Responsibilities
Lead the annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes
Administer Percona’s financial planning tool, including financial model development and ongoing maintenance
Prepare financial reporting packages including budget/forecast to actual analyses, management presentations, and SAAS metrics.
Provide insight on revenue expenses, and headcount resources to budget owners
Identify and lead initiatives to continuously improve, automate, and scale forecasting and reporting tools, processes, and methodologies
Work with budget owners to incorporate investment needs responsibly and support strategic decision making with “what if” and “scenario” analyses
Report on trends and analysis, highlighting areas of opportunity for margin improvement, business growth and increased profitability
Identify and track key performance metrics pertaining to business operations, competitors, benchmarking, etc.
Understand the drivers of each business unit/product line and support leaders with modeling efforts and analyses
Strengthen the month end close by identifying missing accruals
Partner with Accounting, Human Resources, and Revenue Operations teams to ensure seamless and cohesive reporting and analysis
Perform due diligence on financial planning tool upgrade and/or replacement
Support Controller and CFO projects and analyses as required
Your Experience
5+ years’ experience as a Senior Financial Analyst with high growth, software/tech companies
BSBA degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, or Statistics
Superior skillset using best in class EPMs (Adaptive, Anaplan, etc), ERPs (Intacct, Netsuite, etc.), and CRM (Salesforce)
Advanced to expert knowledge of Excel and Google Sheets
SaaS and/or recurring revenue model experience
Thorough understanding of software industry metrics (bookings, pipeline, ARR, MRR, retention rate, churn, CAC, LTV, etc)
Proven skills developing and validating financial models
Hands on, proactive problem-solving expertise
Excellent oral and written communications skills
Consistently meets or beats deadlines
Accustomed to quick pivots based on business needs and priorities