Senior Strategic Finance Analyst, Advertising
Life360
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $110,000 - $152,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Tableau
About the role
- Provide financial and analytical support to the Advertising business, and maintain financial models to forecast revenue, costs, and contribution profit
- Conduct monthly and quarterly variance analysis, identifying key performance drivers
- Track, analyze, and report functional costs and their impact on the company’s overall performance
- Work closely with the Ads Commercial team to analyze deal opportunities and their financial impacts, including tradeoffs of internal resources and inventory allocation
- Collaborate across Ad Sales, Legal, and Accounting teams to draft deal proposals and contracts, including working directly with B2B clients to understand the detailed requirements, sizing, and pricing of commercial deals
- Take full ownership and accountability of assigned workstreams, ensuring deliverables are accurate, timely, and actionable
- Develop strong working relationships with current and future business partners across the growing Ads group, and be willing to challenge assumptions and feasibility
- Stay close to both the day-to-day operations and long-term outlook of the Ads business to proactively raise concerns or potential roadblocks to achieving business targets
- Improve pacing, reporting, and operational processes in a rapidly changing business and identify opportunities for automation and scalability
- Maintain an exceptional level of attention to detail in financial modeling, reporting, and analysis, producing work that consistently withstands rigorous scrutiny
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 4+ years of finance experience, with a strong preference for either investment banking backgrounds or Ads / Ad Tech finance experience. Exceptional candidates with other corporate or strategic finance experience, particularly in high-growth tech environments, are also encouraged to apply
- Strong financial modeling and analytical problem solving skills, with the ability to synthesize data into clear insights and communicate them effectively to leaders
- Advanced Excel and Google Suite (Sheets, Docs, Slides) required
- Experience with financial planning systems (Causal, Adaptive, Anaplan etc), Tableau, or other BI tools is a plus
- Extremely proactive, self-starter, and approaches problems in a structured manner, paired with intellectual curiosity and aptitude for learning new technical skills
- High degree of intellectual curiosity and openness to exploring new ideas, including how to use automation & AI to more efficiently and effectively serve the business (experience in low code agentic models using LLMs a plus)
- Ability to influence business strategy and translate that strategy into financial models to guide leaders & support decision making - must think beyond finance
- High degree of accountability and ownership; someone who follows through end-to-end and holds themselves to the highest standard
- Meticulous attention to detail, with a proven track record of delivering error-free analyses and recommendations that inspire confidence across stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills and ability to partner effectively across teams
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees)
- 401(k) plan with company matching program
- Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being
- Flexible PTO, 13 company-wide days off throughout the year
- Winter and Summer Weeklong Synchronized Company Shutdowns
- Learning & Development programs
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
- Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle
- Free Tile Products
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial modelinganalytical problem solvingvariance analysisdata synthesisfinancial planning systemsExcelGoogle SuiteTableauautomationlow code agentic models
Soft skills
proactiveself-starterstructured problem solvingintellectual curiosityaccountabilityattention to detailcommunicationcollaborationinfluenceownership