Senior Strategic Finance Analyst

Fivetran; Michigan; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fivetran is seeking a Product Finance professional to own the cost and investment lens across Product and Customer Support. You will manage the operating expense P&L, headcount budgets, vendor spend, and quarterly forecasts, partnering with Product, Support, and Engineering leadership.

You will also develop the portfolio view of product investments, unit economics, and cost-to-serve analytics to inform roadmap funding and resource allocation, with regular exposure to senior leadership as the

Qualifications

• 4+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, product finance, or consulting.
• Experience owning operating expense budgets and headcount models.
• Ability to turn analysis into clear recommendations for senior leaders.
• Strong modeling skills for driver-based revenue forecasts and OPEX headcount.

Responsibilities

• Own the operating expense P&L for Product and Customer Support organizations.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and monthly close with variance analysis.
• Build portfolio-level view of product investment and unit economics.
• Provide cost-to-serve analytics by account and segment.

Skills

FP&A

Strategic Finance

Product Finance

Budgeting

Forecasting

Data Analysis

SQL Proficiency

Modeling

Tools

Pigment

Looker

Tableau

Sigma

Python

SQL

Job description

• Product Finance covers two things: how our products perform, and what they cost to build, run, and support. This role owns the cost and investment side, as the finance partner to the Product and Customer Support organizations
• You’ll own the operating expense P&L for both organizations — headcount and hiring plans, vendor and program spend, annual planning, monthly close, and budget-vs-actuals — and work with those leaders on where to spend and what to trade off
• You’ll also build our view of product investment at the portfolio level: what we spend behind each product line, what it returns, and what that means for how the roadmap gets funded. That includes bringing cost of revenue and unit economics into the picture, so we can talk about product margin rather than just product spend. This is how we’ll decide where to invest and where to pull back
• You’ll build our cost-to-serve view as well — support cost by account and segment, and the economics of deflection and AI-assisted support
• Expect close work with Product Managers, Support and Engineering leaders, Pricing, Corporate FP&A, and Accounting, and regular exposure to senior leadership as we scale toward public company readiness
• Serve as the finance business partner to Product and Customer Support leadership — own their budgets, partner on spend decisions, and flag risks, trade-offs, and reallocation opportunities early
• Own the annual operating plan for both organizations, including headcount and hiring plans, vendor and program spend, and quarterly reforecasts
• Own monthly close, accruals, and variance analysis — budget vs. actuals with clear driver explanations and forward-looking implications
• Build the portfolio view of product investment: what we spend behind each product line, what it returns, and what that implies for roadmap funding and resource allocation
• Bring cost of revenue and product unit economics into that view, working with the teams that own the underlying cost data
• Build cost-to-serve analytics — support cost by account and segment, and the economics of deflection and AI-assisted support
• Build business cases for new product investments and major roadmap decisions, including the economics of retiring or consolidating products, and provide Pricing with the unit economics behind packaging and monetization changes
• Co-own the Product Monthly and Quarterly Financial Reviews with the product top-line lead, so cost and performance are presented together
• Improve how this work gets done — better data models, less manual assembly, and AI applied to recurring analysis

Working knowledge of software and subscription economics — ARR, NRR, ARPA, expansion, gross margin — ideally in a usage-based business4+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, product finance, investment banking, or consulting, including ownership of a model or forecast that others relied onAbility to turn analysis into a clear recommendation and present it to Product, Support, and senior leadershipExperience owning an operating expense budget, or partnering with a non-finance organization on its spendInterest in how software gets built and what it costs to runComfort working directly with large and complex datasets. SQL proficiency strongly preferredStrong modeling skills across both driver-based revenue forecasts and operating expense and headcount modelsProduct or Engineering finance partnership at a software, data infrastructure, or developer tools companyExperience supporting a Customer Support, Services, or other cost-to-serve organizationHands-on product margin, cost of revenue, or cost-to-serve analysisUsage-based pricing, packaging, or monetization modelingPlanning and BI tools (Pigment, Looker, Tableau, Sigma) and lightweight automation in Python or SQLExperience through a period of rapid scaling or IPO preparation