Deal Desk Analyst AMER

Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co .

What You Will Be Doing:

• Act as a business partner to Sales and Finance in developing strategies for complex deals with a focus on financial and revenue compliance
• Execute against and maintain AMER (North America, LATAM) geographic Deal Desk support framework
• Provide Deal Desk support for AMER super-geo Manager
• Enforce and manage approvals for non-standard deals and effectively collaborate across Sales, Finance, and Legal
• Serve as a trusted adviser to sales executives and their teams on pricing, product configuration, and business terms to support sales efforts
• Strong presence and communication with the Field.
• Ability to execute strategies and manage under supervision sales enablement, deal optimization, profitability and strategic positioning initiatives
• Drive and execute decision reviews, approvals, and executing across competencies (quoting, legal, revenue, etc.)
• Support the global Deal Desk leadership to deliver consistent and exceptional support to our sales organization
• Propose and execute initiatives as part of the long term strategy for the Deal Desk team and business
• High-energy, team-first attitude: motivated to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment to help our growing business

• Assess Financial and revenue risk on non-standard deals and understand and embed financial/legal compliance
• Propose and incorporate custom terms and legal edits into order forms and contract documents
• Coordinate and manage cross-departmental approvals outside of standard systematic workflow
• Maintain and update repository of legal language templates for non-standard deals for specific offerings
• Understand and enforce revenue recognition policies across all deals
• Support RFP/RFI/Vendor Questionnaires and drive the enablement process related to such requests.

• Create and manage systematic CRM workflows around Deal Desk sales engagement and Revenue team alerting for non-standard orders
• Conduct due diligence and construct financial and legal requirements for changes in existing offerings and launch of new offerings
• Identify gaps in current Deal Desk processes (both operational and systematic) and create improvements for efficiencies
• General experience in building IT requirements and enhancements, and project management

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or related competency
• 2+ years experience in Finance or related field
• At least 1 year of experience in Sales Operations, Channel Operations, Deal Desk, Contract Administration or related
• MBA a plus, but not required
• Strong attention to detail while multitasking
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• High proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Salesforce.com (CPQ a plus)
• Experience working in a SaaS or high-tech company is also a plus

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave