Financial Analyst, Product Finance

About the role

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more. We are looking for an analytical, intellectually curious FP&A Analyst to join our Revenue & Product Finance team. This role sits at the intersection of financial modeling, product economics, and strategic insight. You will own take rate and revenue analytics, build models that explain how our products generate revenue, and support high-visibility exec-facing deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Own take rate and revenue modeling: build, maintain, and continuously improve financial models that capture how our platform generates revenue across products and client segments.
• Develop a deep understanding of product mechanics — how pricing, volume, auction dynamics, and platform features drive take rate — and incorporate that knowledge into forecasts.
• Perform variance analysis on actuals vs. plan/forecast; clearly communicate drivers of outperformance or shortfall to finance and business partners.
• Support the monthly close process by producing revenue reports, commentary, and trend analysis for senior leadership.
• Build financial models for new products, pricing initiatives, and partnerships, including scenario analysis and sensitivity tables.
• Contribute to exec-ready materials including quarterly business reviews, board decks, and investor-facing content.
• Partner with product, data science, and business intelligence teams to ensure financial models are grounded in accurate, up-to-date data.
• Take on ad hoc special projects — from competitive benchmarking to pricing strategy support to M&A due diligence — as the business evolves.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in FP&A, investment banking, consulting, or a related analytical finance role.
• Strong financial modeling skills — you build clean, well-structured models from scratch and can explain every assumption.
• Demonstrated ability to understand complex product or business mechanics and translate them into quantitative models.
• Proficiency in Excel; experience with SQL or BI tools (Tableau, Looker, etc.) a strong plus.
• Proficiency leveraging AI tools like Claude to accelerate financial analysis, modeling, and reporting workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication — you can distill complex analysis into a clear executive narrative.
• High intellectual curiosity: you ask why, dig into data, and aren't satisfied with surface-level answers.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.

Nice to Have

• Experience in adtech, programmatic advertising, or marketplace/platform businesses.
• Familiarity with take rate economics, net/gross revenue distinctions, or auction-based pricing models.
• Experience with Python or other scripting tools for financial analysis.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $64,100—$117,500 USD.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
• Retirement benefits such as a 401k plan with company match.
• Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance.
• Well-being benefits, reimbursement for certain tuition expenses.
• Parental leave, sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked.
• Vacation time for full-time employees: up to 120 hours through the first year and 160 hours thereafter.
• Around 13 paid holidays per year.
• Eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, including an Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a discount.
• Variable compensation-based incentives and commissions (for eligible roles).