Job Description

Senior Financial Analyst

 

Summary/objective

The Senior Financial Analyst (SFA) will act as a strategic business partner to the company's leadership in partnership with the Finance organization.

 

Core Job Duties:

• Financial subject matter expert for a business functional
• Provide insights and analysis through data mining and interpreting complex data sets to assist with sound decision-making.
• Contribute to the multi‐year, annual and quarterly planning and forecasting
• Assist in development and support of weekly, monthly and quarterly management reporting cadence that provides continuous insight into the performance of the business, including trends, variances and risk assessments.
• Reporting and communication of key messages to ensure senior leadership maintains focus on what matters most and has an opportunity to quickly remediate issues.
• Identify and implement process improvements for operational efficiency.

 

SFA – Strategic Finance

• Involved in all aspects of the financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting/modeling including but not limited to:
  • customer acquisition
  • customer retention
  • upsells and downgrades
  • associated economic drivers and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Work collaboratively across the Finance organization as a business partner supporting the FP&A organization, strategic finance team and the accounting team.
• Provide insight and analysis around the revenue model, revenue performance, scenario planning and potential outcomes.

 

SFA – Corporate FP&A

• Involved in all aspects of the financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting/modeling including but not limited to:
  • Variance and ad-hoc analysis
  • Headcount and expense modeling
  • Financial Reporting (BvA, Board, Pro Forma, Lender, Executive)
  • Annual budgeting and monthly/quarterly forecasting
• Collaborate cross functionally as a business partner to executives and budget owners to understand key drivers of performance and provide insight/recommendations for improvement.
• Integration of acquired company data for analysis and reporting
• Assist in researching reporting improvements/streamlining (DW, BI, AI).

 

Job Complexity

A seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization. Emerging understanding of broader organizational context and goals. Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways. This job is a fully qualified, career‐oriented, journey‐ level position.

 

Interaction

Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.

 

Supervision

Normally receives little instruction on day‐to‐day work, general instructions on new assignments.

Experience

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a

Master's degree or equivalent work experience.

Scope

N/A

Discretion

N/A

Minimum Qualifications

• 4‐7 years related experience, ideally in a SaaS
• Demonstrated ability to use data and provide thoughtful analysis
• High level of comfort interacting with various functional areas and levels of leadership
• Strong analytical skills coupled with an understanding of business dynamics
• Excellent communication,