Senior Financial Analyst, R&D

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: United States, Argentina

ABOUT THE TEAM

We are a small and mighty team that thrives on analytical curiosity and intellectual honesty. We are dedicated to serving our business partners needs with diligence and foresight, while being independent arbiters of financial performance. We build the frameworks that help Mural navigate to financial success.

 

YOUR MISSION

You will grow our business by providing actionable insights that will help MURAL expand globally. This role is remote, however, you will need to have significant overlap with eastern and pacific time zones. Our belief is simple: the most powerful storytelling is done with numbers. Your role as a Senior Financial Analyst makes that a reality. You’re responsible for analyzing business performance to uncover trends, insights, and opportunities.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Business Partnership: Support financial and business stakeholders with data and insights that support business strategies, spending initiatives, ad hoc financial analysis and monthly, quarterly and annual planning.

  • Financial Modeling: Develop and maintain models that align with and support the product roadmap, and assess the outcomes delivered by the R&D teams.

  • Planning and Financial Analysis: Participate in annual planning, long-term planning, rolling forecasts and variance analysis (e.g. headcount, hosting and AI costs).

  • Data Analysis: Produce KPI reporting and root cause trends in KPIs. Prepare insights for variance and key meetings.

  • Project Management: Run small sized projects that improve our ability to make better data driven insights or make the company more efficient.

  • Communication: Target audience to FP&A management, functional managers and directors.

  • Work cross functionally:

    • Accounting team on variance analysis.

    • Finance team on monthly Finance deck.

    • Operations team to provide unit economics analysis.

    • Department leaders on forecast updates from prior months results.

  • Provide monthly analysis of SaaS metrics and peer benchmarking.

  • Ad-hoc analysis as required.

 WHAT YOU’LL BRING

  • 4+ years of experience in Finance with ideally 2+ years of FP&A experience within a SaaS company.

  • A Bachelor’s degree in finance, statistics, economics, business or other related fields.

  • Experience with financial planning software (e.g. Adaptive Planning) and BI tools (e.g. Tableau).

  • A passion to help others make informed decisions driven by ROI and storytelling with numbers.

  • Ability to convey complex financial concepts to leaders across the organization.

  • Outstanding Excel / Google Sheets skills with the ability to manipulate large data sets.

  • Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).

  • Strong analytical capabilities.

Ideally you are:

  • A hyper-organized and detail-oriented professional.

  • An entrepreneurial spirit who thrives in fast-paced environments & adapts to change easily.

  • An expert project manager who can manage multiple projects at various stages simultaneously.

The base salary for this role ranges from $107,944 - $134,930 + bonus + benefits. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Equal Opportunity 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

This offer from "MURAL" has been enriched by Jobgether.com and got a 85% flex score.
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