Senior Finance Analyst - Commercial Finance
VikingCloud · United States · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteAnalystFull-time
Pricing and Governance
- Maintain discount guidelines and the exception case log; partner with Sales Operations on deal desk exceptions.
- Run the weekly discount trend analysis; flag exceptions and patterns to pricing and commercial leadership.
- Support pricing on new products and offerings — from list price construction to deal economics.
- Lead the quarterly margin reassessment across the product portfolio — refreshing deal model costs based on actual cost changes, sales mix and trend (where we’re winning), and external benchmarking.
Strategic Deal and Decision Support
- Provide ad-hoc deal modeling and pricing analytics for strategic, large, or non-standard deals.
- Serve as a trusted finance partner to Sales Ops, BU leaders, Sales and Product Management on commercial decisions.
Revenue Operations
- Run the weekly revenue forecast cadence for the services business units; partner with BU leaders on risks and opportunities.
- Pressure-test forecast submissions for methodology consistency and accuracy; test assumptions with BU partners.
- Produce the monthly forecast accuracy report with full bridge analysis to explain variances.
- Build and run bookings-to-revenue conversion analytics — lag analysis, ramp curve modeling, and cross-business pattern detection.
Commercial Analytics
- Lead win-loss pricing analysis and surface insights to Sales and Product Management.
- Build pipeline conversion analytics across stages and business units.
- Ownt NRR and ARR walk reporting; build out the next layer — cohort retention, customer profitability, and product profitability.
Qualifications
- 3–5 years of progressive finance experience with demonstrated ownership of analytical or process work.
- Advanced Excel — comfortable building models from scratch and working with large datasets.
- Track record of building or improving processes, not just executing existing ones.
- Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting to senior leadership.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to operate independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a rotational finance development program (FMP / FDP / FLDP-type), Big 4 or Top 10 accounting firm transaction services or financial due diligence, strategy consulting, or commercial finance at a recurring-revenue technology or services company.
- Experience in commercial finance, FP&A, or revenue operations at a recurring-revenue, SaaS, MSSP, or managed services company.
- Familiarity with pricing analytics, discount governance, or deal desk processes.
- Power BI exposure and ability to translate Excel models into scalable reporting.
- Experience with Salesforce, SAP, Sage, NetSuite, or comparable ERP and CRM systems.
- B2B technology, cybersecurity, or managed services industry background.