Senior Financial Analyst
Job Description
Think Bigger. Build Smarter. Create Great Software.
Quality isn’t just a goal. It’s the whole point.
Our customers are under a lot of pressure to deliver great software. But to compress lifecycles, add features, and compete in a world where ‘every company is now a software company’ is hard. And one mistake can mean their reputation, even future. That’s why it’s our mission to help. At any part of their software development lifecycle (SDLC), we provide the tools and discipline to focus on quality while streamlining their processes. So our customers can create and deploy software that works as designed – especially when it’s needed most. And we’re looking for people to join us.
About the position
We’re seeking a Senior Financial Analyst who will partner with the global R&D organization to develop and track annual budgets, contribute to quarterly board reporting, and provide data-driven insights to support strategic decision making. Reporting directly to the Sr. Director of FP&A, the Senior Financial Analyst will be a critical business partner to R&D leadership, Corporate FP&A, and Accounting. This is a high-impact role that will offer substantial senior leadership exposure and the opportunity to impact strategic decision making in a hyper-growth environment at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for providing data-driven insights to inform strategic, financial, and operational decision-making across the Product Development organization
- Support strategic decision-making through analysis, with a focus on financial planning and business partnering to distill key financial metrics into actionable insights cross-functionally
- Responsible for creating the annual budgets and quarterly expense forecasts for the global R&D organization
- Work collaboratively with budget owners to understand investment strategies
- Analyze monthly expense results and concisely communicate insights to R&D leadership and Corporate FP&A
- Work collaboratively with the accounting team to provide support during month-end close cycles to ensure alignment of analytics and reporting against budget and forecast scenarios
- Develop sustainable and rigorous processes for ongoing financial reporting and review
- Create and maintain headcount models to manage global R&D organization with dynamic cost structures in a fast-paced environment
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of experience in financial planning and analysis
- BA/BS in Finance or related field required
- Expert Excel skills; extensive experience building financial models and analyzing large data sets
- Excellent communication skills; ability to distill complex analyses into structured outputs and present to all levels of management
- Effective project and process management skills; highly organized, independent, and self-motivated
- SaaS industry experience is advantageous
- Prior experience with Planful or other EPM tool is a plus
- Ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast paced, high demand, results oriented environment
About SmartBear
At SmartBear, we focus on your one priority that never changes: quality. We know delivering quality software over and over is complicated. So our tools are built to streamline your process while seamlessly working with the products you use – and will use. Whether it’s TestComplete, Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, Zephyr, or one of our other tools, we span from test automation, API lifecycle, collaboration, performance testing, test management, and more. Whichever you need, they’re easy to try, easy to buy, and easy to integrate. We’re used by 15 million developers, testers, and operations engineers at 24,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft. Wherever you’re going, we’ll help you get there. Learn more at smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.
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Date Posted
09/22/2022
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