Senior Analyst - Finance and Operations

Fastly is looking for a Sr Analyst, Finance and Operations. Reporting to the Director of Infrastructure Finance, this role will play a critical role in supporting the Infrastructure Finance and Operations team manage cost of revenue and capital expenditures in excess of $200 million annually.  You will partner with key stakeholders in FP&A, Accounting, Business/Enterprise Systems, and Network Infrastructure teams, among others, to drive key business initiatives. The right person will have a history of working with stakeholders across the organization to build trusted relationships, understanding their business, data and reporting needs in order to build and operate our infrastructure with financial discipline.

You are a great teammate and like to work in an ever-changing and dynamic landscape. You are a person who enjoys a challenge and sees it as an opportunity. More importantly you are someone who feels comfortable wearing many hats and is able to connect the dots when trying to understand the key drivers of business performance. 

What You'll Do

• Cost of Revenue Management:
  • Budgeting & Forecasting: Support Infrastructure Finance team for activities related to  budgeting and forecasting COR  - bandwidth, colocation, server depreciation/capital expenditures, managed services to enable long-term, annual, and quarterly planning
  • Reporting & Analysis: Create budget/forecast vs. actual reports to explain variances and ad-hoc analytics to better manage cost of revenue

• Gross Margin Analytics: Collaborate with Business Intelligence, Revenue Operations, Accounting, and Infrastructure teams to implement an analytics database for providing insights into gross margins by customer/product/region.
• Network Capacity Planning: Partner with the Infrastructure team to assess current and future capacity and utilization and provide financial oversight.
• Business Operating KPIs: Deriving actionable insights and recommendations to inform business decisions through application of data analysis to a variety of data sources.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in financial analysis and operations roles with a focus on financial metric reporting.
• Experience in a relevant field with demonstrated financial acumen and a track record of leveraging data for business impact
• An analytical and forward-looking thinker that can solve business challenges with a proven track record of using data to make strategic business recommendations to senior leadership that improve decision making.
• The ability to deliver high-quality work products that are accurate, timely, and insightful.
• Comfortable presenting data and providing recommendations with confidence to senior level managers, even when there is ambiguity involved.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a quantitative discipline.
• Strong fluency in Excel-GSheets/Powerpoint-GSlides coupled with effective oral/written communication.
• Excellent visualization skills, with experience using visualization software (e.g. Tableau, Looker, Power BI).
• Knowledge of databases and querying languages (e.g. MySQL, Big Query) is strongly recommended
• A positive attitude with a willingness to grow with the role/company

In accordance with applicable law, Fastly’s minimum base pay for this role if hired in Colorado is $83,000 per year. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Fastly's equity plan. Final offer amount will be at the company’s sole discretion and determined by multiple factors, including years and depth of experience and expertise, location and other business considerations. Note that this role is available to candidates outside of Colorado and different minimum compensation may apply.

Fastly is proud to deliver a strong total rewards program to our employees. This role is eligible to participate in the following benefits:

• Health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
• Medical: Cigna or Kaiser available
• Retirement benefits and employer match
• Life Insurance (Basic and Voluntary Life)
• Short & Long Term Disability with a buy-up LTD option
• Voluntary Accident & Critical Illness benefits
• Flex Spending Accounts & Mass Transit benefits
• Open Vacation Policy
• Sick Time
• Generous leave benefits (medical, maternity, paternity, and personal)
• Paid wellness days
• Employee Assistance Program
• Learning & reimbursement program stipend
• Mobile and internet allowance
• Wellness stipend
• Pet insurance

Fastly reserves the right to amend or modify for any reasons in accordance with applicable law.