Senior Financial Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Create, sustain, and enhance comprehensive topline revenue models that incorporate essential business and commercial drivers.

• Generate revenue forecasts for monthly, quarterly, and annual planning cycles.

• Collaborate with Sales and business leaders to gain insights into pipeline, bookings, customer activities, pricing, renewals, and other revenue influences.

• Conduct actual-to-budget and actual-to-forecast analyses, providing explanations for significant revenue variances.

• Create scenario and sensitivity analyses to aid management decision-making and enhance forecast precision.

• Take ownership of and maintain operating expense and cost forecasts across various departments and cost centers.

• Collaborate with functional leaders on hiring strategies, vendor expenses, discretionary costs, and other cost factors.

• Track spending against budget and forecast, identify risks and opportunities, and propose corrective measures.

• Assist Finance and HR with headcount and compensation forecasting.

• Generate reports on cost trends and business drivers.

• Aid in the annual budgeting process, periodic reforecasting, and long-term planning initiatives.

• Compile monthly and quarterly financial analyses for senior management review.

• Develop KPI reports linking operational performance to financial results.

• Provide variance analyses covering revenue, operating expenses, EBITDA, headcount, and other financial metrics.

• Assist with ad hoc financial analyses and business cases to support strategic and operational decisions.

• Enhance FP&A processes across ERP, planning, CRM, BI, and reporting platforms.

• Improve automation and integration of financial and operational planning data.

• Minimize manual processes and bolster data integrity and reporting controls.

• Help develop commission structures and forecast commission expenses.

• Validate commission-related data and calculations in collaboration with Sales Operations, Finance, and HR.

• Establish scalable commission calculation and reporting processes and controls.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–10 years of advanced experience in FP&A, corporate finance, financial analysis, or a related field.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.

• In-depth knowledge of financial statements and the connections among the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.

• Proven experience in developing complex revenue and cost forecasting models.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the capability to create driver-based financial models from scratch.

• Strong aptitude for financial systems and experience working with large datasets from various sources.

• Familiarity with ERP, planning, CRM, and/or BI tools.

• Excellent business partnering skills with the ability to convey complex financial information in a clear and concise manner.

• Detail-oriented, commercially savvy, and capable of functioning effectively in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities.

• Preferred: Experience within a software, SaaS, technology, or recurring-revenue business.

• Preferred: Background in sales commissions, compensation planning, or commission administration.

• Preferred: Familiarity with NetSuite and/or Salesforce.

• Preferred: Experience in implementing or enhancing FP&A or planning systems.

• Preferred: Understanding of recurring revenue metrics and commercial KPIs.

• Preferred: Experience in a private equity-backed or similarly performance-driven environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Comprehensive health insurance plans.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work hours and potential for remote work.

• Collaborative and innovative work environment.