Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate Finance

ServiceNow•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate Finance 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 analyst owns ServiceNow’s integrated long-range financial model—including revenue, margin, operating expenses, headcount, cash flow, and key SaaS metrics—and leads the annual long-range planning process tied to the operating plan and quarterly forecasts. The role evaluates investment proposals, resource allocation, and operating tradeoffs through scenario and sensitivity analysis, and develops executive-ready analysis and recommendations from complex, multi-source data. It also aligns planning assumptions, timelines, and methodologies with business-unit and functional Finance teams, and advances planning through KPI and driver-based frameworks, benchmarking, automation, standardization, and AI-enabled workflows.

Requirements

Experience integrating AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving, including tools such as Claude and Microsoft Copilot to automate recurring workflows and build analyses, models, and reporting.
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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Own the integrated long-range financial model, including 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 using scenario and sensitivity analysis within consistent financial frameworks.
Translate broad strategic questions into executive-ready analyses and recommendations with minimal direction, 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.