Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis - Remote

This is not your typical FP&A role. At Mitek, our FP&A team shapes how we allocate capital, evaluate investments, and drive company performance — as operators with a direct line to executive decisions.

You’ll join in a hybrid manager / individual contributor capacity — a true player-coach. The role requires hands-on ownership of forecasts, models, and analysis, while also setting the rhythm for planning, reporting, and executive deliverables. You’ll mentor analysts, collaborate cross-functionally, and elevate the quality of outputs that inform leadership and Board-level decisions.

The role is highly entrepreneurial, with the chance to shine through direct exposure to executive management. Success here requires not only strong FP&A fundamentals, but also the willingness to build new processes and automate existing ones — streamlining workflows and ensuring timely, accurate reporting that helps leadership steer the business.

This is the right role for someone who still thrives in the details but also wants to start zooming out — mentoring others, improving processes, and connecting the trees to the forest.

We need someone technical, detail-oriented and ready to evaluate and accelerate the financial engine behind how we operate. If you think like an investor, act like an owner, and want your work to directly influence the company’s next move – this is your seat at the table.

Mitek Systems (NASDAQ: MITK) is a global leader in digital identity verification and mobile deposit technology, helping businesses reduce fraud and meet regulatory requirements while delivering fast, secure digital transactions. Their AI-powered platform enables banks, fintechs, and enterprises to verify identities, authenticate documents, and streamline mobile check deposits with ease.

What You’ll Do (Essential Responsibilities)

• Own processes across revenue, OpEx, and headcount.
• Build and maintain driver-based forecasting models tied to business drivers.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, and reporting in Adaptive (Workday) with accuracy and timeliness.
• Develop Tableau dashboards that give leaders real-time, self-service visibility into performance and KPIs.
• Deliver monthly, quarterly, and executive reporting packages that are accurate, visual, and decision-useful - up to and including Board-level materials.
• Partner with business leaders in R&D, sales, marketing, and other departments to identify trends, flag risks, and recommend actions that drive revenue and margin.
• Contribute to long-range planning, scenario modeling, and forecast updates.
• Support go-to-market strategies with financial insights on pricing, payback, customer health, and ROI.
• Apply a finance lens to resource allocation, efficiency, trade-offs, and growth strategy.
• Mentor and guide analysts - reviewing models, strengthening analysis, and raising the quality bar.
• Lead the monthly forecasting cadence and enforce planning timelines, coordinating inputs across the business to deliver consistent, consolidated outputs.

What You Need (Key Requirements)

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or related field.
• Knowledge and experience typical of someone with 7+ years in FP&A or strategic finance, including exposure to managing processes or mentoring analysts.
• Direct FP&A experience at a public SaaS/software company - you understand the metrics, operating cadence, and expectations of a listed technology business.
• Ability and willingness to work east coast US hours.
• Thrive working independently and remotely - highly task-oriented, self-motivated, and outcome-driven.
• Strong financial modeling skills - built and owned driver-based, 3-statement models that guide real decisions.
• Experience with core FP&A workflows: budgets, forecasts, headcount models, variance analysis, and compensation/OpEx modeling.
• Expertise with SaaS metrics (ARR, CAC, payback, CLTV/LTV, churn) and ability to apply them in decision-making.
• Comfortable working within public company reporting cycles, earnings prep, and investor-grade analysis.
• Partnered successfully with operational teams (R&D, Sales, Marketing) on budgets and cost discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a small team or process - setting deadlines, reviewing outputs, driving accountability.
• Comfortable working with large datasets and translating them into actionable insights.
• Hands-on experience with the “technological plumbing” of business – finance, HR, CRM, and data systems that keep operations running:
• EPM/FP&A tools (Adaptive [Workday] or equivalent)
• ERP (NetSuite or equivalent)
• CRM (Salesforce or equivalent)
• HRIS/payroll (Dayforce/Ceridian or equivalent)
• BI/dashboarding (Tableau or equivalent)
• Data warehouse (Snowflake or equivalent)

What Would be Nice (Preferred Skills)

• Experience implementing or designing Adaptive (Workday) systems.
• Advanced data science and automation skills - e.g., PowerQuery to automate data combination and analysis, or lightweight ETL processes to streamline FP&A workflows.
• Experience validating and cleaning complex, imperfect datasets.
• Proven ability to improve forecasting accuracy, reporting speed, or decision-usefulness through automation or data visualization.
• Ability to design audit-proof models that are easy to follow, maintain, and scale.
• A great sense of humor - if you can make the FP&A team laugh during quarter-end board deck prep, you’ll fit right in.

Who Are You / What Sets You Apart

• Keen attention to detail with superb technical and analytical skills.
• Excellent collaboration and communication abilities; you simplify complexity and focus on what moves the needle.
• An excellent financial modeler - you build models that are fast, flexible, and accurate.
• You don’t just pull numbers - you pressure-test assumptions, challenge inconsistencies, and drive toward outcomes.
• You take ownership - you manage your time and priorities well, don’t wait to be asked, and raise your hand when something doesn’t look right.
• Comfortable in the gray - quick to form a view, clear on trade-offs, and decisive under uncertainty.
• Experienced across the FP&A cycle and ready to step into a player-coach role, balancing hands-on work with oversight.
• Passionate about teaching and mentoring - you can take a team with passion and raw talent, identify new strengths, and channel it into excellence.

What Success Looks Like in Year One

• You’ve expanded the team by hiring and onboarding an additional analyst, strengthening FP&A capacity.
• You’ve built or upgraded forecasting models that executives actively use to steer key decisions.
• You’ve commanded the trust and loyalty of senior executives - seen as a partner whose judgment shapes company priorities.
• You’ve led financial support for go-to-market reviews and calls, bringing data-driven clarity to pipeline, pricing, and ROI.
• You’ve partnered with business unit leaders across R&D, Sales, and Marketing to improve decision-making and accountability.
• You’ve identified at least one major business inefficiency and helped reallocate spend to higher-ROI areas.
• You’ve helped the company say “no” to low-value projects and double down on the right ones - backing it up with data.
• You’ve elevated FP&A processes - planning, reporting, forecasting - to deliver more signal and less noise, while building credibility as a leader who mentors analysts, enforces process discipline, and raises the quality bar.