Senior Financial Analyst (Sales & Marketing)
WP Engine · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · 1 mo ago
HybridBusiness Development$88k–$121k/yrFull-time
What Is Cool About This Job
The Go-to-Market (GTM) Finance team leads decision support for company-wide pivotal initiatives, drives business insights focused on cutting-edge business issues, and delivers bookings, churn, revenue, and top-line critical metric reporting and forecasting.
This fast-paced role provides an outstanding opportunity to drive strategic analytics and decision support in a cross-functional B2B SaaS organization across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience.
Day to Day Strategic Business Partnership
- Build dynamic, long-term relationships with Executives and VP teams across the Sales, Marketing, and Revenue organizations to analyze business performance and drive strategic capital and operational resource allocation.
Financial Modeling & Planning
- Build and manage dynamic, scalable financial models and multi-year plans, developing compelling outputs that track bookings, revenue, and core SaaS metrics.
Core Metrics & ROI Analysis
- Formulate high-value analysis and deep dives into critical metrics such as LTV:CAC, sales efficiency, marketing funnel performance, and return on investment (ROI) to inform better commercial decisions.
Budgeting & Rolling Forecasts
- Lead monthly and quarter-end financial processes, driving formal budget reviews and rolling forecasts to ensure operational expenses are tightly aligned month to month and gaps vs. plan are proactively addressed.
Data Storytelling & Executive Reporting
- Prepare business cases, sensitivity analyses, and executive-ready reports or dashboards to present insights, trends, risks, and opportunities clearly to leadership and the broader business.
Expertise and Passion
- Experience: 3+ years of financial analyst experience on a Strategic Finance or FP&A team at a fast-growing company, or background in investment banking, consulting, or private equity.
- SaaS Metrics Mastery: Deep operational understanding of SaaS business models, customer acquisition funnels, and core metrics such as Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR), LTV, CAC, and sales productivity.
- Analytical Excellence: Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial modeling skills with a demonstrated ability to handle very large "raw" data sets with the highest regard for accuracy and completeness.
- Systems & Tools Accumen: Experience with financial planning and business intelligence tools such as Workday Adaptive Planning, NetSuite, Looker, or Salesforce is a significant plus.
- Strategic Thinker & Communicator: Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with an ability to distill complex financial scenarios into structured frameworks and tell a story through data.
Cultural Fit
- An analytical, creative, positive, and results-oriented problem solver who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and approaches work with a high degree of integrity and humility.
Perks & Benefits (US)
- Ownership Mindset: Company stock options for every employee.
- Health Coverage: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with choice and flexibility.
- Fertility Support: Fertility and IVF drug coverage included.
- Financial Wellness: 401(k) with a 4% company match and Company HSA contributions ($750 individual / $1,500 family).
- Peace of Mind: 100% employer-paid short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Time to Recharge: Generous PTO, 10 paid holidays, 4 company wellness days, and 1 floating holiday.
- Family and Caregiver Leave: Fully paid leave for new parents and caregivers.
- Remote Work Support: $500 one-time home office setup stipend.
- Career Growth: Ongoing education through LinkedIn Learning, Workday Learning, and our Career Growth Portal.
Target Compensation
Base Salary Range $88,000.00 - $121,000.00