Senior Finance Analyst
MathWorks
Senior Finance Analyst
- Job: 36625-TPEN
- Team: Finance and Operations
- Location: US-MA-Natick
- Salary Range: $101,200 - $156,900
Job Summary
We are seeking a strategic and analytical Senior Analyst to drive planning, forecasting, and insights that shape business decisions in a dynamic environment. This hands-on role combines advanced analytics, scenario modeling, and business partnering to influence growth strategies and optimize performance. You will have visibility across the organization and the opportunity to present findings to senior and executive leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead Planning & Forecasting: Act as a key contributor to the annual planning process, focusing on the quota and sales bookings portion of the financial model. Participate in periodic forecasting process and analyzing actual results from different perspectives to help drive sales forecasting accuracy.
- Deliver Actionable Insights: Analyze financial and non-financial metrics, including ARR, churn, CAC, LTV, customer trends, and product performance, to provide management with clear, data-driven recommendations.
- Build Advanced Models: Develop and maintain dynamic financial models for scenario planning, predictive analytics, and business optimization using tools such as Anaplan and Snowflake.
- Partner Across the Business: Collaborate with Sales Operations and other teams to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure financial models accurately reflect business drivers and company performance metrics.
- Enhance Reporting & Visualization: Create dashboards and visualizations using tools like Power BI to communicate insights effectively to senior leadership.
- Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to automate processes, improve forecasting accuracy, and enhance the efficiency of FP&A operations.
Minimum Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or equivalent experience) is required.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
- Experience with financial analysis
Additional Qualifications
- Technical Skills: Advanced Excel modeling; proficiency in FP&A platforms (such as Anaplan) experience with data visualization tools (Power BI).
- Analytical Expertise: Strong ability to interpret complex data sets and translate insights into actionable strategies.
- Communication: Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills to influence senior stakeholders.
- Mindset: Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving business environment.
Why MathWorks?
It's the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It's the opportunity to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. And it’s a commitment to doing the right thing—for each individual, our customers, and the local community. We cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.
MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,500 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.
YOU + MathWorks = Unlimited Possibilities
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