Financial Analysis Manager

About Us Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.   Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.   Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

The Financial Analysis Manager, Marketing Finance will partner with Marketing leadership to own planning, forecasting, spend management, and investment analysis while connecting marketing performance to pipeline, topline growth, ROI, and financial targets. This role provides decision support to optimize resources, improve investment visibility, and align marketing spend to business priorities.

 

What You Will Do

• Lead annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and monthly financial reporting for the Marketing organization.
• Manage and analyze marketing-driven pipeline, bookings, conversion rates, and other topline growth metrics to assess performance against plan and guide investment decisions.
• Partner with Marketing and Sales Operations to improve visibility into funnel health, campaign impact, pipeline quality, and conversion performance.
• Monitor funnel progression across key stages, including lead generation, MQLs, SQLs, opportunities, pipeline creation, velocity, and conversion rates.
• Identify funnel gaps, leakage points, and performance trends to highlight where marketing programs are accelerating growth or require corrective action.
• Partner with Marketing leaders to evaluate investments, spending priorities, business cases, and resource allocation decisions.