Full-Time

Strategic Finance Advisor

Drivetrain

Drivetrain

51-200 employees

Integrates cross-department data for real-time BI

No salary listed

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Finance & Banking (1)
Required Skills
Financial analysis
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
Financial Modeling
Requirements
  • 2-5 years of relevant experience in corporate FP&A setups
  • Top-notch written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong analytical skills with a creative mind
  • A collaborative mindset
  • A desire to help others, whether they be colleagues or customers
Responsibilities
  • Be the subject matter expert providing the bridge between our product team and our customers.
  • Help define product strategy and identify key features that will delight our customers and meet their needs.
  • Assist our customers in developing templates and models for their unique business within Drivetrain so they can derive the greatest value possible from the platform.
  • Work closely with sales and marketing teams to design and implement customer success strategies.
  • Identify new use cases that Drivetrain can solve through facilitated daily interactions with customers.
  • Provide technical guidance to our customers on financial reporting, defining business metrics, conducting financial analyses within Drivetrain.
  • Assist sales on calls when appropriate to provide deeper dives into the functional use cases of the product.
  • Collaborate with industry leaders, investors and CFOs to build an expert-level understanding of tech trends impacting the CFO's office.
  • Serve as a champion of Drivetrain within the larger community of strategic finance professionals, evangelising its applications.
  • Build a small team of customer success specialists and interns, establishing individual and team metrics and reporting on their success.

Drivetrain.ai offers a data platform that helps businesses streamline operations by integrating data from multiple departments (sales, marketing, HR, and customer success) into a single view. It enables real-time access to data and reporting, moving away from delayed monthly reports. The platform also provides a financial model template to plug in actuals and generate projections. Pricing is subscription-based, with revenue generated from customers using the platform. How it works: the platform connects and unifies data from various sources, then delivers dashboards, reports, and insights that support decision-making across teams. It emphasizes ease of use and real-time data access to serve as a strategic partner for sales and marketing teams. Goals: help businesses make data-driven decisions, improve cross-department collaboration, and provide forecasting tools to support financial planning.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$15M

Headquarters

Bengaluru, India

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Real-time KPI visibility accelerates adoption in mid-market companies.
  • What-if scenario modeling aligns with 67% of CFO predictive priorities.
  • GTM funnel analytics meets B2B SaaS sales and marketing demands.

What critics are saying

  • Oracle NetSuite's FP&A module expansion cannibalizes integrations in 3-6 months.
  • Anaplan locks enterprises, forcing Drivetrain to discount SMBs in 6-12 months.
  • No funding since 2022 Series A triggers layoffs in 6-12 months.

What makes Drivetrain unique

  • Drivetrain offers AI-native Autonomous FP&A automating 80% of manual workloads.
  • Simple English formulas create easy financial models and visualizations.
  • Integrates with 200+ tools like Salesforce and NetSuite seamlessly.

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Remote Work Options

Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

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TechCrunch
Oct 18th, 2022
Drivetrain Is The “Google Maps For Business Growth”

Businesses usually plot their growth strategies on spreadsheets, but Drivetrain wants to provide a faster alternative for financial planning and decision making. The startup, which calls itself “Google Maps for business growth,” announced today that it has raised $15 million from Elevation Capital, Jungle Ventures and Venture Highway, plus 25 angel investors. One of Drivetrain’s goals is to help companies identify performance issues before it affects their finances. It integrates with 200 business tools, including Salesforce, Netsuite, Quickbooks, Workday and Looker, and delivers a “system of metrics” in simple formulas, to help companies create financial models and visualizations

YourStory
Oct 18th, 2022
SaaS startup Drivetrain AI raises $15M in Series A round

Founded by ex-Partner at Elevation Capital Alok Goel with Tarkeshwar Thakur and Saurav Bhagat, Drivetrain helps businesses manage financial planning and track progress on a single dashboard.