Location: Remote – West Coast preferred
About the Role
Seeking an experienced Financial Analyst to join a high-impact Finance & Business Planning organization. This role will support a centralized finance team responsible for core FP&A deliverables, strategic planning initiatives, forecasting, budgeting, and cross-functional finance projects.
The ideal candidate will bring strong FP&A expertise, excellent analytical and communication skills, and the ability to build effective relationships across finance and business teams. This is an opportunity to play a key role in improving finance processes, driving operational efficiency, and delivering high-quality financial insights that support business decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional finance ownership for a key business area, partnering with stakeholders to achieve financial and operational objectives.
- Develop and implement standardized FP&A processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and collaboration across finance teams.
- Lead monthly/quarterly close and forecasting cycles, including establishing timelines, templates, processes, and preparing variance/flux commentary and forecasts.
- Support the annual budgeting and planning process, partnering with FP&A teams to allocate resources, inform business decisions, and execute operational plans.
- Drive finance systems and process improvement initiatives, including opportunities to leverage technology and automation.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with FP&A, accounting, corporate finance, and other cross-functional teams.
- Provide financial analysis, insights, and recommendations to diverse stakeholders.
- Support risk management, internal controls, and financial compliance activities.
- Serve as a finance thought partner and contribute to strategic initiatives across the broader finance organization.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in finance, FP&A, financial analysis, or a related field.
- Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Demonstrated experience managing financial planning and forecasting cycles.
- Strong Excel skills and experience working with financial models and large datasets.
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams and communicating financial insights to senior stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with financial planning and analytics platforms and business intelligence tools such as Tableau.
- Experience working with enterprise finance systems.
- Experience using AI-powered productivity or coding tools, such as Claude Code, to improve analytical and operational workflows.
- Previous experience in a large technology company or other complex, highly matrixed organization.
- Experience driving process standardization, automation, or finance transformation initiatives.