Chainguard

Senior Financial Analyst

Chainguard

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $104,000 - $130,000 per year

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About the role

  • Own the financial model
  • Build, maintain, and continuously improve operating and cash flow models
  • Translate strategic initiatives into scenarios (pricing, headcount, GTM changes)
  • Stress-test assumptions and proactively surface risks and opportunities
  • Evolve models as the business scales and changes
  • Define and own core business and sales KPIs
  • Build dashboards that leadership actively uses to make decisions
  • Partner with Sales, Ops, and Finance to ensure metrics are accurate and actionable
  • Continuously iterate on metrics that are not driving behavior or outcomes
  • Analyze revenue, pipeline, sales efficiency, and unit economics
  • Deliver clear insights on what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what to do next
  • Proactively identify trends and issues before they show up in results
  • Support high-impact ad hoc analyses tied to real business decisions
  • Work closely with the Head of FP&A on strategic questions
  • Bring data-backed hypotheses and perspectives
  • Challenge assumptions constructively
  • Help drive tradeoff decisions across growth, efficiency, and cash

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field
  • 5+ years of experience in finance, FP&A, or a similar analytical role
  • Experience in consulting and/or high-growth startup environments
  • Exposure to sales, revenue, or GTM metrics
  • Strong bias for action with a track record of delivering results in fast-paced environments
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity with imperfect data
  • Decision-oriented mindset focused on outcomes, not just reporting
  • Ability to work onsite and collaborate closely with cross-functional partners
  • Advanced Excel or Google Sheets proficiency
  • Familiarity with planning tools such as Pigment or Anaplan
  • Experience with BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI) is a plus.
Benefits
  • Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
  • Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
  • 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
  • ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
  • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelingoperating modelscash flow modelssales KPIsrevenue analysispipeline analysissales efficiencyunit economicsadvanced ExcelGoogle Sheets
Soft Skills
strong bias for actionexcellent communication skillsdecision-oriented mindsetability to operate in ambiguitycollaborationconstructive challengedata-backed hypothesesproactive identification of trendsiterative improvementresults-driven