This is not your typical FP&A role. At Mitek, FP&A sits at the center of capital allocation, performance management, and executive decision-making at a public software company. Our mandate is not just to report what happened, but to help leadership decide where to invest, where to pull back, and how to steer the business.
Most FP&A teams spend the bulk of their time on the “what,” and many do a decent job explaining the “why.” At Mitek, we view that as table stakes. We intentionally focus our time on the higher-value questions: so what does this mean for us, and now what should we do.
You’ll join as a true player-coach. The role is hands-on. You will build models, run analysis, pressure-test assumptions, and prepare executive- and Board-level materials yourself. At the same time, you’ll mentor analysts and guide the core FP&A cadence, including AOP, long-range planning, re-forecasting, and business partnering.
Success requires strong FP&A fundamentals, comfort operating in the details, and ownership of outcomes. You will help build, improve, and automate processes so leadership gets timely, decision-useful insight rather than static reporting.
This role is for someone who still enjoys the grind and thrives in the details, but is ready to zoom out. You should think like an investor and be comfortable connecting unit economics, drivers, and cash flow to clear recommendations that influence the company’s next move.
About Mitek
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 (GTM) 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 mastery of the core FP&A cycle and some experience mentoring analysts or leading processes.
- 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.
- SaaS metrics expertise (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.
- Proven history of partnering 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 including:
- --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.
