Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate Finance

ServiceNow • Santa Clara, CA

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About The Position

This role sits at the center of ServiceNow’s multi-year planning process, connecting strategy, operating plans, financial performance, and investment decisions to provide a clear view of the company’s long-term outlook. The Senior Financial Analyst owns the integrated long-range financial model and leads the annual long-range planning process, linking the model to the operating plan and quarterly forecasts. The role evaluates investment proposals and operating tradeoffs, produces executive-ready recommendations, aligns planning approaches across Finance teams, and improves planning through automation, standardization, and AI-enabled workflows.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, equity research, or management consulting.
• Strong modeling skills across integrated multi-year models, driver-based forecasts, and scenario analyses.
• Solid grasp of financial statements, corporate finance, and SaaS business models and metrics.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• Ability to distill complex analysis into crisp, executive-level messaging.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• High ownership, intellectual curiosity, and attention to detail.
• Experience integrating AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving, including use of tools such as Claude and Microsoft Copilot to automate recurring workflows and build analyses, models, and reporting.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with Pigment, Anaplan, or comparable planning tools.
• Experience with Power BI and/or Snowflake.

Responsibilities

• Own ServiceNow’s integrated long-range financial model, covering revenue, margin, operating expenses, headcount, cash flow, and key SaaS metrics.
• Lead the annual long-range planning process and connect it to the operating plan and quarterly forecasts.
• Evaluate investment proposals, resource allocation, and operating tradeoffs through scenario and sensitivity analysis using consistent financial frameworks.
• Translate broad strategic questions into executive-ready analyses and recommendations, identifying key drivers in large, multi-source datasets.
• Align planning assumptions, timelines, and methodologies with business unit and functional Finance teams, building cross-functional agreement without formal authority.
• Build KPI and driver-based frameworks and monitor internal performance against external benchmarks.
• Improve planning through automation, standardization, and AI-enabled workflows.

Benefits

• Health plans, including flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) Plan with company match.
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Matching donations.
• Flexible time away plan.
• Family leave programs.
• Equity, when applicable, and variable/incentive compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior