Senior Financial Analyst, Business Finance

Thumbtack • San Francisco, CA

1d • $104,600 - $159,500

About The Position

As a Senior Financial Analyst on Thumbtack’s Business Finance team, you’ll provide Product, Engineering and Design partners with financial analysis to support planning, budget management and investment decisions. Reporting to the Senior Director of Business Finance, you’ll own recurring planning and analysis work, including headcount tracking, expense forecasting and evaluating resource trade-offs. You’ll also assess technology and infrastructure spending, including costs associated with AI-powered product experiences, and help partners understand the financial implications of changes in how teams work. You’ll take questions from initial scoping through analysis to recommendation, work independently, and draw on your manager’s guidance for more complex decisions.

Business Finance partners across the company to understand performance, evaluate investments and connect day-to-day decisions to financial outcomes. Working closely with Business Analytics and Corporate FP&A, the team turns business drivers into forecasts and practical recommendations to help direct investment in people, products and technology.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in corporate FP&A, business finance or a similar finance business-partnering role.
• Experience analyzing budgets, tracking expenses or headcount, and building forecasts that connect business assumptions to financial outcomes.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills in Excel or Google Sheets, with attention to accuracy and clearly documented assumptions.
• Ability to structure moderately ambiguous questions, identify missing information, and independently gather inputs from data and stakeholders to reach a well-reasoned answer.
• Sound judgment on costs, benefits and near-term trade-offs, including knowing when to seek guidance or escalate a risk.
• Ability to explain financial drivers and recommendations clearly to non-finance partners, in writing and in person.
• Track record of building collaborative relationships, following through on commitments, and finding ways to improve business outcomes or team processes.

Responsibilities

• Own budget tracking and expense forecasts for assigned teams; partner with Corporate FP&A and business stakeholders to explain variances, flag risks and opportunities, and keep plans current.
• Track open roles, hiring assumptions and headcount allocations across teams, and model proposed changes to assess their cost and fit with existing budgets.
• Build financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate investment requests, resource allocation and changes to team structures, providing clear assumptions and practical recommendations.
• Analyze technology, infrastructure and AI usage costs, including communications platforms such as Twilio and AI token spend, to understand spending drivers and identify ways to improve efficiency and allocation.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Design and Business Analytics to gather inputs, connect operational metrics to financial outcomes, and assess the financial impact of business initiatives.
• Turn analyses into clear business reviews and recommendations, surface issues early, and improve planning processes and reporting as you learn the business.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed