Strategic Finance Lead — FP&A for SaaS Growth

Mixpanel, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, and Dental Care

Generous Vacation Policy and Holidays

Enhanced Parental Leave

401(k) benefits

Job summary

Mixpanel, Inc. is seeking a high-impact Strategic Finance Lead to own the end-to-end financial planning process for a major domain within our FP&A organization.

This hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area will partner with senior leaders to drive rigorous financial planning and scalable processes. You will shape the 6–12 month financial strategy, build robust business cases, and define metrics that guide leadership decisions across GTM and other functions.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience at a B2B SaaS company.
• Ability to design planning processes and frameworks - not just operate within them - and influence decisions across teams without direct authority.
• Expert-level financial modeling skills; fluent in SaaS unit economics, driver-based forecasting, 3-statement modeling, and scenario/sensitivity analysis.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with BI tools, FP&A platforms, and ERP systems; comfortable specifying data needs and improving data quality upstream.
• Excellent communication skills — distill complex financial analysis into crisp narratives tailored to exec audiences.

Responsibilities

• Support the end-to-end financial planning process for GTM - from brief to delivery - setting quality standards and accountability mechanisms that others follow.
• Help define the 6-12 month financial strategy for your domain, validating assumptions with business partners and translating strategy into financial outcomes and leading indicators.
• Build business cases for major investments with clear assumptions, risk quantification, and second-order effects - giving leadership the analytical foundation to make high-confidence decisions.
• Support the design and improvement of planning processes, tooling, and data definitions that reduce rework across teams and raise the quality of financial outputs org-wide.
• Support cross-functional analyses with clear milestones and owners, resolving forecast disagreements with principled rationale and crisp financial narratives tailored to each audience.
• Partner with functional budget owners to ensure data quality, metric consistency, and alignment on assumptions - acting as a cultural anchor for data-driven decision-making.

Skills

FP&A experience

SQL

BI tools

Executive communication

Education

BS/BA in Economics, Finance, or Accounting

MBA or CFA a plus

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Mixpanel, Inc. is seeking a high-impact Strategic Finance Lead to own the end-to-end financial planning process for a major domain within our FP&A organization.

This hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area will partner with senior leaders to drive rigorous financial planning and scalable processes. You will shape the 6–12 month financial strategy, build robust business cases, and define metrics that guide leadership decisions across GTM and other functions.