Strategic FP&A Analyst — Revenue Insights & Modeling

The MathWorks, Inc.; Natick (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MathWorks seeks a strategic Senior FP&A Analyst to lead planning, forecasting, and revenue insights. This hands-on role partners closely with the business to build financial models, scenarios, and analyses that improve forecast quality and support growth decisions.

The ideal candidate blends finance acumen with data skills and works with planning systems, data warehouse teams, and analytics resources in a hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or equivalent experience) is required.
• Visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without restriction.

Responsibilities

• Lead significant components of the annual planning and recurring forecast processes, with a focus on revenue and growth drivers.
• Design and refine forecasting frameworks, assumptions, and scenarios to improve accuracy, transparency, and decision usefulness.
• Analyze actual results versus plan from multiple perspectives and clearly articulate drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop forward-looking insights across key revenue and business metrics (e.g., ARR, customer trends, renewals, churn, growth drivers).
• Frame analyses with potential counter measures, enabling leadership to make informed decisions.
• Identify emerging trends and proactively bring insights to FP&A leadership and business partners.
• Proactively identify and drive improvements in forecasting accuracy, automation, data quality, and FP&A processes.
• Build, own, and maintain complex financial models supporting scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and strategic decision-making.
• Improve existing models by introducing new techniques, enhancing structure, and increasing scalability and usability.
• Leverage tools such as Anaplan, Snowflake, SQL, Power BI, and Excel; gather data, automate recurring analysis, and support planning and reporting needs.
• Partner with technical data warehouse and analytics teams to define data requirements, validate source data, troubleshoot data issues, and translate business needs into practical reporting and automation solutions.
• Develop efficient, repeatable approaches for data gathering, transformation, and reconciliation to reduce manual effort and improve consistency across planning and forecast processes.

Skills

Financial modeling

Analytical thinking

Data interpretation

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

Tools

Anaplan

Snowflake

SQL

Power BI

Excel

Job description

MathWorks seeks a strategic Senior FP&A Analyst to lead planning, forecasting, and revenue insights. This hands-on role partners closely with the business to build financial models, scenarios, and analyses that improve forecast quality and support growth decisions.

The ideal candidate blends finance acumen with data skills and works with planning systems, data warehouse teams, and analytics resources in a hybrid environment.