Budget & Reporting Specialist

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About Picus

Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing, and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort.

The Picus Security Validation Platform easily reaches across on-prem environments, hybrid clouds and endpoints coupled with Numi AI to provide exposure validation. 

The pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus delivers award-winning threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing, offering a 95% recommendation in Gartner Peer Review.

About The Role

If you’re a results-driven person with an entrepreneurial mindset, who takes the initiative and thrives in a dynamic environment, then this is a great opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-growing cyber security company. We are looking for a smart and driven leader to have a direct impact on the future of our business by helping to influence global adoption of our award-winning Picus Security Validation Platform.

We are looking for a Budget & Reporting Specialist to join Picus’s Finance & Operations department. You will focus on delivering timely and accurate financial insights for the CEO, VP of Finance & Operations and Investors. This will be completed primarily through monthly actual reporting as well as through the annual budgeting process. 

What You'll Do

• Responsible for consolidation, budgeting, reporting, and financial analysis process
• Assists with the preparation of financial management reports across a variety of key metrics including ARR, bookings, and headcount, comparing current actual and year-to-date and last twelve months' performance with prior year results, forecasts, and budgeted results
• Reviews and assists with cash management including the development of monthly and 8-week cash flow forecasts
• Analyzes current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of P&L and Balance sheet
• Monitors performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance
• Conducts expense analysis and monitors the management of expenses in line with the budget
• Oversees and manages the continued development of Budgeting, Financial Forecasting, Operating Plan and Modeling tools
• Build analytical frameworks and forward-looking scenario models to enable quality decision-making and strategic alternative evaluations
• Supports management's decision-making process with ad-hoc reporting and analysis
• Develops and works on various budgeting and forecasting models and templates
• Provides support to external auditors

What You Have

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Economics, Management)
• 5 years experience including, at least 3 years working for one of the big four audit companies and 2 years FP&A or budget & reporting experience
• In-depth understanding of IFRS (IFRS15 knowledge will be highly desirable), consolidation reporting, Turkish tax regulations, management reporting standards and internal control systems
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and modeling skills with the ability to synthesize and analyze data to create actionable strategies
• Proven ability to work well in cross-functional teams and develop strong working relationships across all levels
• Good business sense and strong analytical skills
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail and strong research skills
• Excellent command of MS Office programs
• Having strong communication skills, including excellent written and spoken English
• Having the ability to work for a Global business 
• Ability to flex between high-level strategic thinking and deep-dive analytical problem-solving
• Self-starter with a high sense of ownership, looking to build processes that scale
• Nice to have: a working knowledge of Salesforce, NetSuite/Quickbooks, Abacum
• CPA (SMMM) would be an asset

Working at Picus

Fascinating work - a chance to shape and lead an exciting, fast-growing cyber security segment. Security Validation is a concept that helps organizations evaluate their security posture in a continuous, automated, and repeatable way. This approach allows for the identification of imminent threats, provides recommended actions, and produces valuable metrics about cyber-risk levels.

Unlimited opportunity! We are growing. At Picus, you'll be provided with as much responsibility as you can handle - new career development opportunities constantly arise given our rate of growth.

Global exposure - Get a lot of experience working not only in a fast-growing startup but also interact with customers all around the world.

Be part of a global remote team who is taking on Exposure Validation and a growing market segment.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, national origin, religious belief, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by International law. Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete reference and identity checks in line with local labor laws and as per the Company’s employment policy.