# Financial Analyst, Sales

**Company:** [Benchling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/benchling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $119k – $150k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, FP&A, Gaap Accounting, Budgeting, Forecasting, Sales Metrics Analysis, Excel, Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, Salesforce, Certinia
**Posted:** 2026-07-01

> Strategic Financial Analyst partnering with GTM/Sales teams on budgeting, forecasting, commissions, variance analysis, and metrics for a SaaS biotech platform. Requires 2+ years FP&A experience supporting sales at a SaaS company, strong modeling and communication skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and maintain full year budgets and quarterly forecasts for various Field Organizations (Sales, Solution Consulting, Sales Operations & Enablement, and Customer Success).
- Deliver monthly/quarterly analyses of financial results including BvA variances to plan, ensuring key issues, risks and business drivers are understood and proactively highlighted.
- Support commissions calculations and reporting, analytics and support annual comp plan design.
- Support the company-wide annual and long-range planning processes.
- Partner with Accounting on monthly close activities such as vendor trend reviews, closed-won opportunities, collections, and commissions payments.
- Develop and continually improve sales and customer metrics (revenue, ARR, ASP, seat penetration, quota attainment etc.).
- Partner with business leaders to drive strategic initiatives influencing business decisions and by providing proactive recommendations, backed by strong business and financial analysis.
- Drive ad-hoc projects and analysis to support Benchling’s long-term growth.

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics or equivalent area.
- 2–5 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience, with at least 2 years supporting a Sales or GTM org at a SaaS company.
- Strong understanding and substantial knowledge of complex financial modeling, GAAP accounting and FP&A best practices.
- Strong Communication Skills - ability to think logically, rationally, and strategically in order to distill and articulate complex data to drive business decisions.
- Experience presenting analyses to management and ability to lead and drive initiatives.
- Proficiency in Excel/Sheets and a planning tool (Adaptive, Anaplan, or equivalent) required.
- Salesforce and Certinia experience is a strong plus.

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