Sr. Financial Analyst

Job Posted: 8/7/2024

Location: Remote - America’s

Hi there!

We're looking for a Sr. Strategic Finance Analyst who’s excited to make a big impact alongside the all-star strategic finance team, tackling the most top-of-mind issues related to our Self Serve selling motion. If you love a good model, lots of data, in-depth financial analysis, and cross-functional collaboration, read on…

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About You:

• This isn’t your first rodeo. You have 5+ years of FP&A, Investment Banking, or Management Consulting experience.

• You understand bottoms up financial modeling: You have experience building bottoms up financial models with forward assumption based projections.

• You love to build. You like to build new models and processes, as well as improve existing ones. You’re driven by first principles and efficiency to get stuff done.

• You’re resourceful. You love a challenge and always question the status quo. You are highly adaptive and enjoy getting creative to solve new problems.

• You love data (a lot). You are innately curious, analyze everything, look for trends, and always forever truth-seeking.  Experience writing SQL is a plus.

• You care about the nitty gritty. You are detail-oriented, highly organized, understand priorities, and thrive in a fast paced environment.

• You're eager to take on any project that comes your way no matter how big or how small.

• You love to collaborate and coordinate. You are excited to regularly connect with leadership and other stakeholders.

Things You’ll Do:

Zapier is a fast-growing and remote-first company, so you'll likely get experience on many different projects across the organization. That said, here are the core responsibilities for this role:

• Own and improve the ARR forecasting model for our Self Serve selling motion

• Work closely with our various marketing teams to set budgets, KPI’s and understand ROI by channel

• Work closely with stakeholders across Zapier on annual planning

• Conduct monthly variance analysis and identify key drivers for budget variances with Marketing

• Consolidate financial information for our quarterly board package

• Help drive weekly / monthly / quarterly financial and operational business reviews with leadership team across multiple different departments to drive strategic decision making

• Conduct various ad hoc analysis in partnership with the data team to identify and explain trends / anomalies in the business to finance / business leadership

How to Apply

At Zapier, we believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us better, which is why we have a non-standard application process designed to promote inclusion and equity. We're looking for the best fit for each of our roles, regardless of the type of education or companies in your background, so we encourage you to apply even if your skills and experiences don’t exactly match the job description. All we ask is that you answer a few in-depth questions in our application that would typically be asked at the start of an interview process. This helps speed things up by letting us get to know you and your skillset a bit better right out of the gate. Please be sure to answer each question; the resume and CV fields are optional.

After you apply, you are going to hear back from us—even if we don’t see an immediate fit with our team. In fact, throughout the process, we strive to never go more than seven days without letting you know the status of your application. We know we’ll make mistakes from time to time, so if you ever have questions about where you stand or about the process, just ask your recruiter!

Zapier is an equal-opportunity employer and we're excited to work with talented and empathetic people of all identities. Zapier does not di