Senior FP&A Analyst — Strategy, Forecasting & Automation

Instride; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with company match

Flexible vacation policy

Paid family leave

Step Forward program

Job summary

InStride is a public benefit corporation focused on empowering employees through education programs and strategic partnerships with organizations. We seek a Senior Analyst, FP&A to lead end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, partnering with leaders across sales, marketing, R&D, and operations to influence core decisions and enterprise value.

The role covers planning, close, and decision-support; you’ll own the model, tie-out, commentary, and slides for executives, board, sponsor, and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of finance experience, preferably in a high-growth technology company or consulting firm
• Experience working for a private-equity backed company, including the reporting cadence that comes with a sponsor and lenders
• Proven track record of achievement and delivering impactful results
• Strong background in financial analysis with strong problem-solving skills
• Consistent track record to distill issues into simple, structured frameworks that can be clearly communicated to key leaders and partners inside and outside of the company
• Experience partnering with leaders across sales, marketing, R&D, operations, etc.
• A curiosity and aim to thoroughly analyze issues and to come forward with clear recommendations for moving forward
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization
• Proven ability in a fast-paced environment and motivated by the challenge
• Experience working in key systems to help improve and automate the finance function (ERP, FP&A, Analytics, CRM, etc.)
• Prior experience with NetSuite, Cube and Tableau is a plus
• Hands-on use of AI tools in finance or analytical workflow is a plus — we care more about judgment in applying them than about any tool
• Ability to collaborate across teams internally and with partners e.g. with universities, corporate clients and the team

Responsibilities

• Update long-range financial forecast and partner with other teams across the organization to ensure that the modeling assumptions are reasonable and current
• Help drive the annual budgeting process for functional areas, maintaining the budget templates and scenarios that functional leaders build from
• Own headcount and contractor cost forecasting - roster-level detail, burden rates and role-by-role phasing — and reconcile it back to the plan each cycle
• Assist in the creation, consolidation and distribution of monthly reports and critical metrics to key partners
• Support the monthly financial close process and the annual financial audit as required
• Prepare the recurring YTD and full-year reporting packages requested by our external auditors, lenders and sponsor, and stand behind the tie-outs between the model, the general ledger and the reported figures
• Build and manage relationships across the business and be the POC for analytical support for assigned teams
• Build decks and presentations for executives, the board of directors, and partners/clients — including P&L commentary, revenue bridges and segment or KPI pages that hold up to line-by-line scrutiny
• Analyze vendor, cloud and other significant spend categories, separating what scales with the business from what does not, and bring cost‑efficiency opportunities forward
• Help research, select, implement, and refine processes and systems to optimize the efficiency and performance of the FP&A team
• Work in our FP&A platform (Cube) and ERP (NetSuite) to maintain scenarios, data fetches and mappings, so the plan and the actuals stay connected without manual rebuilds
• Put AI to work on the parts of the job that are repeatable — first-draft variance commentary, reconciliation checks, deck production, summarizing source documents — and apply judgment about where a human tie-out is still required before anything reaches an executive audience
• Develop an understanding of the markets, customers, and products to provide more substantial financial and analytical support to the organization
• Perform ad required ad hoc research, analysis, and reporting
• Compensation

Skills

Financial Analysis

Collaborative Problem-Solving

Systems Proficiency

AI Fluency

Presentation & Communication

Attention to Detail

Curiosity & Learning

Analytical Thinking

Adaptability

Cultural Awareness

Tools

NetSuite

Cube

Tableau

Job description

InStride is a public benefit corporation focused on empowering employees through education programs and strategic partnerships with organizations. We seek a Senior Analyst, FP&A to lead end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, partnering with leaders across sales, marketing, R&D, and operations to influence core decisions and enterprise value.

The role covers planning, close, and decision-support; you’ll own the model, tie-out, commentary, and slides for executives, board, sponsor, and