Senior Strategic Finanace Associate
Own end-to-end financial planning for a major domain (GTM, R&D, or G&A), build investment cases, and design scalable planning processes as a trusted advisor to functional leaders.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end financial planning process for a major domain (GTM, R&D, or G&A) — from brief to delivery — setting quality standards and accountability mechanisms
- Define the 6–12 month financial strategy for your domain, validating assumptions with business partners and translating strategy into financial outcomes and leading indicators
- Build business cases for major investments with clear assumptions, risk quantification, and second-order effects
- Design and improve planning processes, tooling, and data definitions that reduce rework across teams and raise the quality of financial outputs org-wide
- Lead cross-functional analyses with clear milestones and owners, resolving forecast disagreements with principled rationale and crisp financial narratives
- Partner with functional budget owners to ensure data quality, metric consistency, and alignment on assumptions
Requirements
- 5–8 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience, ideally in high-growth SaaS; demonstrated ownership of a planning domain end-to-end
- Proven ability to design planning processes and frameworks and to influence decisions across teams without direct authority
- Expert-level financial modeling skills; fluent in SaaS unit economics, driver-based forecasting, 3-statement modeling, and scenario/sensitivity analysis
- Deep expertise across multiple planning domains (GTM, R&D, G&A); experience partnering with senior functional leaders on budget strategy and investment decisions
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with BI tools, FP&A platforms, and ERP systems; comfortable specifying data needs and improving data quality upstream
- Excellent communication skills — can distill complex financial analysis into crisp narratives tailored to exec audiences
- BS/BA in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA or CFA a plus
Nice-to-Haves
- MBA or CFA
Skills
FP&A, Strategic Finance, Financial Modeling, SQL, Saas Unit Economics, Driver-Based Forecasting, 3-Statement Modeling, Scenario Analysis, BI Tools, ERP Systems
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