Staff Financial Analyst, Corporate Finance
Mozilla
Job Summary
Mozilla Finance is seeking a results-oriented Staff Financial Analyst to lead core financial planning processes, reporting, and strategic analysis. This role involves consolidating forecasts, driving budget discipline, partnering across functions, and enhancing reporting infrastructure using tools like Pigment and Looker. The analyst will develop creative solutions for strategic problems, deliver compelling presentations, and balance big-picture thinking with attention to detail, collaborating with Finance and company colleagues in a fast-paced environment.
Must Have
- Lead the team through the monthly forecast cycle, including preparation and presentation of insights to Finance leadership.
- Drive our consolidated planning process and maintain integrated financial models.
- Develop executive-level reporting, including monthly dashboards, management packages, and Board materials.
- Improve and automate existing reporting processes in Pigment, Looker, and related tools.
- Translate business strategies into financial impact through investment evaluation, sensitivity modeling, and ROI analyses.
- Partner with accounting during close cycles to ensure accuracy in reported financials and alignment between actuals and forecasts.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of three-statement models and scenario-based forecasts.
- 3+ years experience of independently managing budgets and forecasting.
- 5+ years of experience in Corporate FP&A, preferably with experience in a high-growth or tech-enabled environment.
- Bachelor degree in a quantitative field, such as Finance, Statistics, Economics, or Business.
- Experience using planning tools (Pigment, Adaptive, etc.) required.
- Must exhibit ability to create compelling visualizations and presentations.
- Involvement with month-end close and a strong understanding of financial and accounting principles.
- Deep understanding of 3 statement financial modeling and accounting concepts.
- Substantial experience with financial modeling and advanced spreadsheet and data modeling skills (including VBA, array functions, Power Pivots, etc).
Good to Have
- Experience with Netsuite highly preferred, Workday a plus.
- Familiarity with Looker a plus, with ability to tackle, and succeed with, a diverse array of projects that require varying skills, including Python, R, or SQL.
Perks & Benefits
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees.
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting.
- Quarterly all-company wellness days.
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday.
- One-time home office stipend.
- Annual professional development budget.
- Quarterly well-being stipend.
- Considerable paid parental leave.
- Employee referral bonus program.
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. (varies by country)).
Job Description
Why Mozilla?
Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.
The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.
About this team and role:
Mozilla Finance is responsible for strategic resource allocation and oversees day-to-day financial operations as it scales its mission impact with new and existing products, technology, and business models to serve users better and advance an agenda for a healthier internet.
We’re seeking a results-oriented Staff Financial Analyst to lead core financial planning processes, reporting, and strategic analysis. This role will be responsible for consolidating forecasts, driving budget discipline, partnering across functions, and enhancing our reporting infrastructure through automation and tooling (Pigment, Looker, etc.). This role reports to the Head of FP&A and works closely with senior leaders across the organization.
To succeed, you will need to proactively develop creative solutions to abstract strategic problems, deliver your work in a compelling format, and balance big picture thinking with outstanding attention to detail. Seeking a proactive great teammate to collaborate with Finance and company colleagues, complete tasks, and excel in a fast-paced environment.
What you’ll do:
- Be an effective and memorable presenter, combining storytelling with content and delivery to persuade and encourage teams to take action and prioritize resources
- Lead the team through the monthly forecast cycle, including preparation and presentation of insights to Finance leadership
- Drive our consolidated planning process and maintain integrated financial models (e.g., near/long-range forecasts, scenario planning, variance analysis)
- Develop executive-level reporting, including monthly dashboards, management packages, and Board materials
- Improve and automate existing reporting processes in Pigment, Looker, and related tools
- Translate business strategies into financial impact through investment evaluation, sensitivity modeling, and ROI analyses
- Support transformation of legacy reporting processes to scalable, forward-looking tools and frameworks that deliver accurate and insightful information to the management team with speed and reliability
- Partner with accounting during close cycles to ensure accuracy in reported financials and alignment between actuals and forecasts
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of three-statement models and scenario-based forecasts
What you’ll bring:
- 3+ years experience of independently managing budgets and forecasting
- 5+ years of experience in Corporate FP&A, preferably with experience in a high-growth or tech-enabled environment
- Bachelor degree in a quantitative field, such as Finance, Statistics, Economics, or Business
- Experience using planning tools (Pigment, Adaptive, etc.) required
- Experience with Netsuite highly preferred, Workday a plus
- Must exhibit ability to create compelling visualizations and presentations
- Involvement with month-end close and a strong understanding of financial and accounting principles
- Deep understanding of 3 statement financial modeling and accounting concepts
- Flexibility (open to change) and ability to learn on the fly
- Candidates must possess substantial experience with financial modeling and advanced spreadsheet and data modeling skills (including VBA, array functions, Power Pivots, etc) – to develop sophisticated and scalable models
- Familiarity with Looker a plus, with ability to tackle, and succeed with, a diverse array of projects that require varying skills, including Python, R, or SQL
- Strong attention to detail; analytical and inquisitive nature
- An appetite to take on increased responsibility and grow your career
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence through creating fellowship
Success Factors
You will likely be happy and productive in this role if you…
- Get things done and can move quickly and smartly to set goals and then develop plans to deliver and achieve them
- Are analytical. You know how to crunch data in Excel and build compelling presentations
- Have a strong builder mentality and can bring order to uncertainty, especially without direction
- Passionate about continuous improvement. Are able to effectively challenge the status quo and plan forward-looking roadmaps
What you’ll get:
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
- Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Considerable paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. (varies by country)