Strategic Finance Senior Manager

Navan (Nasdaq: NAVN) is the leading all-in-one business travel, payments, and expense management platform. Our mission is to make travel easy for every frequent traveler by delivering an intuitive experience that travelers love and finance teams rely on. From AI-driven search to automated expense reconciliation, we help our customers focus on the human connections that drive their success. Our team is our competitive edge—a high-performance group of smart, driven people committed to winning together. At Navan, we provide an environment where top talent excels, offering the autonomy and fast-paced trajectory needed to build a defining career.

Role Overview Navan is seeking a Senior Manager to join our Strategic Finance team, serving as the strategic right-hand finance business partner to the CEO/CEO of the Growth Business. Based in Israel and reporting to US-based leadership, this is a highly autonomous, individual contributor role focused on building the business's financial foundation from the ground up.

To be successful in this role, you must be comfortable "living in the grey." We are looking for an independent operator who thrives in an ever-changing, ambiguous environment and does not require a fully built playbook or heavy coaching to execute. You must be comfortable not always having the answers immediately, pivoting priorities on a dime, and making confident decisions autonomously. You will not just be reporting numbers; you are expected to form strong opinions, link financial stories with KPIs, and actively drive outcomes to guide executive growth decisions.

What You’ll Do:

Strategic Partnership: Act as the definitive finance voice embedded within the business. Provide highly autonomous, opinionated strategic partnership to executive leaders across the Navan Growth Organization.
Financial Forecasting: Lead end-to-end forecasting cycles (quarterly, annual, and multi-year) for Navan Growth across revenue, COGS, gross margin, and OpEx to illuminate emerging financial trends and drive operational efficiency.
Business Insights & Decision Making: Act as a subject matter expert on Growth economics. Bring strong, data-backed opinions to the table to build business cases and assess strategic decisions relating to company growth and profitability initiatives.
Building for Scale: Operate comfortably in an unstructured environment by building financial models from scratch, defining success metrics, and partnering with Product, Marketing, and Revenue teams from ideation through scale.
Data Analysis & KPI Reporting: Investigate financial discrepancies, identify root causes, and deliver clear, actionable KPI reporting to stakeholders that highlights key trends and recommendations and make do from limited data points.
Process Automation: Evolve and automate financial models and reporting frameworks to support the business, enhance forecasting precision, and eliminate manual bottlenecks.

What We’re Looking For:

Experience: 7+ years of demonstrated experience in a finance-related role. A background in investment banking is highly preferred, alongside finance/operations experience within a top-tier technology company.
Extreme Autonomy & Adaptability: Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. You do not wait for instructions; you proactively identify problems, propose solutions, and drive processes forward. You are entirely comfortable managing shifting priorities with a strong bias for action.
Remote Collaboration: Proven success working highly independently with remote/international leadership, requiring minimal daily oversight to produce high-impact results.
Technical Skills: Expert proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, strong financial modeling skills, and experience with SQL. Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g., ThoughtSpot, Tableau, Power BI).
Strategic Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. You possess a proven ability to convey insights through data storytelling, formulate strong opinions, and influence executive decision-making.
PLG Expertise: Hands-on experience supporting Product-Led Growth (PLG) and new product launches, including launch business cases, pricing and packaging analysis, cohort and funnel metrics (activation, conversion, retention), and post-launch performance tracking.
Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field is required. An MBA or relevant professional certification (e.g., CFA, CPA) is a plus.
Tools Familiarity: Experience with financial planning tools such as Anaplan, Cognos TM1, or Hyperion Essbase is a plus.

Why Join Us? This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible impact on Navan’s travel business by delivering actionable insights, enabling data-driven decisions, and driving financial strategy from the ground up. If you’re a highly analytical, self-directed professional looking to grow with a fast-scaling company, we’d love to hear from you.

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About Navan

Navan (Nasdaq: NAVN) is the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform that makes travel easy for frequent travelers. From finding flights and hotels, to automating expense reconciliation, with 24/7 support along the way, Navan delivers an intuitive experience travelers love and finance teams rely on. See how Navan customers benefit and learn more at navan.com.

Culture of Excellence

Our team is our competitive edge — a high-performance group of smart, driven people committed to winning together. This dedication to excellence is why we’ve been recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In (2023–2026), a G2 Best Global Software Company (2025–2026), Forbes Cloud 100 (2022–2025), and CNBC Disruptor 50 (2022–2025). At Navan, we provide an environment where top talent excels, offering the autonomy and fast-paced trajectory needed to build a defining career and do the best work of your life.

Our Benefits

Navan offers a comprehensive benefits program designed to support your well-being, financial security, and life outside of work. Our benefits, thoughtfully tailored by country to meet local needs, include healthcare coverage, insurance offerings, and wellness resources for you and your family.

We support long-term financial growth through retirement savings programs and opportunities to participate in our equity plans, so you can share in Navan’s success. To promote balance, we offer flexible time off, country-specific holidays, and paid parental leave for all new parents. Additional benefits include connectivity and commuting support*, mental health resources, and exclusive travel-related perks. Wherever you’re based, our benefits evolve with you.

Workplace Policy

Navan believes in the value of in-person connections, whether that’s sitting down to have lunch with one another, taking a walking 1:1, or collaborating in a room together. The connections forged through face-to-face interactions improve company culture and drive business results. Navan invests in global office spaces — in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, among others — that feel welcoming. In-office perks such as company-provided lunches and happy hours create a strong team environment to help you do your best work. Our employees work from the office four days a week. Please expect this policy for all roles that are tied to an office.

Equal Opportunity

Navan is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We prohibit any such discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring.

Accommodations

Navan complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local law. Navan will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability in connection with applications for employment as required by law.

If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, you are welcome to email us at talent-accommodations@navan.com.

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Job Search Best Practices

We have been made aware of recruitment scams involving fraudulent attempts to lure job seekers into sending money or personal information in return for fake job offers or coerce them into purchasing equipment by electronic funds transfer (Zelle, Venmo, etc.) Legitimate Navan recruiters will never ask for money in any recruitment or onboarding activities. All available job openings at Navan will be posted on Navan’s website and all Navan recruiters will be reachable through an email address ending in “@navan.com” or “@navan.tech” or "@talent.navan.com".

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