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An overview of this role
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 will work closely with the G&A teams and report to the Director of FP&A.
What you'll do
- Business Partnership: Influences cross-functional team regularly. Begins to build and manage holistic relationships with G&A partners.
- Financial Modeling: Build, maintain and improve financial models to plan, measure and forecast the business across G&A operations. Develop integrated models that capture interdependencies between functional areas.
- Planning and Financial Analysis: Participate in annual planning, long-term planning, monthly rolling forecast and variance process.
- Project Execution: Run medium sized projects that improve our ability to make better data driven insights or make the company more efficient.
- Communication: Effectively communicate to CFO, CFO staff and functional VPs.
- Autonomy: Execute with limited supervision from senior members of the team.
What you'll bring
- 5-7 years of experience as an FP&A Analyst or in a similar finance role ideally with an enterprise SaaS software model.
- BS degree in Finance, Accounting or relevant degree. Relevant certification (e.g. CFA/CPA) is a plus.
- Business Partnership: Consistent track record of using quantitative analysis to impact key business decisions.
- Accounting Foundations: Ability to navigate through the three financial statements in detail and partner with Accounting during the monthly close process.
- Financial Modeling: Be able to understand and update financial models that follow industry best practices. Experience in Google sheets (we do not use excel for modeling purposes).
- Data Analysis: A passion for understanding business questions and making data driven insights. Excellent analytical skills.
- Detail oriented: 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: Experience with financial systems, such as Netsuite and Adaptive Insights is a plus.
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- All remote, asynchronous work environment
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and development budget
- Parental leave
- Home office support
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
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