United States onlyWe are looking to add a senior member to our talented and dedicated Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. The Senior Financial Analyst will play a key role in our Finance function, working to enhance our planning and reporting processes, supporting decision making across the organization and contributing to a collaborative team culture focused on driving continuous improvement in both the business and the finance organization.
ABOUT YOU
- You have 7 plus years of prior experience in a strategic finance or FP&A role
- You have owned budgeting and forecasting processes, built financial analysis, and have a deep understanding of financial reporting
- You have a strong understanding of SaaS metrics and use data to drive decision making
- A self-starter with a positive attitude and ability to work in a rapidly changing environment, with strong time management skills
- You possess excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills, and a strong track record of building collaborative business relationships, including in direct support of senior leadership
- Demonstrated ability to be proactive, analytical, and use critical and strategic thinking to solve complex problems.
- Demonstrated experience thinking strategically about complex business problems, developing frameworks and providing recommendations.
- You have a curious mind and are not afraid to ask questions in order to help solve problems.
WHAT YOU WILL OWN:
- Be a key member of our fast-growing and high-performing team, partnering with leaders across the organization to help the business make informed decisions that drive growth, optimize resources, and mitigate risk.
- Prepare timely and accurate financial reporting and develop detailed analysis with valuable insights for our Executive team and Board
- Partner with the business to plan for the future by regularly reforecasting product revenue and expenses; working hand in hand with Marketing, Product and Sales to understand opportunities to drive top line success
- Modeling scenarios with risk tolerance and stress testing
- Support month-end close/reporting activities and variance analysis, becoming an expert on the actions of the organization and how they impact financial results
- Evaluate new opportunities from a finance perspective and provide recommendations to leadership based on ROI, payback, and strategic value
- Provide financial foresight and heightened transparency
WHAT YOU WILL ASSIST WITH:
- Create, and analyze company KPIs, actual performance to budget, forecasts or benchmarks and provide valuable insights to variances, trends or areas for improvement.
- Present information in a clear, concise and meaningful way to tell a compelling story to financial and non-financial stakeholders
- Complete ad-hoc reporting and analytical support for finance and business teams.
- Develop, monitor, and drive deeper understanding of our KPIs across the organization and identify opportunities to improve existing reporting processes and key metrics tracking
- Participate in strategic conversations of the long-term strategy of the company, including long range plan initiatives
- Create scenario plans to help stakeholders prepare for and respond to potential future events.
WITHIN 1 MONTH, YOU’LL:
- Complete your new hire orientation where you’ll learn about the Posit, R and Python community with millions of users of our Open Source Software.
- Learn about our software and the skills necessary to set you up for success.
- Begin 1:1s with your manager, regularly meet with the Posit sales team, and meet with Posit Executives.
- Understand the financials of the company through a review of existing reporting and presentations.
- Introduce yourself to your business partners and begin to build cross functional partnerships.
- Become proficient with the reporting and forecasting software including when and how to make updates along with validations.
WITHIN 3 MONTHS, YOU’LL:
- Prepare and present financial reporting, understanding variances to expectations
- Gain deep understanding of the GTM functions of the business, providing analytical support for business decisions
- Meet regularly with your peers, manager and business partners to support decisions being made across the business
- Participate in our monthly forecast process and long term strategic conversations
WITHIN 6 MONTHS, YOU’LL:
- Suggest and implement process and system improvements to make reporting and modeling more efficient and robust
- Own the monthly, quarterly and annual forecast for GTM functions, leveraging cross-functional partnerships with Marketing, Sales and Data Science to analyze business performance and quantify impacts to projections
- Serve as the direct business partner to Marketing and Product and collaborate closely with Sales to uncover key trends and advise on decisions
- Improve and own the monthly business performance reporting to help identify areas where the business should double-down and inform projections
- Navigate and execute most aspects of your role independently, providing all deliverables with urgency and reaching out when help is needed
WITHIN 12 MONTHS, YOU’LL:
- Be seen as a trusted business-advisor and Posit expert, becoming the person people across the company reach out to for perspective and analysis
- Consistently deliver timely and accurate reporting and analysis, regularly thinking of audience needs and how to best support
- Be a leader on the Finance team, and assist in training, onboarding and motivating new team members.
Working at Posit:
- We welcome all talented colleagues and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all its forms.
- We prioritize giving ourselves “focus time” to get deep work done. We minimize meetings and attempt to operate asynchronously.
- We are a learning organization and take mentorship and career growth seriously. We hope to learn from you and we anticipate that you will also deepen your skills, influence, and leadership as a result of working at Posit.
- We operate under a unique sustainable business model: We have over 50% of our engineering dedicated to creating free and open source software. We are profitable and we plan to be around decades from now.
- Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and a Certified B Corporation®, which means our open-source mission is codified into our charter. As a result, our corporate decisions balance the community's interests, customers, employees, and shareholders. Hear more about why we think this matters here.
Notable:
We offer competitive compensation with extensive human-first, people-focused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial well-being.
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums are covered for employees and their families! Fertility and gender-affirming healthcare is included in all of our plans.
- Supplemental mental health and wellness benefits are available via Ginger even if you don’t opt in to our insurance plans, including Ginger for teen family members.
- Posit's gender-neutral paid parental leave policy covers all new parents, including foster and adoptive parents.
- All full-time employees are eligible for 401k enrollment starting on day one.
- After six months of employment, Posit provides a substantial yearly match to employee 401K contributions.
- An annual profit-sharing bonus for employees recognizes our team’s contributions to company performance across the year.
- We are a 100% distributed team. You are also welcome to come into our Boston office.
- We offer a $400 monthly reimbursement for coworking space rental if you prefer to work away from home.
- Our Lifestyle Savings Account offers an initial deposit of $1800 and then an additional quarterly stipend of $375 to cover the costs of professional development, wellness, financial health, charitable giving, and remote work support.
- We provide a flexible environment with a generous vacation policy that encourages a minimum of four weeks PTO per year plus 13 paid company holidays.
Are you excited about this role but not sure if your experience aligns with every qualification in the job description? That’s okay. We know multiple perspectives are essential for a thriving organization and we'd still love to hear from you!
Posit is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants of different backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.
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