Senior Financial Analyst

About the team

Zillow Group, Inc. is reimagining real estate to make it easier to unlock life’s next chapter. As the most visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow and its affiliates help high-intent movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first-class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing, and renting experiences. The Corporate FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) team is on the front line of Zillow Group’s highest priority critical initiatives and works on some of the company’s most visible projects. This role not only offers excellent exposure but also the chance to collaborate and drive meaningful results for an important group at our company. Join a dynamic team that helps drive the company towards its goals, with an abundance of growth opportunities along the way.

About the role

Zillow Group is looking for an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to join the Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis team! In this role you’ll build and drive financial insight, rigor, and efficiency on our growing FP&A team.  This includes partnering with leadership stakeholders across our Engineering and Technology team with strong connection points to the latest innovation and AI capabilities we are driving at Zillow. This highly visible role requires a personable, proactive, and analytical candidate with a proven track record of fostering relationships across functions and levels, allowing for the opportunity to influence business leaders on a regular basis.

You Will Get To:

• Partner closely with business team members and senior leaders to ensure we are making the right decisions today for sustainable, thoughtful, and efficient growth.

• Build and maintain processes to analyze business results and trends; provide analytical support and relevant insight to senior leadership.

• Drive the monthly expense forecasting and annual operating plan processes for each supported team.

• Develop and manage financial templates, encompassing actuals tracking, forecast/budget projections, and operating metrics

• Own headcount planning and management for each supported team within our Anaplan planning and reporting tool.

• Prepare financial analyses to support critical initiatives, investment and cost reduction opportunities.

• Identify and lead initiatives to continuously improve, automate, and scale forecasting and reporting tools, processes, and methodologies.

• Facilitate strategic decision making through positive relationships with internal business partners. Continuously identify and recommend areas to improve efficiency to leadership and peers.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $88,200.00 - $140,800.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field.

• 3-5 years of experience in financial analysis, preferably in an expense management/Technology support capacity.

• Expert in Microsoft Excel with strong analytical and quantitative skills and extensive experience building sophisticated financial models.

• Experience with Tableau and other data visualization solutions.

• Ability to cultivate relationships, earn trust, and build rapport with business partners.

• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex financial information to non-financial collaborators.

• Knowledge of GAAP to incorporate accounting treatment into forecast projections and financial results.

• A self-starter, who is able to think quickly and react to a changing busi