An overview of this role

The FP&A team partners with executive team members across the company to provide timely, fact-based, data-driven decision support to help drive critical decisions. The team drives annual planning, owns the operating plan and long-term financial model, internal financial reporting, and financial and analytical tools to make GitLab predictable.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you'll work closely with, and support, the global Sales team across multiple departments including Field Operations and Channel + Alliances.

What you'll do

• Business Partnership: Influences cross-functional team regularly. Begins to build and manage holistic relationships with select partners
• Financial Modeling: Build, maintain and improve financial models to plan, measure and forecast the business. Models are easily audited and used by overs for areas of high complexity.
• Planning and Financial Analysis: Drive financial processes with minimal guidance.
• Data Analysis: Translates analysis into clear data-driven storylines and insights
• Project Management: Run medium-sized projects that improve our ability to make better data driven insights or make the company more efficient.
• Communication: Target audience CFO, CFO staff and a functional EVP.
• Autonomy: executes with limited supervision from senior members of team.
• Extends the FP&A Analyst responsibilities.

What you'll bring

• Business Acumen: Be able to understand the business at a level to understand EVP priorities.
• Experience owning a business function as a finance business partner, ideally within sales.
• 5-7 years of experience in a finance role ideally with enterprise SaaS software model.
• BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics or relevant degree.
• Financial Modeling: Be able to understand and update financial models that follow industry best practices. Expertise in Google sheets (we do not use excel for modeling purposes).
• Business Partnership: Consistent track record of using quantitative analysis to impact key business decisions.
• Data Analysis: A passion for understanding business questions and making data driven insights. Excellent analytical skills. SQL experience preferred.
• Detail oriented: Ability to work through complex datasets or problems independently and build an understanding for a solution across multiple data sources
• Communication: Ability to present financial data concisely using detailed reports and charts and through written and oral communication.
• Systems: Hands-on experience with financial and visualization software. Netsuite, Sisense and Adaptive Planning a plus.
• Ability to learn and use GitLab.
• Alignment to our company values, and working in accordance to those.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.