# FP&A Analyst

**Company:** [Tigerdata](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tigerdata)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $110k – $135k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, Forecasting, Budget Management, Variance Analysis, headcount planning, Financial Reporting, Data Analysis, AI Tools, spreadsheet modeling, executive presentations
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> FP&A Analyst responsible for owning headcount planning, COGS forecasting, marketing spend analysis, weekly ARR forecasts, and preparing executive/Board materials with clear performance narratives. Requires strong FP&A experience, financial modeling skills, intellectual curiosity, and comfort partnering with leaders.

## Job Description

## 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.

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