Senior Financial Analyst (FP&A)

Thumbtack; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Thumbtack is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, CCO to partner with leaders across the business and support forecasting, budgeting, and strategic cost management. You will build robust financial models, analyze variances, and help guide decisions with data-driven insights.

The role requires 6+ years in FP&A or related fields, strong Excel/G-Suite skills, and experience with US GAAP or IFRS. Graveyard PST hours flexibility is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field.
• 6+ years of FP&A, corporate finance, or management consulting experience.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills using Excel and G-Suite.
• Exposure to US GAAP or IFRS.
• Excellent problem solving and communication abilities.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Willingness to work a graveyard shift aligned with PST hours.

Responsibilities

• Drive monthly, annual forecasts and budgets for opex with variance analysis.
• Forecast and justify spending assumptions with stakeholders.
• Evaluate trade-offs and sensitivities for better decision making.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and visualization of data.
• Develop efficiency metrics to support growth and financial context.
• Build trusted relationships with key stakeholders.
• Reconcile headcount for the organization.
• Partner with business teams to develop cost management solutions.
• Support Sales in ensuring commission accuracy and alignment.

Skills

Financial modeling

Excel

G-Suite

US GAAP/IFRS

Cross-functional collaboration

Verbal & written communication

Graveyard shift PST

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or related

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

Job description

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes. Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.

About the Finance Team

The Thumbtack Finance team’s mission is to be a strategic finance partner to the business to enable better business decisions that are supported by data while building a world class finance function and to do it all with integrity.

About the role

The Senior Financial Analyst, CCO will partner with various leaders at Thumbtack to help manage and grow the business. The company is growing at a rapid pace and you will play an important role providing thought partnership and decision support to many new initiatives. This role reports to the Finance Manager of FP A.

What you’ll do

• Drive the monthly, annual forecasts and budgets for all opex spend, highlighting insightful variance analysis and implications to forecast
• Forecast accurately, not only aligning on assumptions with stakeholders, but understanding what, where, and why we spend
• Evaluate trade offs and financial sensitivities leading to better decision making and scenario planning
• Provide front line support for ad hoc financial analysis requests and inquiries, presenting and visualizing data and insights
• Develop efficiency metrics to help inform growth and set financial context
• Establish and maintain trusting relationships with all key stakeholders
• Reconcile HC for organization
• Partner closely with business partners to understand their needs and develop effective and strategic cost management solutions
• Support Sales team to ensure accuracy and alignment of commissions

In order to be successful, you must bring

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field
• 6+ years of relevant financial analysis work experience in FP A, corporate finance, or management consulting
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, using key tools within Excel and G-Suite
• Adopts a constant improvement mindset and applies towards making processes procedures more efficient
• Strong understanding of/ exposure to US GAAP or IFRS
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Proven ability to collaborate cross functionally
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with stakeholders across the organization
• Amenable to working a graveyard shift aligned with PST hours (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST)

Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, compete