Senior FP&A Analyst, Go-to-Market

Summary

Looking for a company where the Financial Planning & Analysis team plays an integral role in decision making? If you answer yes, then you’ll find what you seek within Yelp’s growing FP&A function.

 

Business partners are eager for your financial expertise and value your help in understanding, tracking and managing finances and resources to achieve company goals. If you are someone who enjoys this type of FP&A environment and is looking to make an important impact to Yelp, then come join our team! 

 

The FP&A Senior Analyst role is ideal for highly-motivated individuals who function with confidence and expertise in a fast-paced and rapidly changing business environment. The Analyst will have direct visibility to senior members of Finance,significant interaction with the broader FP&A team across key functional areas, as well as partnering closely with cross functional business partners.  Candidates must have great communication and interpersonal skills, strong analytical ability, and an ability to balance the details against the bigger picture. The ideal candidate possesses a strong drive to exceed personal goals, and is naturally inclined to take on new challenges.

 

We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes. This is a full-time remote role based in the United States.

What you'll do:

• Planning & Forecasting: You will participate in corporate planning, budgeting, forecasting, annual and long-range planning in support of key areas (e.g. Revenue, Sales and Marketing, and Headcount expenses).
• Performance Management: You will provide accurate, timely, and actionable financial reporting and key business metrics to operating teams, gain key insights into spend trends with meaningful and actionable analyses.
• You will build thoughtful analyses to drive better investment decisions and optimal resource allocation.
• Business Partnering: You will build strong relationships and collaborate with business leaders to become a trusted advisor who highlights risks, spots opportunities, build simulations and sensitivity analysis.
• You will collaborate and communicate on a timely basis with the central heart of Corporate FP&A about monthly forecasts and other financial trends and developments.

What it takes to succeed:

• You have excellent customer focus, a service mentality, and the ability to partner closely with internal customers.
• You are self-driven, organized, detail-oriented, and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• You have extraordinary written and verbal communication skills.
• You have superior analytical and problem solving skills with superb attention to detail.
• You have demonstrated success working in a deadline driven and multi-tasking environment.
• You have demonstrated knowledge of forecasting and financial statement analysis.
• You have the desire to consistently exceed expectations and take on more responsibility.
• You have advanced (Excel) modeling chops.
• You have the ability to tailor messaging as required for audiences of varying levels of expertise.
• You have personal interest and passion for business, systems and modeling.
• You have 4+ years of progressive experience in finance or related field.
• You have experience with Anaplan, Oracle Financials, SQL and dashboarding.
• You have a BA/BS in Business, Finance, Economics, or equivalent.
• Publicly-traded, high-growth technology companies preferred.

What you'll get:

• Effective your first day: Full medical, vision, and dental 
• 15 days PTO (accrual begins on date of hire and increases with 2+ years of tenure thereafter), 12 paid holidays, plus one floating holiday
• Up to 14 weeks of parental leave
• Monthly wellness subsidy
• Work from home reimbursement
• Flexible spending account
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Compensation range for this position is $92,000.00- $156,000.00 annually. You may also be offered a bonus and benefits.

Closing

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”  We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard t