Description
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Viant’s Strategic Finance team is seeking a Director, Strategic Finance, reporting to the VP, Strategic Finance, to help lead forward-looking financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, strategic analysis, and decision support across the business. This leader will oversee Viant's consolidated 3-statement operating model and partner closely with senior leadership on the financial view of the company, supporting scenario planning, quarterly earnings guidance, Board materials, strategic initiatives, business analysis, and M&A.
This is a high-impact, highly analytical, and hands-on leadership role within a fast-paced public-company environment. The Director will manage and develop a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance, while also remaining hands-on in building analyses, pressure-testing assumptions, and ensuring Viant’s forecasts, models, and executive materials are accurate, insightful, and decision-ready.
THE DAY-TO-DAY
- Lead Viant’s forward-looking financial analysis, including annual budgeting, monthly and quarterly forecasting, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and ad hoc analyses for senior leadership and stakeholders across the company
- Oversee Viant's consolidated 3-statement operating model, ensuring projections, actualized results, and key assumptions are accurate and clearly understood by Finance leadership
- Manage and develop the Senior Manager, Strategic Finance, including guiding and reviewing model updates, forecast analyses, Board support, and ad hoc financial models
- Partner with Corporate Finance and Investor Relations on the quarterly earnings process by providing forecast perspectives, guidance support, and financial analysis that helps explain business performance and key drivers
- Support preparation of Board and Audit Committee materials by developing financial projections, validating key assumptions, and helping convert complex analyses into concise executive-level narratives
- Provide business analysis, pro forma modeling, and integration planning for M&A and strategic investments in partnership with Corporate Development, Corporate Finance, and other functional leaders
- Build and improve Strategic Finance analyses and planning workflows, with a focus on forecast integrity, budget discipline, clear documentation, reviewability, and efficiency
GREAT TO HAVE
- 10+ years of relevant experience in strategic finance, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, or a high-growth public company; AdTech, SaaS, digital media, or technology experience a plus
- Experience leading or materially owning complex 3-statement financial models, long-range plans, annual budgets, and executive-level forecasting processes
- Prior people management experience, with the ability to set direction, review detailed analytical work, develop talent, and hold the team accountable to high-quality outputs and deadlines
- Strong understanding of accounting concepts and how income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, revenue, capitalization, and cost classification decisions affect forecasts and business analysis
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills required; strong PowerPoint and executive communication skills expected
- Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and executive communication skills, with the ability to identify key business drivers and translate complex analysis into clear narratives for senior leadership, Board, investor, and cross-functional audiences
- BS/BA in Finance, Economics, or a related field; MBA and/or CFA a plus
LIFE AT VIANT
Investing in our employee’s professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being. That’s why Viant was voted one of the best places to work and some of our favorite employee benefits include fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO and more.
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Viant Technology (NASDAQ: DSP) is an exclusively buy-side, AI-powered advertising platform purpose-built for CTV. Viant uniquely combines proprietary content intelligence, household-level identity resolution, and person-level attention signals to connect advertisers with real customers and drive measurable outcomes across the open internet. Through its award-winning AI solutions, Viant is building the future of autonomous advertising, where AI doesn't just assist the campaign, it delivers real results. Learn more at viantinc.com.
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