Lead FP&A & Strategic Finance Analyst

Responsibilities

• Own core FP&A planning and operating rhythms
• Own headcount forecasting and hiring budget tracking across the business
• Support and improve the company’s departmental budgeting process, including planning, forecasting, reporting, and budget-versus-actual analysis
• Monitor departmental operating budgets, identify risks and changes against plan, understand ROI of spend, and drive follow-up actions with stakeholders
• Build trusted models, spreadsheets, and recurring reporting that leaders can understand, use, and make decisions from
• Help create scalable planning processes that improve visibility, accountability, and decision quality across the business
• Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing leadership to improve pipeline visibility, forecasting accuracy, and overall go-to-market performance
• Own the design, administration, and calculation of commission and incentive plans across GTM teams, including maintaining accurate payouts and supporting scalable compensation processes
• Build the reporting, dashboards, and KPI frameworks used to track revenue performance, identify trends, and support operational and strategic decision-making
• Use AI tools effectively to improve the speed, quality, and scalability of analysis and reporting workflows, while exercising strong judgment around accuracy, business context, and data integrity
• Pull and validate data independently using SQL
• Build spreadsheets and models that people can digest and trust
• Create very clear Google and PowerPoint slides

Requirements

• Strong FP&A and analytical fundamentals, including forecasting, headcount planning, variance analysis, operating expense management, and financial modeling
• Experience supporting go-to-market organizations through pipeline analysis, forecasting, KPI reporting, sales productivity analysis, and commission or incentive plan administration
• Comfortable working directly with raw data, including pulling, validating, and analyzing data using SQL
• Ability to connect operational metrics to financial outcomes and clearly communicate what changed, why it changed, and what the business should do next
• Deeply curious, instinctively ask follow-up questions, and feel unsatisfied stopping at surface-level explanations or reporting
• Can build spreadsheets, models, dashboards, and presentations that are accurate, digestible, and trusted by business leaders
• Comfortable partnering directly with leaders across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Finance to drive accountability, improve visibility, and support decision-making
• Strong judgment around AI tools and know how to use them to accelerate analysis and reporting without compromising accuracy, context, or data integrity
• Thrive in high-growth, ambiguous environments where systems and processes are still being built