Senior Strategic Finance Analyst

Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses generate positive media coverage, monitor mentions to manage brand reputation, and analyze PR’s impact on business outcomes. By combining media database, monitoring, and reporting into one dynamic platform, we empower teams to collaborate seamlessly, pitch effectively, and analyze results faster and more efficiently.

Founder-controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion, and infuse these values into everything we do. 

We’re looking for an analytical and entrepreneurial Senior Strategic Finance Analyst to join our quickly growing team to drive meaningful impact across the company. 

You will drive financial analyses, build and own reports/KPIs, and model business outcomes to provide visibility into the company’s operations and inform strategic decision-making in the Revenue org and across the company. You will report to the Director, Strategic Finance, and get significant exposure to the CFO as well as other leaders across the org.  

What you’ll do:

• Build driver-based financial models and scenario analyses that support annual planning, forecasting, and long-range strategic decision making
• Own and maintain Muck Rack’s financial planning infrastructure in Pigment, ensuring models are reliable, well-documented, and connected to accurate source data
• Serve as the primary finance partner for non-headcount expense management across the company, helping business leaders track spend against plan and proactively identify risks and opportunities
• Analyze performance across key business functions and prepare executive-ready insights to support monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reviews
• Improve and automate KPI reporting using tools such as Equals, Google Sheets, and Looker to reduce manual work and increase leadership visibility into business performance
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the GTM, Engineering, Analytics and Finance teams to define metrics, build business cases, and evaluate the impact of strategic initiatives
• Perform ad hoc analysis to support company growth and efficiency initiatives using internal data sources and external benchmarks
• Continuously improve finance tooling and workflows by identifying opportunities to streamline processes and leverage new technologies

If the details below describe you, you could be a great fit for this role:

• 3–5 years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or a related finance role
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills with advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets
• Experience managing budgeting or expense tracking for business functions or departments
• Hands-on experience with financial planning platforms such as Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive Insights, or similar tools
• Experience working in SaaS, technology, or other high-growth business environments
• Strong understanding of SaaS and GTM metrics such as ARR, NRR, bookings vs. revenue, churn, and funnel conversion
• Experience working with operational data sources such as Salesforce, Looker, or NetSuite; SQL familiarity is a plus
• Ability to translate complex financial analysis into clear narratives for executives and cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with confidence presenting financial insights to leadership
• Curiosity, ownership mentality, and a willingness to dig into data to uncover the “why” behind performance
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and improving processes in evolving environments
• Interest in leveraging technology and automation to improve financial workflows and reporting
• Proactively incorporate AI tools into day to day work to improve productively and accelerate delivery

Interview Overview 

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

• A 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
• A 45-minute Zoom interview with the hiring manager
• Live Session (30 minutes max)
• Peer panels
• Final call(s) with executive team member(s) 

Travel & Team Engagement Expectations