Senior Strategic Finance Associate - GTM

Mixpanel•New York, NY

1d•$160,500 - $217,500•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a hybrid role based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Mixpanel is seeking a high-impact Strategic Finance Lead to serve as a domain owner within our Financial Planning and Analysis team. This role is a trusted advisor to functional leaders across the business, owning the end-to-end financial planning process for a major domain and driving the analytical rigor that shapes leadership decisions. A successful candidate will bring deep FP&A expertise, strong business partnership instincts, and the ability to design scalable planning processes—not just execute within them.

Requirements

5–8 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience, ideally in high-growth SaaS; demonstrated ownership of a planning domain end-to-end
Proven ability to design planning processes and frameworks — not just operate within them — and to influence decisions across teams without direct authority
Expert-level financial modeling skills; fluent in SaaS unit economics, driver-based forecasting, 3-statement modeling, and scenario/sensitivity analysis
Deep expertise across GTM; experience partnering with senior functional leaders on budget strategy and investment decisions
Strong SQL skills and experience working with BI tools, FP&A platforms, and ERP systems; comfortable specifying data needs and improving data quality upstream
Excellent communication skills — can distill complex financial analysis into crisp narratives tailored to exec audiences
BS/BA in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or related field

Nice To Haves

MBA or CFA a plus

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end financial planning process for a major domain GTM — from brief to delivery — setting quality standards and accountability mechanisms that others follow.
Define the 6–12 month financial strategy for your domain, validating assumptions with business partners and translating strategy into financial outcomes and leading indicators.
Build business cases for major investments with clear assumptions, risk quantification, and second-order effects — giving leadership the analytical foundation to make high-confidence decisions.
Design and improve planning processes, tooling, and data definitions that reduce rework across teams and raise the quality of financial outputs org-wide.
Lead cross-functional analyses with clear milestones and owners, resolving forecast disagreements with principled rationale and crisp financial narratives tailored to each audience.
Partner with functional budget owners to ensure data quality, metric consistency, and alignment on assumptions — acting as a cultural anchor for data-driven decision-making.