the importance of the role as a key support partner to the operating team.
• MBA or equivalent degree in a business or quantitative discipline such as finance, accounting, or economics preferred.
  

Do your best work, be your authentic self.

At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world - a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive. Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.

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