Senior Strategic Finance Analyst

Fivetran•Denver, CO

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Fivetran is hiring a Senior Strategic Finance Analyst to own the cost and investment side of Product Finance and serve as the finance partner to Product and Customer Support. The role owns the operating expense P&L for both organizations, including headcount and hiring plans, vendor and program spend, annual planning, monthly close, and budget-versus-actual analysis. The analyst will partner with leaders on spending decisions, trade-offs, and reallocations. The role will build a portfolio-level view of product investment, including spend by product line, returns, and implications for roadmap funding. It will incorporate cost of revenue and product unit economics to help assess product margins and investment priorities. The analyst will also build cost-to-serve analytics, including support costs by account and segment and the economics of deflection and AI-assisted support. The position works closely with Product Managers, Support and Engineering leaders, Pricing, Corporate FP&A, and Accounting, with regular exposure to senior leadership as the company scales toward public company readiness. This is a full-time, hybrid position based in Fivetran’s Denver, Colorado office, with two in-office days each week.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, product finance, investment banking, or consulting.
Experience owning a model or forecast that others relied on.
Experience owning an operating expense budget or partnering with a non-finance organization on its spending.
Strong modeling skills across driver-based revenue forecasts, operating expenses, and headcount models.
Working knowledge of software and subscription economics, including ARR, NRR, ARPA, expansion, and gross margin.
Comfort working directly with large and complex datasets.
Ability to turn analysis into clear recommendations and present to Product, Support, and senior leadership.
Interest in how software is built and what it costs to run.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a usage-based business.
SQL proficiency.
Product or Engineering finance partnership at a software, data infrastructure, or developer tools company.
Hands-on product margin, cost of revenue, or cost-to-serve analysis.
Experience supporting Customer Support, Services, or another cost-to-serve organization.
Experience with usage-based pricing, packaging, or monetization modeling.
Experience with planning and BI tools such as Pigment, Looker, Tableau, or Sigma.
Experience with lightweight automation in Python or SQL.
Experience through a period of rapid scaling or IPO preparation.

Responsibilities

Serve as the finance business partner to Product and Customer Support leadership, owning budgets and advising on spending decisions, risks, trade-offs, and reallocation opportunities.
Own the annual operating plan for Product and Customer Support, including headcount and hiring plans, vendor and program spend, and quarterly reforecasts.
Own monthly close, accruals, and variance analysis, providing budget-versus-actual driver explanations and forward-looking implications.
Build a portfolio view of product investment, including spending by product line, returns, and implications for roadmap funding and resource allocation.
Incorporate cost of revenue and product unit economics into product investment analysis, working with teams that own underlying cost data.
Build cost-to-serve analytics, including support costs by account and segment and the economics of deflection and AI-assisted support.
Build business cases for new product investments and major roadmap decisions, including retiring or consolidating products.
Provide Pricing with unit economics to inform packaging and monetization changes.
Co-own Product Monthly and Quarterly Financial Reviews with the product top-line lead, presenting cost and performance together.
Improve finance processes through better data models, less manual assembly, and the use of AI in recurring analysis.