FP&A Analyst

An overview of this role

The FP&A team partners with executive team members across the company to provide timely, fact-based, data-driven decision support to help drive critical decisions. The team drives annual planning, owns the operating plan and long-term financial model, internal financial reporting, and financial and analytical tools to make GitLab predictable. 

As a Financial Analyst, you will support G&A, R&D and Corporate FP&A teams and report to the Director of FP&A.  

What You’ll Do  

• Financial Modeling: Build, maintain and improve financial models to plan, measure and forecast the business across R&D investments, G&A operations, and corporate initiatives. Develop integrated models that capture interdependencies between functional areas.
• Planning and Financial Analysis: Participate in annual planning, long-term planning, monthly rolling forecast and variance process.
• Project Execution: Run small sized projects that improve our ability to make better data driven insights or make the company more efficient.
• Communication: Effectively communicate to FP&A management, functional managers and directors.
• Autonomy: Execute with moderate supervision from senior members of the team.

What You’ll Bring 

• 2-5 years of experience as an FP&A Analyst or in a similar Finance role ideally with an enterprise SaaS software model.
• BS degree in Finance, Accounting or relevant degree. Relevant certification (e.g. CFA/CPA) is a plus.
• Accounting Foundations: Ability to navigate through the three financial statements in detail and partner with Accounting during the monthly close process.
• Financial Modeling: Be able to understand and update financial models that follow industry best practices. Experience in Google sheets (we do not use excel for modeling purposes).
• Data Analysis: A passion for understanding business questions and making data driven insights. Excellent analytical skills. 
• Detail oriented: Ability to work through complex datasets or problems independently and build an understanding for a solution across multiple data sources.
• Communication: Ability to present financial data concisely using detailed reports and charts and through written and oral communication.
• Systems: Experience with financial systems, such as NetSuite and Adaptive Insights is a plus.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget 
• Parental leave 
• Home office support