Senior Financial Analyst – Strategic Finance & Special Projects
Senior Financial Analyst supporting CEO, CFO, and FP&A leadership on complex strategic projects, financial modeling, and data-driven decision-making for a high-growth B2C SaaS company.
About the job
Essential Job Duties & Functions
- Lead end-to-end analysis on special and ad hoc projects assigned by the CEO, CFO, and Senior Director of FP&A — with a primary focus on operational and business performance across the company, identifying trends and anomalies, constructing a narrative, and delivering clear recommendations.
- Perform financial modeling and analysis to evaluate organic and inorganic growth opportunities, new business lines, pricing strategies, operational investments, etc.
- Manage ad-hoc projects that include areas of analysis such as market sizing, scenario modeling, long-term strategic opportunity assessment, etc., as directed.
- Develop and stress-test business cases for major strategic initiatives, providing leadership with a grounded view of expected returns and key assumptions.
- Independently source, extract, and manipulate data from multiple internal and external sources — operating as a self-sufficient analytical resource (including Tableau, Pitchbook, Amplitude, etc.)
- Partner closely with the Business Intelligence team to build scalable data pipelines, improve data accessibility, and inform the development of analytical infrastructure that supports the broader finance function.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, or a related analytical field.
- Five (5) or more years of experience in finance, strategy, investment banking, management consulting, or a related analytical function.
- Advanced SQL proficiency — comfortable writing complex queries, joining multiple data sources, and extracting insights independently from large datasets.
- Strong financial modeling capabilities, including scenario analysis, sensitivity modeling, DCF, and ROI frameworks.
- Experience working directly with or embedded near a Business Intelligence or data engineering function.
- Demonstrated ability to operate in high-ambiguity environments with minimal direction, structuring problems from scratch and driving to actionable conclusions.
- Exceptional written communication skills — regularly produce narrative-format analyses and recommendations for senior leadership.
- Proven comfort presenting complex analyses to C-suite and senior executives, including handling pushback and adapting on the fly.
- A desire to learn and actively leverage AI tools to improve analytical speed and quality.
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously.
- Experience in a B2C SaaS or subscription business is strongly preferred.
Added Bonuses
- MBA or advanced degree in a relevant field
- M&A, corporate development, or investment banking experience
Skills
SQL, Tableau, Pitchbook, Amplitude, Financial Modeling, Dcf, ROI Analysis, Scenario Analysis, Sensitivity Modeling, Data Pipelines
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