FP&A Analyst

About the role

Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, is a company that empowers developers and businesses with the fastest PostgreSQL platform designed for transactional, analytical, and agentic workloads. The FP&A Analyst position is a builder role for someone who excels at core FP&A work and enjoys creating structure in an evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Owning headcount planning, forecasting, and budget tracking across the business, including approved roles, hiring timing, compensation assumptions, and changes against plan.
• Maintaining a clear view of cost of goods sold and supporting recurring COGS forecasting, variance analysis, and performance reporting.
• Partnering with Marketing to monitor spend, understand changes against budget, and evaluate the financial impact of programs, campaigns, and partnerships.
• Supporting the weekly ARR forecast by gathering inputs, validating assumptions, identifying changes, and helping maintain a reliable forecasting cadence.
• Preparing recurring financial slides, executive materials, and written performance updates that explain what changed, why it changed, and what requires attention.
• Running budget-versus-actual analysis and following up with department leaders on spending changes, risks, and forecast updates.
• Supporting monthly and quarterly planning conversations with clear financial analysis and well-organized materials.
• Partnering with Accounting during the month-end close to improve the accuracy and timeliness of accruals, expense reporting, and variance explanations.
• Improving recurring FP&A processes, templates, and reporting workflows so the finance organization can operate with greater speed and consistency.
• Working directly with financial and operating data, validating inputs, identifying inconsistencies, and escalating issues that could affect business decisions.
• Using AI tools to accelerate analysis, draft initial performance narratives, identify trends, and improve recurring workflows while maintaining strong human judgment, confidentiality, and financial accuracy.
• Owning the creation of meticulous Board and executive materials, including financial slides, performance narratives, variance explanations, and supporting analysis.

Requirements

You will need strong FP&A experience, including forecasting, headcount planning, budget management, and variance analysis. You must be able to independently manage recurring financial processes and produce accurate work with limited supervision. You should be comfortable partnering directly with department leaders and asking thoughtful questions when assumptions or spending plans do not make sense. You must be able to move from financial data to a clear written explanation of business performance. You should have a strong sense of intellectual curiosity and constantly find yourself asking “why” rather than simply reporting the numbers. You should have strong spreadsheet and financial modeling skills and be comfortable working with large or imperfect datasets. You must care deeply about data integrity and will investigate a number that looks wrong rather than simply passing it along. You should be curious about how AI can improve finance workflows and have demonstrated sound judgment in applying AI tools to analytical work. You should believe that organizations are best when they’re diverse and inclusive, and you’re committed to ensuring that everything we do at Tiger Data reflects this belief.

Qualifications

Strong FP&A experience, including forecasting, headcount planning, budget management, and variance analysis.

Can independently manage recurring financial processes and produce accurate work with limited supervision.

Comfortable partnering directly with department leaders and asking thoughtful questions when assumptions or spending plans do not make sense.

Can move from financial data to a clear written explanation of business performance.

Strong sense of intellectual curiosity and constantly finds themselves asking “why” rather than simply reporting the numbers.

Strong spreadsheet and financial modeling skills and comfortable working with large or imperfect datasets.

Cares deeply about data integrity and will investigate a number that looks wrong rather than simply passing it along.

Curious about how AI can improve finance workflows and has demonstrated sound judgment in applying AI tools to analytical work.

Believes that organizations are best when they’re diverse and inclusive and committed to ensuring that everything we do at Tiger Data reflects this belief.

Skills

Strong FP&A experience, including forecasting, headcount planning, budget management, and variance analysis.

Independent management of recurring financial processes and producing accurate work with limited supervision.

Direct partnership with department leaders and thoughtful questioning of assumptions or spending plans.

Clear written explanation of business performance.

Intellectual curiosity and constant questioning of “why”.

Strong spreadsheet and financial modeling skills and ability to work with large or imperfect datasets.

Data integrity and investigation of numbers that look wrong.

Judgment in applying AI tools to analytical work.

Diversity and inclusion commitment.

Benefits

Salary range: $110,000 – $135,000 USD annually, plus bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits including health insurance and flexible/unlimited PTO.

Our commitment: We respond to every applicant. We review applications fairly and objectively, and shortlist based on relevant skills and experience. We ensure clear and timely communication throughout your candidate journey. We maintain a rigorous interview process with a high bar, designed to give you the opportunity to meet various team members you'll collaborate with across our organization.

About Tiger Data🐯 Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, sets the standard as the fastest PostgreSQL platform for modern workloads. Trusted by more than 2,000 customers across 25+ countries and powering over 3 million active databases, we enable developers and organizations to build real-time, intelligent applications at scale. Backed by $180 million from top-tier investors, Tiger Data is building the new standard for data infrastructure, built on PostgreSQL, designed for the future.

We embrace diversity, curiosity, and collaboration. Whether debating the perfect chicken nugget crunch 🍗, sharing workout routines 💪, or discussing your favorite plants 🌱 and pets 🐾, you'll find your community here.

Our Tech Stack: We don't require previous experience with our tech stack, but enthusiasm for learning is key. Our technologies include PostgreSQL, Tiger Cloud, AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, and innovative features like Hypertables, Hypercore, vector search, and real-time analytics.

Learn more at www.tigerdata.com or follow us on Twitter @TigerDatabase