Senior Manager, Strategic Finance (Special Projects)

Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy, and they are seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance (Special Projects) to join their Strategic Finance team. This role involves supporting forecasting processes, operational finance projects, and strategic analysis to drive business performance and decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Support the intra-quarter revenue forecast process including daily forecast updates, weekly updates, and quarterly forecast cycles
• Support forecasting materials for Board and sponsor reporting
• Contribute to the Annual Operating Plan and long-term forecasting process, incorporating product, commercial, and market assumptions
• Support the quarterly target-setting process in partnership with cross-functional teams and drive intra-quarter holistic and initiative-specific tracking against forecast
• Partner with GTM & Operations teams on projects that help the business better understand and track revenue performance across different business segments
• Lead Finance-side work to evaluate and improve long-standing operational processes, identifying where existing definitions, reporting frameworks, or tracking methodologies may benefit from reassessment
• Drive projects that improve the quality and consistency of reporting across the organization, ensuring leadership has accurate and reliable data to support decision-making
• Develop new analytical views and reporting capabilities for senior leadership forums, surfacing discussion topics backed by rigorous financial logic
• Own business case support and ad hoc product forecasting, from framing the right question to delivering a structured, assumption-driven analysis
• Support revenue synergy and M&A workstreams
• Take on high-priority, time-sensitive analytical projects as they arise across the Strategic Finance team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
• 7-10+ years of FP&A, strategic finance, or related analytical experience, ideally in a high-growth technology or ad tech environment
• Demonstrated ability to support complex forecasting processes and own special projects independently, with strong assumptions ownership and stakeholder alignment
• Strong financial modeling skills across forecasting, scenario analysis, and business case development
• Intellectually curious and comfortable with ambiguity, with the ability to ramp quickly on new topics and work through open-ended problems
• Clear, concise communicator who can translate complex analysis into executive-ready insights
• Proven track record of proactive ownership and driving to answers independently
• Experience partnering with go-to-market, product, and senior leadership teams
• Ad tech, programmatic advertising, or mobile experience