Senior Financial Analyst

Payscale, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company culture

401(k) employer match

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Payscale is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join its FP&A group and help drive the financial planning and analysis for a high-growth SaaS company. You will work in a remote-first environment with exposure to multiple business partners and leadership across the organization.

You will build forecasting models, analyze ARR, bookings, and revenue drivers, and leverage AI tools to automate tasks and improve workflows. The role emphasizes rigor, accountability, and strategic business partnering.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of financial analysis experience in a SaaS/tech or high-intensity environment.
• Strong Excel skills; GAAP and FP&A knowledge beneficial.
• Proven ability to forecast, analyze ARR, bookings, and revenue drivers across segments.
• Experience with GTM FP&A reporting and analytics in a SaaS environment.

Responsibilities

• Build best-in-class financial operations, data accuracy, forecasting, and actionable analyses.
• Leverage AI to automate tasks, streamline reporting, and accelerate workflows.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to understand trends and influence business directions.
• Lead monthly close for your area and communicate results to peers and stakeholders.
• Develop and execute financial strategies aligned with growth objectives.

Skills

Analytical

Communication

Attention to detail

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics

Tools

Adaptive Insights

Netsuite

Salesforce

Tableau

Snowflake

Job description

About Payscale

Payscale is the pioneer of compensation intelligence, helping organizations make smarter pay decisions that drive business performance. For more than 20 years, Payscale has combined trusted market data with AI-powered technology to deliver actionable insights that turn pay from a cost into a catalyst for growth. The Payscale Intelligence Cloud portfolio of solutions — Ascent, JobNav, and Paycycle — empower top companies and businesses like Cintas, Leidos, Chipotle, Ohio State University, and TJX Companies.

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Job Summary

Payscale is looking for the newest member of its Finance team. We are a $200m ARR, highly profitable, SaaS company that needs a smart, motivated, rigorous, and diligent individual to join our FP&A group. This is a role where you will be “in it” and expected to get your hands dirty every day. You’ll join a team whose leaders have public company (including IPO) experience, who themselves report to a CFO that came up through the ranks of FP&A. Meaning that, the team knows what great looks like, and the bar will be high. We are looking for someone with thick skin who can get things done. If you don’t possess a sense of urgency, drive, and just-get-it-done-ness, this is the wrong role for you. If you are looking for a great environment to 1) learn (or learn more) about a SaaS business, 2) be put into a position where you can make a difference to the business every day, and 3) help drive a multi-hundred-million-dollar company to a successful financial exit in the next few years, then this will be a great role for you. We are looking for individuals who both know and have the capacity to learn—including a genuine interest in using AI to automate tasks, sharpen analyses, and drive efficiency across how we work. You’ll get exposure to a wide range of FP&A projects and partner cross-functionally with teams throughout the business.

You will be expected to interview, both technically and for fit, and your references will be checked. While you can be anywhere in the States, please note that the FP&A leadership is located on the West Coast of the United States. If you have read this far and believe that you have the right combination of attitude, aptitude, drive, and integrity, then let’s talk. And here’s the great thing about this role: you’ll be given exposure and responsibilities commensurate with how good your work product is, not necessarily how senior you are. What that means is that if you produce high quality materials and analyses, you’ll get to present them and participate in the decisions made around them.

Who You Are:

• You are an inquisitive individual and like to understand how things work.

• AI-forward: you are genuinely interested in AI and eager to use it to automate manual tasks, improve workflows, and realize efficiencies in how FP&A work gets done.

• You have a strong bias towards building (and rebuilding) things instead of simply maintaining existing processes. When you do run processes, you’re always thinking about how to make them better.

• You like to dive into the data, run analyses, and then help make recommendations to others on how we can improve.

• You’re adept at building relationships across the organization, helping translate what the numbers mean to others and what we should do about it.

