Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Payscale is a compensation intelligence and SaaS company that helps organizations make smarter pay decisions through market data and AI-powered technology. The Senior Financial Analyst will support the FP&A team by improving financial operations, forecasting, reporting, scenario analysis, business partnering, and financial strategy while leveraging AI and financial systems to drive efficiency and actionable insights.
Responsibilities
- Assist us in building best-in-class financial operations, data accuracy, forecasting capabilities, and actionable analyses
- Leverage AI to automate and accelerate: use AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, streamline reporting and workflows, and free up time for higher-value analysis
- Embrace our culture of rigor, discipline, accuracy, consistency, and accountability, both in the FP&A org and across the entire business
- Work with your teammates, peers, and partners in the business to understand the underlying trends and metrics driving our business and develop ways to influence the direction we are heading
- Engage in real, robust business partnering to help drive efficiencies, best practices, and optimal risk taking across the business
- Drive operational improvements throughout all aspects of the business, across all three financial statements
- Learn our financial reporting tool (Adaptive Insights) and use it in your day-to-day workflows
- Ad-hoc scenario analysis that drives actionable business changes
- Lead your portion of the monthly close process; investigate and resolve issues and then communicate to your peers and partners
- Help develop and execute financial strategies that align with the company's growth objectives
Skills
- • You are an inquisitive individual and like to understand how things work
- • AI-forward: you are genuinely interested in AI and eager to use it to automate manual tasks, improve workflows, and realize efficiencies in how FP&A work gets done
- • You have a strong bias towards building (and rebuilding) things instead of simply maintaining existing processes. When you do run processes, you're always thinking about how to make them better
- • You like to dive into the data, run analyses, and then help make recommendations to others on how we can improve
- • You're adept at building relationships across the organization, helping translate what the numbers mean to others and what we should do about it
- • 4+ years of financial analysis experience or a related field. Multiple years of experience in a relevant environment is more important than any specific amount of time. Relevant experience means SaaS/tech, PE or VC backed, and a high intensity environment. Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. We do want to see steady progression in your career
- • Experience in a SaaS business model is a strong positive, but we are ultimately looking for talent and fit
- • Ideally, experience with go-to-market (GTM) and top-line FP&A reporting and analytics within SaaS—forecasting and analyzing ARR, bookings, pipeline, and the drivers of revenue
- • We are a Microsoft shop. Please have excellent Excel skills, or be able to get there fast
- • Please be highly analytical, with a keen eye for detail and a learning mindset
- • Possession of excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial data to non-financial stakeholders
- • Be ok with working very hard, while being rewarded for it
- • Technical: you are proficient in Excel and have used Adaptive Insights in the past (or some sort of FP&A planning tool)
- • Accuracy: you strive for excellence and have great attention to detail
- • Time management: you understand and are flexible when we need to re-prioritize work based on the needs of the business
- While you can be anywhere in the States, please note that the FP&A leadership is located on the West Coast of the United States
- • High-Speed Internet - A stable broadband or fiber connection (satellite is highly discouraged) with a minimum speed of 100 Mbps in a dedicated workspace that has a reliable Wi-Fi signal
- • Device for Multifactor Authentication (MFA/2FA) - smartphone, tablet, etc
- Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, UK, The Philippines, and Romania however we are currently unable to hire in Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii
Benefits
- Employee-centric remote-first model with flexibility to work from home, in company-paid co-working spaces, or a combination of the two
- Monthly company All Hands meetings
- Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs
- Access to continued learning & development opportunities
- A continuous feedback culture that allows employees to drive performance and career growth
- A growing network of Employee Resource Groups
- Company sponsored volunteer hours
- Flexible paid time off
- 14 Paid Company Holidays, including 2 floating holidays
- A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale
- Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through our medical plans
- Additional supplemental health benefits offered to you and your family
- 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations
- Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment
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