# Lead FP&A & Strategic Finance Analyst

**Company:** [Tigerdata](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tigerdata)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $150k – $165k/yr
**Skills:** FP&A, Financial Modeling, Forecasting, Variance Analysis, Headcount Planning, SQL, Dashboarding, Kpi Reporting, Commission Plan Administration, Gtm Analytics
**Posted:** 2026-06-17

> Lead FP&A analyst partnering with GTM leadership on headcount forecasting, departmental budgeting, pipeline analysis, and commission plan design. Owns financial modeling, SQL-based data pulls, KPI dashboards, and scalable planning processes in a high-growth environment.

## Job Description

## 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

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