Job title: Financial Analyst – FP&A II
Location:  Palo Alto, CA
Duration:  6 Months
Work mode: Hybrid 

The Senior Financial Analyst will be a key member of the Go-To-Market Finance team. Reporting to Senior Manager Finance, they will work on Commissions forecast, Headcount Management, and support key deliverables like annual planning, business reporting, accruals, BvA analysis, monthly/quarterly financial reporting and ad hoc analysis of the business.

Responsibilities

• Own Sales headcount management and collaborate with Sales Ops and Recruiting to maintain accurate source of truth for actuals & forecasts.

• Construct monthly and quarterly review of metrics like

  • Bookings by Product / team

  • Expense by type / team

  • Pipeline generation, conversion trends, risks

  • Commission attainment analysis

  • Productivity analysis

  • Tracking KPIs for Marketing, Channel, SDR orgs that support Americas Sales

• Work on end-to-end Commissions Cash and Opex forecast and BvA

• Provide ad hoc reporting and analysis for senior management as needed to review and improve business and financial performance

Essential Skills & Experience

• Excellent attention to detail

• 3-5 years work experience in FP&A department

• A Bachelor's degree

• Advanced Excel & Google Sheets skills

• Excellent analytical and written communication skills

• Ability to work well in cross-functional teams and build strong working relationship with key partners

• Demonstrated abilities to prioritize and manage multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment to meet deadlines with efficiency and accuracy

It is helpful, but not required to have

• Experience with Adaptive Insights, NetSuite, Salesforce, Tableau, Workday, Coupa

• Prior experience managing headcount and conducting BvA calls (Budget vs Actual)

• Experience with sales bookings plan, expense plan, sales headcount ratios