Senior Associate, FP&A

Paraform; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Paraform is hiring a Senior Associate, FP&A to act as the analyst behind our marketplace levers—recruiter incentives, retainers, pricing and take rate, unit economics, and vertical P&Ls. You will run monthly budget vs.

actuals reviews and maintain the operating model with our VP Finance, becoming the analytical partner to leadership on pricing decisions. This builder role focuses on marketplace economics—take rates, recruiter supply, time-to-hire, and placement timing—to inform revenue

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, PE, or top-tier consulting, with 1–2 years building models used by an operating team.
• Expert spreadsheet modeling — three-statement, driver-based forecasts, and scenario analysis.
• Comfortable presenting numbers to executives and turning ambiguous questions into clear answers.
• High ownership, low ego, and fast; work goes straight to the exec team and board.
• Bonus: marketplace/fintech usage-based background; Series B–C fundraising; planning tools or SQL/BI experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the operating model with the VP Finance and keep drivers current (revenue, GMV, headcount, OpEx).
• Model marketplace levers (recruiter incentives/retainers, pricing, take rate, fee structures) and track outcomes.
• Own unit economics (GMV, net revenue, take rate, payouts, LTV:CAC, payback).
• Run budget vs. actuals with monthly BVAs and variance explanations for leadership.
• Build the metrics layer with RevOps/BizOps to define metrics and dashboards used weekly.
• Automate reporting with AI to reduce manual processes across the company.

Skills

FP&A experience

Financial modeling

Executive communication

Ownership mindset

Tools

Pigment

Anaplan

SQL/BI

Job description

We're hiring a Senior Associate, FP&A to be the analyst behind our marketplace levers — recruiter incentives and retainers, pricing and take rate, unit economics, and vertical P&Ls. You'll run the monthly budget vs. actuals review, maintain the operating model with our VP Finance, and be the analytical partner leadership leans on for pricing and incentive decisions. You'll report to our VP Finance and work closely with our accounting team.

This is a builder role. Marketplace economics are more interesting than a standard SaaS P&L — take rates, recruiter supply, roles posted, time-to-hire, and placement timing all drive revenue — and you'll build the analysis the company runs on.

What You'll Do

• Maintain the operating model with the VP Finance. Keep the drivers current — revenue, GMV, headcount, OpEx — and support the annual plan and quarterly reforecasts.
• Model marketplace levers. Recruiter incentives and retainers, pricing and take rate, and fee structures — build the analysis behind each decision and track what happens after it ships.
• Own unit economics. GMV, net revenue, take rate, recruiter payouts, cohort behavior, LTV:CAC, and payback — the numbers leadership makes pricing and incentive calls on.
• Run budget vs. actuals. Monthly BvA and department-level flux review with our accounting team, with clear variance explanations for leadership.
• Build the metrics layer. Partner with RevOps and BizOps to define metrics and build the dashboards leadership uses every week.
• Automate with AI. We use AI heavily across the company and expect finance to as well — recurring reporting shouldn't be manual.

What We're Looking For

• 3–5 years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, PE, or top-tier consulting, with at least 1–2 years building models an operating team actually used.
• Expert spreadsheet modeling — three-statement, driver-based forecasts, and scenario analysis.
• Comfortable presenting numbers to executives and turning an ambiguous question into a clear answer.
• High ownership, low ego, and fast. Your work goes straight to the exec team and board.
• Bonus: experience at a marketplace, fintech, or usage-based business; a Series B–C fundraise; hands-on with a planning tool (Pigment, Anaplan) or SQL/BI (Metabase, Looker).

The ideal candidate brings

• Experience in multi-sided / marketplace businesses
• Has owned analysis of a marketing subsidy or incentive program
• Has built the take-rate or pricing model at a marketplace and defended it to leadership
• Has run a monthly BvA where department leads had to explain their variances to them
• Has worked from raw transaction data (SQL or exports), not just a finance system's outputs
• Has gone through a raise on the company side: model, data room, diligence questions

About Paraform

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace, modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We connect companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.

We believe recruiting works best when human judgment is paired with AI that truly understands hiring. That's why we treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors, and build the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

Industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch hire through Paraform, and we grew revenue 8× last year. We're backed by Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, and the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.

Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world. For more on where we're headed, read our company vision.