Financial Analyst, Sales

Benchling

Strategic Financial Analyst supporting Sales organization at biotech AI platform. Involves budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and driving strategic initiatives.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $119,000 - $161,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain full year budgets and quarterly forecasts for various Field Organizations (Sales, Solution Consulting, Sales Operations & Enablement, and Customer Success)
Deliver monthly/quarterly analyses of financial results including BvA variances to plan, ensuring key issues, risks and business drivers are understood and proactively highlighted
Support commissions calculations and reporting, analytics and support annual comp plan design
Support the company-wide annual and long-range planning processes
Partner with Accounting on monthly close activities such as vendor trend reviews, closed-won opportunities, collections, and commissions payments
Develop and continually improve sales and customer metrics (revenue, ARR, ASP, seat penetration, quota attainment etc.)
Partner with business leaders to drive strategic initiatives influencing business decisions and by providing proactive recommendations, backed by strong business and financial analysis
Drive ad-hoc projects and analysis to support Benchling’s long-term growth

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics or equivalent area.
2-5+ years experience in FP&A/Strategic Finance at a High Growth Startup or Public Company (Enterprise Software / SaaS experience a plus)
Strong understanding and substantial knowledge of complex financial modeling, GAAP accounting and FP&A best practices
Strong Communication Skills - ability to think logically, rationally, and strategically in order to distill and articulate complex data to drive business decisions.
Experience presenting analyses to management and ability to lead and drive initiatives
Experience with Salesforce, Certinia (fka FinancialForce), and Adaptive a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

equity
health
dental
vision
401(k)+ employer match
wellness
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Hard Skills & Tools

financial modelingGAAP accountingFP&A best practicesbudgetingforecastingdata analysiscommission calculationsrevenue metricscustomer metricsstrategic financial analysis

Soft Skills

strong communication skillslogical thinkingstrategic thinkingpresentation skillsinitiative leadershipproactive recommendationsbusiness acumenanalytical skillscollaborationproblem-solving