Sr Manager, Financial & Strategic Planning

About the role

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via Licensing Alliance is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance financial models for existing and prospective licensing programs, including revenue, royalty, participation, distribution, cost, margin, and profitability forecasts.
• Lead and support annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range strategic planning processes, translating business objectives into measurable financial and operating plans.
• Build market-sizing and revenue models incorporating technology adoption, unit volumes, pricing, royalty structures, penetration rates, program participation, and other key commercial assumptions.
• Conduct scenario, sensitivity, and risk analyses to support new program development, commercial negotiations, licensing strategy, strategic initiatives, and executive decision-making.
• Evaluate alternative royalty structures, licensing models, pricing approaches, and commercial terms, and quantify their financial impact on Via and participating stakeholders.
• Partner with Finance, Licensing, Business Development, Program Management, Legal, Royalty Services, and technical teams to evaluate new opportunities and develop investment and business cases.
• Track actual performance against forecasts, analyze material variances, and identify the underlying business, market, operational, or licensing drivers behind performance trends.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and recurring reporting tools to monitor program performance, pipeline development, licensee penetration, revenue growth, cost trends, and other strategic priorities.
• Analyze industry, technology, competitive, customer, and macroeconomic trends that could affect licensing revenues, royalty flows, program economics, or long-term strategic plans.
• Prepare executive and board-level presentations, financial analyses, strategic insights, and recommendations that clearly communicate business performance, opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Develop frameworks for prioritizing new initiatives based on expected financial return, strategic importance, execution risk, market opportunity, resource requirements, and organizational capacity.
• Improve forecasting methodologies and establish consistent assumptions, data inputs, analytical standards, and review processes across business cases and planning cycles.
• Serve as a trusted analytical partner to business leaders by providing thoughtful financial guidance, proactive insights, and practical recommendations that support Via’s growth strategy.

Qualifications and Skills

• 8+ years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, strategic finance, corporate finance, business planning, licensing economics, consulting, investment analysis, or a related field.
• Strong financial modeling skills, including experience building revenue forecasts, scenario analyses, sensitivity models, business cases, valuation analyses, or long-range planning models.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial, operational, market, and commercial information into clear insights and actionable recommendations for senior leaders.
• Experience supporting annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, KPI reporting, or strategic planning processes in a complex business environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with large or imperfect data sets, develop sound assumptions, and clearly explain key drivers and tradeoffs.
• Excellent business judgment and strategic thinking, with the ability to connect financial analysis to broader company priorities, market opportunities, and operational realities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to prepare executive-ready materials and explain complex financial concepts to both finance and non-finance audiences.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across Finance, Licensing, Business Development, Program Management, Legal, Royalty Services, and executive leadership.
• High degree of ownership, initiative, intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and accountability, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel or similar financial modeling tools; experience with Power BI, Tableau, Salesforce, CRM data, ERP systems, planning tools, or other business intelligence platforms is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field required; MBA, CPA, CFA, or other advanced degree or financial certification is preferred.
• Experience in intellectual property, patent licensing, technology, media, software, semiconductors, telecommunications, professional services, or another data-intensive business environment is preferred.