Senior Financial Analyst, R&D

Mural

1d•Remote

About The Position

We are a small and mighty team that thrives on analytical curiosity and intellectual honesty. We are dedicated to serving our business partners needs with diligence and foresight, while being independent arbiters of financial performance. We build the frameworks that help Mural navigate to financial success. You will grow our business by providing actionable insights that will help MURAL expand globally. This role is remote, however, you will need to have significant overlap with eastern and pacific time zones. Our belief is simple: the most powerful storytelling is done with numbers. Your role as a Senior Financial Analyst makes that a reality. You’re responsible for analyzing business performance to uncover trends, insights, and opportunities.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in Finance with ideally 2+ years of FP&A experience within a SaaS company.
A Bachelor’s degree in finance, statistics, economics, business or other related fields.
Experience with financial planning software (e.g. Adaptive Planning) and BI tools (e.g. Tableau).
A passion to help others make informed decisions driven by ROI and storytelling with numbers.
Ability to convey complex financial concepts to leaders across the organization.
Outstanding Excel / Google Sheets skills with the ability to manipulate large data sets.
Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).
Strong analytical capabilities.

Nice To Haves

A hyper-organized and detail-oriented professional.
An entrepreneurial spirit who thrives in fast-paced environments & adapts to change easily.
An expert project manager who can manage multiple projects at various stages simultaneously.

Responsibilities

Support financial and business stakeholders with data and insights that support business strategies, spending initiatives, ad hoc financial analysis and monthly, quarterly and annual planning.
Develop and maintain models that align with and support the product roadmap, and assess the outcomes delivered by the R&D teams.
Participate in annual planning, long-term planning, rolling forecasts and variance analysis (e.g. headcount, hosting and AI costs).
Produce KPI reporting and root cause trends in KPIs. Prepare insights for variance and key meetings.
Run small sized projects that improve our ability to make better data driven insights or make the company more efficient.
Target audience to FP&A management, functional managers and directors.
Work cross functionally with Accounting team on variance analysis.
Work cross functionally with Finance team on monthly Finance deck.
Work cross functionally with Operations team to provide unit economics analysis.
Work cross functionally with Department leaders on forecast updates from prior months results.
Provide monthly analysis of SaaS metrics and peer benchmarking.
Ad-hoc analysis as required.