Senior Financial Analyst - Strategic Finance

Fastly; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 114,200 - 137,040; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

401(k) with company match

Flexible vacation policy

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst in San Francisco to join their Strategic Finance team. This role includes building financial models, partnering with BI teams to automate reporting, and conducting exploratory data analyses. With 3–6 years of experience in FP&A, candidates must possess strong financial acumen and advanced Excel skills. The position promotes flexibility with a hybrid work model, and offers a competitive salary ranging from $114,200 to $137,040, along with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of relevant experience in FP&A or related fields.
• Strong understanding of financial statements and metrics.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel for financial modeling.

Responsibilities

• Build dynamic financial models for strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to enhance reporting processes.
• Transform manual reports into self-service dashboards.

Skills

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Data analysis

Communication

Proactive approach

Curiosity

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or related field

Tools

Netsuite

Salesforce

Excel

Looker

SQL

Job description

Overview

Anticipated Posting Close Date: 03/27/2025. Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Senior Financial Analyst - Strategic Finance

The Financial Planning & Analysis team is seeking a curious and analytical Senior Financial Analyst to join our Strategic Finance team. This role is unique: it sits at the intersection of traditional FP&A, Investor Relations and Data Analytics. While your primary focus will be financial modeling, forecasting, and business partnering, you will leverage data tools to automate reporting and uncover deeper insights. If you are a finance professional who is eager to learn and transform data into actionable high-value insights, this role is for you.

What You017ll Do

• Ad-Hoc Analysis: Build dynamic financial models to support strategic initiatives, and ad-hoc projects
• Business Partnering: Work cross-functionally to build out new processes and improve existing ones for monthly and quarterly customer metrics reporting
• Dashboards: Partner frequently with the BI team to transition manual Excel reporting into self-service dashboards (e.g., in Looker)
• Investor Relations Support: Assist with the preparation of materials for quarter-end close and earnings calls
• Data Integrity: Act as the "guardian of truth" by validating data consistency between systems (Netsuite, Salesforce, and the Data Warehouse). You will investigate variances and flag data quality issues
• Exploratory Analysis: Use large data sets to analyze customer trends, usage-based revenue patterns, and product adoption to inform your financial models
• Automation: Identify repetitive reporting tasks and work to automate them, freeing up time for higher-level strategic work

What We017re Looking For

Experience: 3–6 years of relevant experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Investment Banking

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field

Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of the three financial statements, variance analysis, and SaaS/usage-based business metrics (ARR, NRR, Churn)

Modeling Wizardry: Advanced proficiency in Excel (Index/Match, complex nested formulas) and ability to build clean, auditable financial models

• Communication: Ability to distill complex data into clear, concise summaries for senior leadership.
• Proactivity: You are a self-starter who doesn’t just report the numbers but asks "Why?" and "So what?"
• Curiosity & Aptitude: A strong willingness to learn technical data skills. You don’t need to be a data scientist, but you must be comfortable navigating ambiguity and learning new systems

We017ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

• Experience with Netsuite, Adaptive Insights, or Salesforce
• Experience with Factset and AlphaSense
• Experience with (or desire to learn) data visualization tools like Looker, Tableau, or PowerBI. Basic knowledge of SQL is a huge plus. If you don’t know it, you must be excited to learn it to query data independently
• Exposure to Python for data analysis
• Experience working at a high-growth technology company

Work Hours

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements

The position will be based in our San Francisco office. Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The estimated salary range for this position is $114,200 to $137,040.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2025, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.