Sr. Financial Analyst, Expense FP&A

LiveRamp; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Paid holidays

Work from home options

Comprehensive benefits package

401K matching up to 6%

Job summary

LiveRamp in Seattle seeks a Senior FP&A Analyst to partner with leadership, shaping financial strategy and driving expense forecasting and planning. You will build and maintain metrics, deliver insights, and support business partners with data-driven recommendations.

Ideal candidates bring strong Excel skills, 3+ years in FP&A, and a proactive mindset for fast-paced, SaaS environments. This role contributes to scalable forecasting and strategic decision-making at LiveRamp.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of relevant FP&A experience.
• Strong Excel and quantitative/analytical skills.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders on planning and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to provide financial insights and recommendations.
• Manage monthly and quarterly expense forecasting, annual planning, and long-range projections.
• Develop and maintain key financial metrics and reports.
• Provide analytical support to business partners to uncover opportunities.
• Lead process improvements to enhance financial reporting and forecasting capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on ad-hoc analyses.

Skills

Strong communication

Analytical skills

Excel mastery

Business partnering

Proactive / self-starter

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Economics

Tools

Excel

Anaplan

Job description

LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners.

Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.

You Will

• Act as a strategic partner to leadership teams, providing financial insights and recommendations to drive business decisions
• Manage monthly and quarterly expense forecasting, annual planning, and long-range financial projections for assigned business units
• Develop and maintain key financial metrics and reports to track performance and identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency gains
• Provide analytical support to business partners, helping to uncover areas of opportunity and influence strategic direction
• Lead process improvement initiatives to enhance financial reporting and forecasting capabilities, ensuring scalability and accuracy
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on ad-hoc projects and analyses, adding value through financial expertise

Your Team Will

Reporting to the Director of Expense FP&A, you will be a trusted member of the FP&A team of a high-energy, rapidly growing company. As a Senior FP&A Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in partnering with leadership teams to oversee expense management and forecasting. Your role is critical to driving financial decisions that impact the company’s growth and operational efficiency. Your insights will support strategic initiatives and improve financial outcomes across the organization. This role requires a proactive approach to financial analysis, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to drive process improvements.

About You

• Demonstrated TypeS personality traits: self-starter, ethical, curious, hard-working, and proactive
• Experience in FP&A business partnerships with senior leaders, preferably in a fast-paced environment. This would include (but not be limited to) headcount / workforce planning, bottoms-up planning and forecasting, and strategic expense management.
• Strong communication skills, capable of engaging effectively across various business functions and leadership levels
• Comfortable making data-driven recommendations amidst ambiguity and business assumptions
• Ability to work collaboratively and meet strict deadlines in a dynamic environment
• Proven track record of translating complex datasets into actionable insights
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field
• At least 3 years of relevant experience
• Exceptional quantitative and analytical skills, with a mastery of Excel

Preferred Skills

• Experience in financial analysis within a SaaS-based business
• Proficiency with cloud forecasting tools like Anaplan
• Advanced degree or MBA degree

The approximate annual base compensation range is $97,500 to $144,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geography, as well as internal equity among our team.

Benefits

• People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
• Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
• Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives. Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
• Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.

More About Us

LiveRamp’s mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.

LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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