Senior Financial Analyst

MongoDB Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A to drive planning, forecasting, and decision support for G&A. This hybrid role requires partnering with executives and leaders to evaluate initiatives, build models, and drive resource planning across the organization.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years in FP&A, strong financial modeling and communication skills, and the ability to work across multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment. Hybrid work model in US offices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business or economics.
• 3–5 years FP&A or analytical, quantitative skills.
• Proficiency in financial modeling, Google Suite, and Excel; Pigment is a plus.
• Ability to analyze data and develop actionable recommendations.
• Strong relationship-building with business partners at all levels; tech industry preferred.
• Drive for results with the ability to multitask and prioritize.
• Highly organized with rigorous attention to detail.
• Excellent written and spoken communication.

Responsibilities

• Business partnering with G&A partners to align with company objectives.
• Forecast coordination and modelling for headcount planning and optimization.
• Ad-hoc analyses and financial modeling to guide resource allocation.
• Operational effectiveness: standardize and automate reports and improve internal systems.
• Month-end close activities including headcount reconciliations and budget vs actuals.
• Collaborate with recruiting and HR on workforce planning for executives.
• Prepare schedules and analyses for planning cycles for management review.
• Analyze drivers of spend (token/AI, SaaS) and business performance.

Skills

FP&A

Financial modeling

Excel

Google Suite

Stakeholder mgmt

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s in Finance/Economics

Tools

Pigment

Job description

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) to grow our G&A FP&A team. You will be responsible for financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and partnering with the business to drive decision‑making and resource planning. The Senior Analyst is expected to make significant contributions to the success of MongoDB by working with executives and team leaders to evaluate, plan, execute, and measure strategic business initiatives.

This position requires an adaptable self-starter who is able to work comfortably and communicate clearly with stakeholders across the organization, progress tasks from start to finish, and enjoy working in a fast‑paced, challenging environment. The working model for this role is flexible.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in one of our offices for our hybrid working model.

Responsibilities:

• Business Partnering: Quickly establish positive relationships and become a key advisor for your G&A partners allowing you to build a solid understanding of business drivers and ensuring alignment with overall company objectives
• Forecast Coordination & Modelling: Build and maintain detailed financial and operating models to support your stakeholders in all aspects of their budget including headcount planning and optimization
• Analyzing: Conduct ad-hoc analyses and build financial models to guide leaders toward efficient operating strategies, resource allocation, and investments in product initiatives
• Operational Effectiveness: Improve and scale business, operational, and financial processes understood by all important partners, including standardizing and automating reports and improving how we leverage internal systems
• Perform financial month-end close activities, including headcount reconciliations, accrual reviews, and budget vs. actuals analysis and reporting
• Partner with recruiting and HR partners to drive efficiencies in workforce planning and reporting for executives and their leaders
• Operate independently to prepare schedules and relevant analysis for each planning cycle and develops clear support for management review
• Drive clarity underlying drivers of spend and business performance, in areas such as total token / AI spend and SaaS spend across the compay

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree; finance, business or economics preferred
• 3-5 years experience in FP&A, and/or analytical, critical thinking, and quantitative skills
• Proficiency in financial modeling, Google Suite, and Microsoft Excel; financial planning tools (Pigment) are a plus
• Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions, and develop actionable recommendations
• Confidence to forge strong relationships with business partners at all levels of the organization; prior business partnering experience preferred, within a tech company a plus
• Drive for results and a sense of urgency with the capacity to multitask and prioritize
• Highly organized with rigorous attention to detail
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. MongoDB’s …

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

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MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is: $0.01—$0.01 USD