Finance and Strategy Analyst

Job Description

We're looking for a Finance and Strategy Analyst to join our growing team. As a key member of the Finance & Strategy team, you will help us with forecasting, budgeting, and reporting for various departments accurately and in a timely manner. You will also deliver improvements in our integrated financial systems with business partners, financial colleagues, and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with business leaders to drive successful outcomes
• Leverage your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions
• Be your business teams' financial partner for analysis and evaluation of strategic projects and initiatives
• Design and provide analytical rigor to measure efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses
• Drive reporting, process, and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making
• Build and own models for in-depth analyses, as well as ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy
• Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance
• Partner with cross-functional teams, such as Data Science, to develop reporting dashboards and forecasts
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification, and reporting enhancements

Requirements

• 5-7 years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&A
• A keen analytical eye and experience building integrated models from scratch
• Experience driving and executing on finance processes
• A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners
• A proven ability to be a self-starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision
• The ability to maintain high performance under tight timelines and a 'roll up your sleeves' mindset to get any job done
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to work independently, analyze problems, and data sets to make complex investigation decisions
• Strong knowledge of GSuite tools, Salesforce, and MS-Office products and experience working with/analyzing large data sets
• Independently extract, analyze, and evaluate information from various data sources through proficiency in SQL
• Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
• Demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results
• Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices
• Self-disciplined, diligent, proactive, and detail-oriented

Nice to Have

• Experience working at a high-growth technology or financial services company
• Experience managing headcount and operating expenses
• Experience supporting Go-to-Market and/or Product Functions
• Oracle, Anaplan, Tableau, or other equivalent application experience
• Experience with Python or a willingness to learn
• Experience in data visualization and dashboarding