FP&A Analyst

Responsibilities

• Own headcount planning, forecasting, and budget tracking across the business, including approved roles, hiring timing, compensation assumptions, and changes against plan.
• Maintain a clear view of cost of goods sold; support recurring COGS forecasting, variance analysis, and performance reporting.
• Partner with Marketing to monitor spend, understand changes against budget, and evaluate the financial impact of programs, campaigns, and partnerships.
• Support the weekly ARR forecast by gathering inputs, validating assumptions, identifying changes, and helping maintain a reliable forecasting cadence.
• Prepare recurring financial slides, executive materials, and written performance updates that explain what changed, why it changed, and what requires attention.
• Run budget-versus-actual analysis and follow up with department leaders on spending changes, risks, and forecast updates.
• Support monthly and quarterly planning conversations with clear financial analysis and well-organized materials.
• Partner with Accounting during the month-end close to improve the accuracy and timeliness of accruals, expense reporting, and variance explanations.
• Improve recurring FP&A processes, templates, and reporting workflows.
• Work directly with financial and operating data, validating inputs, identifying inconsistencies, and escalating issues.
• Use AI tools to accelerate analysis, draft initial performance narratives, identify trends, and improve recurring workflows while maintaining strong human judgment, confidentiality, and financial accuracy.
• Own the creation of meticulous Board and executive materials, including financial slides, performance narratives, variance explanations, and supporting analysis.

Requirements

• Strong FP&A experience, including forecasting, headcount planning, budget management, and variance analysis.
• Ability to independently manage recurring financial processes and produce accurate work with limited supervision.
• Comfortable partnering directly with department leaders and asking thoughtful questions when assumptions or spending plans do not make sense.
• Ability to move from financial data to a clear written explanation of business performance.
• Strong sense of intellectual curiosity and constantly asking “why” rather than simply reporting the numbers.
• Strong spreadsheet and financial modeling skills; comfortable working with large or imperfect datasets.
• Care deeply about data integrity and will investigate a number that looks wrong.
• Curious about how AI can improve finance workflows and have demonstrated sound judgment in applying AI tools to analytical work.
• Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience using AI tools in finance workflows.

Compensation

Salary range: $110,000 – $135,000 USD annually, plus bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits including health insurance and flexible/unlimited PTO.