Senior Financial Analyst - Strategic Finance

Fastly • San Francisco, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub. We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us. Posting Open Date: 01/07/2025 Anticipated Posting Close Date: 03/27/2025 Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants. Senior Financial Analyst - Strategic Finance The Financial Planning & Analysis team is seeking a curious and analytical Senior Financial Analyst to join our Strategic Finance team. This role is unique: it sits at the intersection of traditional FP&A, Investor Relations and Data Analytics. While your primary focus will be financial modeling, forecasting, and business partnering, you will leverage data tools to automate reporting and uncover deeper insights. If you are a finance professional who is eager to learn and transform data into actionable high-value insights, this role is for you.

Requirements

• Experience: 3–6 years of relevant experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Investment Banking
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
• Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of the three financial statements, variance analysis, and SaaS/usage-based business metrics (ARR, NRR, Churn)
• Modeling Wizardry: Advanced proficiency in Excel (Index/Match, complex nested formulas) and ability to build clean, auditable financial models
• Communication: Ability to distill complex data into clear, concise summaries for senior leadership.
• Proactivity: You are a self-starter who doesn't just report the numbers but asks "Why?" and "So what?"
• Curiosity & Aptitude: A strong willingness to learn technical data skills. You don't need to be a data scientist, but you must be comfortable navigating ambiguity and learning new systems

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Netsuite, Adaptive Insights, or Salesforce
• Experience with Factset and AlphaSense
• Experience with (or desire to learn) data visualization tools like Looker, Tableau, or PowerBI. Basic knowledge of SQL is a huge plus. If you don’t know it, you must be excited to learn it to query data independently
• Exposure to Python for data analysis
• Experience working at a high-growth technology company

Responsibilities

• Ad-Hoc Analysis: Build dynamic financial models to support strategic initiatives, and ad-hoc projects
• Business Partnering: Work cross-functionally to build out new processes and improve existing ones for monthly and quarterly customer metrics reporting
• Dashboards: Partner frequently with the BI team to transition manual Excel reporting into self-service dashboards (e.g., in Looker)
• Investor Relations Support: Assist with the preparation of materials for quarter-end close and earnings calls
• Data Integrity: Act as the "guardian of truth" by validating data consistency between systems (Netsuite, Salesforce, and the Data Warehouse). You will investigate variances and flag data quality issues
• Exploratory Analysis: Use large data sets to analyze customer trends, usage-based revenue patterns, and product adoption to inform your financial models
• Automation: Identify repetitive reporting tasks and work to automate them, freeing up time for higher-level strategic work

Benefits

• We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly.
• Curious about our offerings? We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees.
• We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• For 2025, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees