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Senior SAAS Finance, Business Analyst

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full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: SeattleArizonaCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $115,000 - $142,000 per year

Job Level

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About the role

  • Analyze complex business and financial data to provide actionable insights and support strategic decision-making.
  • Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, and ad hoc analyses that offer real-time visibility into operational and subscription-based KPI’s.
  • Build advanced financial and analytical models to forecast performance, assess ROI, evaluate business scenarios, and improve forecast accuracy.
  • Create compelling visualizations, narratives, and presentations to effectively communicate trends, risks, opportunities, and insights.
  • Monitor and interpret leading and lagging indicators such as product adoption, customer health, pipeline coverage, and sales velocity to proactively identify business risks and opportunities.
  • Identify and interpret patterns, trends, and emerging signals—including in situations with incomplete data—using strong analytical judgment, assumptions, and proxies as needed.
  • Independently identify and pursue industry trends, market developments, and emerging technologies, proactively incorporating relevant insights into analytical approaches and recommendations.
  • Ensure accuracy and reliability by incorporating robust checks and balances into reports, dashboards, and models.
  • Collaborate with cross‑functional partners to translate business needs into clear, detailed technical requirements and ensure alignment on definitions and methodologies for core SaaS metrics.
  • Support database development projects to ensure data standards are met.
  • Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and implement solutions accordingly.
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation for processes, requirements, methodologies, and analytical outputs.

Requirements

  • 7+ years’ experience in financial analysis and business analytics, with at least 3 years in a SaaS environment working with subscription‑based performance metrics such as ARR, MRR, retention, churn, and cohort analysis
  • Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
  • Solid understanding of data structures, analytics, ETL processing, and data warehousing
  • Advanced skills in Power BI (Power Query M, DAX), Excel and SQL
  • Experience with CRM & ERP systems, subscription business models, and SaaS performance metrics; Ed Tech experience preferred
  • Demonstrate strong self-direction by proactively identifying emerging trends, relevant metrics, and analytical opportunities, leveraging innovative approaches to obtain insights and inform decision making
  • Proven ability to support data-driven decision-making, at all levels, through well-structured analysis, clear narratives, and strategic recommendations.
  • Solid understanding of core financial, subscription revenue, and business concepts.
  • Strong data visualization and data storytelling capabilities
  • Exceptional analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities meet deadlines, and work in a fast-paced environment
  • High attention to detail, confidentiality, and sound professional judgement.
Benefits
  • We cover 100% of your premiums for medical, dental and vision coverage and 50% for your dependent’s medical and dental premiums
  • Retirement plan + company match up to 3%
  • A flexible work subsidy: $100 per month that you can use on things like phone and internet costs, office supplies, or even commuting costs
  • 16 paid holidays (including winter break and 1 floating holiday), 3 weeks' vacation in your first year, and separate sick leave accrual
  • Other great benefits include: monthly contribution to childcare and/or dependent expenses, FSA account, parental leave, sabbatical leave, employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, growth and development opportunities, disability and life insurance.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial analysisbusiness analyticsdata structuresETL processingdata warehousingPower BIExcelSQLdata visualizationdata storytelling
Soft Skills
analytical judgmentcritical thinkingproblem-solvingself-directionattention to detailcommunicationcollaborationtime managementstrategic thinkingadaptability