FP&A Analyst – OPEX & Compensation Strategy

Filevine

FP&A Analyst managing operating expense planning and compensation analytics for a Legal AI company. Collaborate with functional leaders on budgeting, hiring plans, and workforce decisions.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeSalt Lake City • Utah • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Tableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the OPEX forecast across G&A, R&D, S&M, and Customer Success — partnering with department heads on monthly forecast updates, variance analysis, and reforecast cycles
Build and maintain the company-wide headcount model, including hiring plans, attrition assumptions, fully-loaded cost build-ups, and ratio analysis (e.g., R&D as % of revenue, S&M efficiency)
Lead compensation benchmarking by leveraging market data sources (Radford, Lattice) to ensure roles are competitively positioned across base, bonus, equity, and OTE
Partner with People Ops on annual merit cycles, promotion rounds, and new-hire offer guardrails — including impact modeling on the P&L
Analyze sales compensation plan design and accrual against quota attainment, working closely with the GTM finance lead on quota setting and plan economics
Support board and investor reporting with workforce metrics, OPEX trend analysis, and benchmarking against SaaS/AI peers
Build self-serve dashboards in Domo and our financial model so leaders can monitor spend and headcount in real time
Contribute to fundraising and M&A diligence workstreams, particularly around cost structure, synergy modeling, and compensation harmonization

Requirements

What you’ll need

3-6 years of FP&A experience, ideally with meaningful time at a high-growth SaaS company; investment banking, consulting, or Big 4 backgrounds welcome
Strong technical foundation: advanced Excel, comfort with financial modeling, and familiarity with BI tools (Domo, Looker, Tableau)
Working knowledge of SaaS unit economics and operating metrics (Rule of 40, CAC, magic number, Adj EBITDA)
Experience with compensation benchmarking data and frameworks; understanding of how equity (ISOs) and variable comp flow through the P&L
Sharp analytical instincts paired with the communication skills to influence non-finance leaders
Comfort operating in ambiguity and a bias toward building scalable processes
Bonus: experience with NetSuite, Adaptive Planning, or similar EPM tools; prior exposure to legal tech or vertical SaaS

Benefits

Comp & perks

A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
Competitive & Fair Pay
Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
Short & long-term disability
Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
Top-of-the-line company swag

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Hard Skills & Tools

FP&Afinancial modelingvariance analysiscompensation benchmarkingquota attainment analysiscost structure analysissynergy modelingattrition assumptionsratio analysisoperating metrics

Soft Skills

analytical instinctscommunication skillsinfluence non-finance leadersoperating in ambiguitybuilding scalable processes