Senior Manager, Special Projects

Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand.

Liftoff's solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

We're seeking a Senior Manager, Special Projects to join our Strategic Finance team in a high-impact, cross-functional role. This position spans forecasting and reporting support, operational finance projects, and strategic analysis. If you're intellectually curious, highly self-directed, and energized by variety including moving fluidly between supporting recurring Finance processes and owning standalone projects from framing through delivery, we want to hear from you!

Key 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. 

Qualifications:

• 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.&am