Senior FP&A Analyst, Cloud Hosting

GitLab is seeking a Senior FP&A Analyst, Cloud Hosting to join its Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. The successful candidate will provide timely, fact-based analysis and decision support for cloud and AI infrastructure investments.

Job Summary As a Senior FP&A Analyst, Cloud Hosting, you’ll be a finance partner on GitLab’s FP&A team, reporting to the Manager, FP&A. You'll turn complex financial, billing, and operational data into clear insights that help engineering and finance leaders make informed decisions.

Responsibilities

• Manage and report on cloud and AI-related expenses, maintaining forecast models that incorporate actual results, usage drivers, and business drivers.
• Execute recurring month-end close activities, including accruals, allocations, reconciliations, variance analysis, and close commentary.
• Support forecasting and annual planning cycles, and build or enhance financial models to answer new and evolving business questions.
• Partner with engineering, product, procurement, accounting, and finance stakeholders to gather inputs, resolve data questions, explain results, and support spending decisions.
• Access and analyze cloud billing information from provider consoles, billing exports, and other data sources, then translate findings into clear narratives, recommendations, and decision-support materials.
• Use AI tools to automate and improve recurring analysis, reporting, data preparation, and other finance workflows while improving data quality, accuracy, scalability, and operating efficiency.
• Own deliverables, communicate progress and risks proactively, and manage changing priorities in GitLab’s distributed, asynchronous environment.

Requirements

• Experience in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting, or finance business partnering, including exposure to vendor spend, forecasting, variance analysis, and month-end close activities.
• Strong Financial modeling and analytical skills, including the ability to work with detailed data, investigate variances, evaluate financial trade-offs, and build or enhance models from scratch.
• The ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear narratives and recommendations for cross-functional stakeholders.
• The ability to prioritize effectively, work independently, and communicate clearly in an asynchronous environment.
• Experience with cloud and AI vendor spend.
• Cloud cost management and FinOps experience is preferred but not required.

Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave