Senior FP & A Analyst
SquareTrade · San Francisco, CA · 5 days ago
HybridFinance$130k–$150k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Senior FP & A analyst, serves as a strategic analytical partner to leaders across the organization, leveraging advanced financial, operational, and analytical expertise to drive business performance and decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis activities for revenue, operating expenses, and key business drivers.
- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve sophisticated financial, operational, and predictive models that support strategic planning, investment decisions, pricing analyses, and business forecasting.
- Perform advanced analysis of financial and operational data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and drivers of business performance.
- Drive variance analysis and root-cause investigations, providing actionable recommendations to improve business outcomes and forecast accuracy.
- Partner with leaders across functions to evaluate initiatives, build business cases, assess financial impacts, and support strategic decision-making.
- Design and enhance reporting frameworks, dashboards, performance metrics, and business intelligence solutions that improve visibility into business performance.
- Advance the organization's forecasting capabilities by improving methodologies, assumptions, predictive modeling approaches, and data integration practices.
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting automation, analytical efficiency, data governance, and data quality through process enhancements and technology solutions.
- Lead complex cross-functional projects involving financial planning, business analytics, operational performance, and process optimization.
- Develop innovative analytical methodologies that improve the organization's understanding of historical performance and future business outcomes.
- Deliver executive-ready analyses, recommendations, and presentations that translate complex quantitative findings into actionable business insights.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in financial analytics, forecasting, and business intelligence while mentoring less experienced analysts and contributing to best practices across the function.
- Ensure the integrity, consistency, and governance of analytical models, reporting processes, forecasting methodologies, and underlying data structures.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Accounting, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
- Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years with a Master's degree; or equivalent experience.
- Advanced degree (MBA, Master's in Finance, Analytics, Economics, Statistics, Data Science, or related discipline) preferred.
- Demonstrated experience leading highly complex financial analyses, forecasting initiatives, business performance assessments, and strategic planning activities.
- Advanced expertise in financial modeling, scenario planning, predictive analytics, business case development, and data-driven decision support.
- Strong forecasting capabilities, including the ability to leverage financial and operational drivers to improve projection accuracy, identify risks, and inform strategic decisions.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required, including complex modeling and data analysis techniques.
- Advanced experience with large datasets and analytical tools such as SQL, Power BI, Tableau.
- Proven ability to influence leaders and stakeholders through analytical insights, business acumen, and effective communication.
- Strong executive communication, data storytelling, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution in a fast-paced environment.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple complex priorities simultaneously.