What You'll Do:

As a Senior Financial Analyst, your day-to-day responsibilities may include:

• Assist us in building best-in-class financial operations, data accuracy, forecasting capabilities, and actionable analyses

• Leverage AI to automate and accelerate: use AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, streamline reporting and workflows, and free up time for higher-value analysis

• Embrace our culture of rigor, discipline, accuracy, consistency, and accountability, both in the FP&A org and across the entire business

• Work with your teammates, peers, and partners in the business to understand the underlying trends and metrics driving our business and develop ways to influence the direction we are heading

• Engage in real, robust business partnering to help drive efficiencies, best practices, and optimal risk taking across the business

• Drive operational improvements throughout all aspects of the business, across all three financial statements

• Learn our financial reporting tool (Adaptive Insights) and use it in your day-to-day workflows

• Ad-hoc scenario analysis that drives actionable business changes.

• Lead your portion of the monthly close process; investigate and resolve issues and then communicate to your peers and partners

• Help develop and execute financial strategies that align with the company's growth objectives

What We're Looking For:

• 4+ years of financial analysis experience or a related field. Multiple years of experience in a relevant environment is more important than any specific amount of time. Relevant experience means SaaS/tech, PE or VC backed, and a high intensity environment. Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. We do want to see steady progression in your career.

• Experience in a SaaS business model is a strong positive, but we are ultimately looking for talent and fit

• Demonstrated experience with go-to-market (GTM) FP&A reporting and analytics within a SaaS environment, including forecasting and analyzing ARR, bookings, pipeline, and the key drivers of revenue across segments such as new business, upsell, renewal, and churn.

• We are a Microsoft shop. Please have excellent Excel skills, or be able to get there fast

• Please be highly analytical, with a keen eye for detail and a learning mindset.

• Possession of excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial data to non-financial stakeholders.

• Be ok with working very hard, while being rewarded for it

Skills You Have:

• Technical: you are proficient in Excel and have used Adaptive Insights in the past (or some sort of FP&A planning tool)

• Accuracy: you strive for excellence and have great attention to detail.

• Time management: you understand and are flexible when we need to re-prioritize work based on the needs of the business.

Tools You’ll Use:

• Adaptive Insights

• Netsuite

• Salesforce

• Tableau

• Snowflake

Location

Payscale has an employee-centric remote-first model that provides you the flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you, while also finding time to collaborate in person for the moments that matter.

In our remote-first model, employees can work from the location that works best for them. We do not have centralized corporate offices. Employees can choose to work from home, in company-paid co-working spaces, or any combination of the two that best suits their unique needs.

If you work from home, we recommend ensuring that you can meet the following technology, equipment, and workspace requirements:

• High-Speed Internet - A stable broadband or fiber connection (satellite is highly discouraged) with a minimum speed of 100 Mbps in a dedicated workspace that has a reliable Wi‑Fi signal.

• Device for Multifactor Authentication (MFA/2FA) - smartphone, tablet, etc.

When it matters (usually no more than a few times a year), we take the time to gather for in-person events.

Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, UK, The Philippines, and Romania however we are currently unable to hire in Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii.

Benefits and Perks

All around awesome culture where together we strive to live our 5 values:

• Data informed decision making.

• Customer first. Always.

• Succeed together.

• Relentless about results. Obsessed with excellence.

• Lead the change. Shape the standard.

An open and inclusive environment where you’ll learn and grow through programs and resources like:

• Monthly company All Hands meetings

• Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs

• Access to continued learning & development opportunities

• Our commitment to a continuous feedback culture which allows us to drive performance and career growth

• A growing network of Employee Resource Groups

• Company sponsored volunteer hours

• And more!

Our more standard benefits

• Flexible paid time off, giving you the opportunity to rest, relax and recharge away from work

• 14 Paid Company Holidays, includes 2 floating holidays (you choose!)

• A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale

• Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through our medical plans

• Additional supplemental health benefits offered to you and your family

• 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents

• Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre‑tax employee allocations

• Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We embrace equal employment opportunity. Payscale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs.

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