Senior Financial Analyst

Mozilla; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

Mental health support

Paid time off & holidays

Parental leave (US/Canada)

401(k) plan with employer contribution

Professional development budget

Life/AD&D & disability insurance

Job summary

Mozilla Finance seeks a Senior Financial Analyst, Core Services to drive recurring planning, reporting, and analysis for the Core Services portfolio. You’ll forecast, reconcile actuals, track headcount and vendors, and prepare reporting for budget owners and the COO.

You’ll partner with Accounting through monthly close and help translate variances for leadership decisions. The role emphasizes improving processes with AI/automation, maintaining accuracy across a broad portfolio, and collaborating

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent.
• 5+ years FP&A with budget, forecast, close, and variance analysis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for non-finance audiences.
• Advanced spreadsheet and financial modeling skills with audit-friendly formulas.
• Experience with enterprise planning tools and BI/reporting systems.

Responsibilities

• Prepare Core Services forecast each cycle and load cost center detail in Pigment.
• Assemble monthly budget updates and highlight drivers and variances for COO.
• Partner with Accounting through monthly close and resolve coding/timing issues.
• Maintain headcount tracking and vendor spend across the portfolio.
• Develop AI/automation to streamline recurring finance processes.

Skills

AI & automation

Systems thinking

FP&A

Communication

Financial modeling

Cloud cost awareness

Close & variance analysis

Ownership & accountability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

Tools

Pigment

Adaptive

Workday

NetSuite

SQL

Python

Power Query

Job description

• Mozilla Finance is responsible for strategic resource allocation, overseeing day-to-day financial operations as we scale our mission impact with new and existing products, technology, and business models
• Core Services brings together the functions Mozilla runs on: Legal, People, Data Science, Trust & Safety / Customer Experience, Strategy, IT, Cloud Engineering & Ecosystems, and Security - teams supporting every part of the Company
• We are seeking a detail-driven Senior Financial Analyst, Core Services to execute the recurring planning, reporting, and analysis that supports this portfolio
• This role will be responsible for preparing the forecast, reconciling actuals through close, maintaining headcount and vendor tracking, and producing the reporting that reaches budget owners and the COO. This role reports to the Finance Manager, Core Services, who leads business partnership with the functional leaders, and works closely with teams across the organization
• To succeed, you will need to work accurately across a broad portfolio, translate variances into explanations a non-finance audience can act on, and balance competing cycle deadlines with outstanding attention to detail. This position requires a resourceful self-starter who takes recurring processes from start to finish and improves them along the way
• Prepare the Core Services forecast each cycle. Build and load cost center detail in Pigment, validate inputs, reconcile against the prior cycle, and document what moved along with the drivers behind it
• Assemble the monthly budget update. Prepare variance to plan, drivers, and open items for budget owners and the COO, ready for the Finance Manager to carry into leader conversations
• Partner with Accounting through monthly close. Tie out actuals, accruals, and forecast, and resolve coding and timing issues at the source rather than correcting for them downstream
• Maintain headcount tracking. Keep position-level tracking and the headcount-to-plan bridge current, coordinating with People and hiring managers on start dates and backfill assumptions
• Track vendor and cloud spend. Monitor POs, commitments, renewals, and run-rate changes across the group. Take in cloud cost information prepared by the Cloud Engineering team, carry it into Core Services and consolidated Company reporting, and review it for anomalies and initial questions
• Apply AI and automation to recurring work. Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort across the forecast, close, and reporting cycle, improving the speed and reliability of what the team produces. Experiment with tools and share what works
• Support Core Services teams day to day. Field data and reporting questions directly, escalating items that call for a partnership discussion

Benefits

• Health and wellness: Mozilla covers medical, dental and vision plan premiums at 100% for U.S. and Canadian employees. Our offerings give you the options you need to manage your health — and your family’s — the way you want.
• Mental health: Mental health is as important as our physical health. That’s why Mozilla’s health benefits include therapy and coaching sessions to make sure our people have access to the care they need.
• Time away: With all of life’s demands, time away from work to disconnect and recharge is essential. In addition to country-specific holidays (12 in the U.S. and Canada), vacation and sick time start accruing right away (specifics vary by country). Everyone also takes a pause together on quarterly all-company wellness days, plus you get to celebrate the most personal holiday of all: your birthday.
• Parental leave: While Mozilla’s parental leave policies vary globally, our U.S. and Canadian-based employees can look forward to 26 weeks of paid leave for childbearing parents and 12 weeks of paid leave for non-childbearing parents.
• Financial: Mozilla is a private company, so our compensation isn’t tied to stock options or equity plans. Instead, we offer generous, performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees to underscore that we share in our success as one team. As for retirement savings for US and Canadian employees, Mozilla contributes a percentage of your eligible base salary each year to the 401(k) Plan/RRSP (regardless of whether you contribute or not), with 100% vesting.
• Learning and development: We’re big believers in learning by doing, and we also want to invest in your education and development beyond your role. Every employee is eligible for an annual professional development budget. Mozillians can put it toward technical or management training, certifications, conferences and more.
• Help when you need it: Life is full of surprises; that’s why it’s important to be prepared. Mozilla provides Life/AD&D and Short and Long Term Disability insurance (offerings may vary by locale) to ensure that you and your family will have a safety net in place should you ever need it.
• Plus a bit more: A few other benefits include a quarterly wellbeing stipend (to use on those things just for you), an employee referral bonus, internet reimbursement if you’re remote, and a budget for office essentials to make working remotely ergonomically comfortable.

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent experienceInterest in applying AI, automation, and systems thinking to reduce manual effort in recurring finance work5+ years of work experience in business unit FP&A, corporate FP&A, strategic finance, or a comparable analytical finance role, including hands‑on work through a full budget and forecast cycle with close and variance analysisExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain a variance concisely to a non‑finance audienceAbility to work across functions, distilling detail into structured summaries that leaders can act onAdvanced spreadsheet and financial modeling skills. You care about formula cleanliness, auditability, and accuracyAre looking to build depth across a complex portfolio before moving into a lead partnership seatPositive attitude, intellectual curiosity, and ability to learn quicklyYou will likely be happy and productive in this role if you…Enough familiarity with cloud cost or FinOps concepts to interpret reporting prepared by a technical team and question what looks offGrounding in accounting fundamentals, including accruals and the monthly close cycleAre resourceful. You identify alternative solutions and resources to continue progressHave low ego and high flexibility. You approach problems with your opinion on the best solution, but can accommodate and adjust to differing viewpointsAbility to balance multiple competing priorities and cycle deadlines without loss of accuracyPossess an ownership mentality. You get things done accurately with minimal oversight, proactively flagging risks to timelinesExperience with enterprise planning tools (Pigment, Adaptive, Workday, etc.) and accounting systems (NetSuite preferred)Experience building automations or AI-assisted workflows within a Finance context — or the drive and resourcefulness to learnExperience supporting technical or G&A functions in a shared-services finance environment, where the internal team is the customerExperience with BI tools, SQL, Python, Power Query, or other data querying and programming languages