Senior FP&A Analyst, Sales

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values.

The FP&A team partners with executive team members across the company to provide timely, fact-based, data-driven decision support to help drive critical decisions. The team drives annual planning, owns the operating plan and long-term financial model, internal financial reporting, and financial and analytical tools to make GitLab predictable.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you'll support the global Sales team. This role will work closely with Sales Leadership and Revenue Operations as a strategic advisor to help drive our Sales organization's long-term strategic planning and resource allocation.

What You’ll Do

• Business Partnership: Influence cross-functional teams regularly. Build and manage holistic relationships with select partners.
• Financial Modeling: Build, maintain and improve financial models to plan, measure and forecast the business. Models are easily audited and used by others for areas of high complexity.
• Planning and Financial Analysis: Drive financial processes with minimal guidance.
• Data Analysis: Translate analysis into clear data-driven storylines and insights.
• Project Management: Run medium-sized projects that improve our ability to make better data driven insights.
• Communication: Effectively communicate with CFO, CFO staff and functional EVPs.
• Autonomy: Execute with limited supervision from senior members of the team.
• Responsibilities Extension: Extends the FP&A Analyst responsibilities.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience: 5-7 years of experience in a Finance role, ideally with enterprise SaaS software model.
• Sales Experience: Experience owning a business function as a finance business partner, ideally within Sales.
• Business Acumen: Be able to understand the business at a level of EVP priorities.
• Education: BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics or relevant degree.
• Financial Modeling: Be able to understand and update financial models that follow industry best practices. Expertise in Google sheets (we do not use Excel for modeling purposes).
• Business Partnership: Consistent track record of using quantitative analysis to impact key business decisions.
• Data Analysis: A passion for understanding business questions and making data-driven insights. Excellent analytical skills. SQL experience preferred.
• Detail Orientation: Ability to work through complex datasets or problems independently and build an understanding for a solution across multiple data sources.
• Communication: Ability to present financial data concisely using detailed reports and charts and through written and oral communication.
• Systems: Hands-on experience with financial and visualization software. NetSuite, Tableau and Adaptive Planning a plus.
• Learning & Adaptation: Ability to learn and use GitLab.
• Values Alignment: Alignment to our company values, and working in accordance to those.

Application Instructions

• Not specified in the provided text. (Please refer to GitLab's career website for application instructions.)

Company Information

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values.