Senior Financial Analyst, Strategic Finance

GitLab; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join its Strategic Finance team. This hybrid role involves developing financial models, analyzing key performance metrics, and collaborating across various teams. The ideal candidate has 2-4 years of experience in finance or consulting, with strong analytical and financial modeling skills. The position offers a remote work environment and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation

Home office support

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of Strategic Finance, Investment Banking, PE/VC/HF, or Management Consulting experience.
• Core foundational training in financial/economic theory, strategy, modeling.
• Self-starter with an ownership mentality.

Responsibilities

• Design a long-range financial model to forecast bookings.
• Develop new forecasting methodologies for bookings-related models.
• Analyze product-related KPIs and develop new analyses.

Skills

Financial modeling skills

Strategic thinking

Business acumen

Organizational skills

Job description

Overview of the role

GitLab is looking to hire a Senior Financial Analyst for its Strategic Finance team. This team is focused on strategic finance and special projects like long‑range bookings forecasting, new product launches, and pricing strategy. It also manages the forecast process for GitLab’s business cases and works on how to structure complex data across various functions and design assumptions for bookings‑related financial models. This role reports into a Director and will work closely with the CFO and various business partners on financial analyses that drive GitLab’s earnings guidance and are presented to GitLab’s C‑level executives and the Board of Directors.

This role is a hybrid between a top‑line Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Strategy & Business Operations (BizOps) role, so it will require the ability to spot opportunities and risks across GitLab’s business, develop hypotheses, pressure‑test inputs, forecast outputs and execute in‑depth analyses to translate data into insights and make recommendations to leadership based on findings. The team collaborates cross‑functionally with sales leaders, revenue operations, product, and marketing to perform financial and strategic analyses to support decision‑making and accelerate growth.

This is the perfect role for an analytical team‑player who wants to help grow new businesses from the ground up. The ideal candidate is scrappy, enjoys understanding metrics that drive the business, thrives in uncertainty and is capable of managing multiple projects at once.

What you’ll do in this role

• Design a long‑range financial model to forecast GitLab’s bookings in future fiscal years by ARR movement (new business, expansion, contraction, churn)
• Develop and design new forecasting methodologies for various bookings‑related models
• Build out business cases for new product offerings and partnerships; assist in governance with stakeholders from Finance, Product, Sales Strategy, Marketing, and Engineering
• Analyze product‑related key performance indicators and develop new analyses on the health of the business and how adoption metrics impact bookings and GitLab’s future financial performance
• Forecast GitLab’s New Business ARR and Customer Counts by geography and segment and set pipeline targets for Marketing, Sales Development Reps, Account Executives, and Partners
• Study GitLab’s competitive landscape and market opportunity and work with incubation engineering to identify emerging areas of market demand
• Analyze GitLab’s unit economics across different customer segments and geographies

We’re looking for

• Core foundational training in financial/economic theory, strategy, modeling, and running an organized process with multiple stakeholders
• 2‑4 years of Strategic Finance, Investment Banking, PE/VC/HF, or Management Consulting experience
• A strategic thinker with broad business acumen and a passion for software/SaaS
• Self‑starter with an ownership mentality who thrives in ambiguity and delivers insights to executives in a thoughtful and persuasive manner
• Financial modeling skills with the ability to distill complex analyses into structured outputs

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 Fund
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Salary

United States Salary Range: $90,700 – $194,400 USD (this range is for residents of the United States only and does not include bonuses, equity, or benefits. Sales roles may be eligible for incentive pay up to 100% of the offered base salary.)

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