Senior Financial Analyst

There's a story amongst that mountain of data and you're the person to find it! You're a strategic problem solver and you have a natural curiosity to use data to drive decision making. That's not all, you're a tinkerer as well. You love tweaking assumptions on your quest to optimize and improve.

You're collaborative by nature and love teaming up across the business to build a cohesive picture. You understand that great FP&A team's partner and embed themselves within the business.

If this sounds like you, you've come to the right place! At Expel, you'll have the opportunity to have a huge impact on the financial outcomes of our business through your insights and recommendations. You'll be at the forefront of our budgeting, forecasting and decision support. We'll look to you to create visibility and find opportunities for improvement, areas for growth, and potential risks throughout the business.

We look forward to meeting you!

• What Expel Can Do For You
• Ability to impact all functions of the business: figuring out how to improve sales and operational efficiency, increase gross margins, deliver higher return on investment on new products offerings to name a few
• Connect you with metrics oriented business partners throughout the organization to help you build an in-depth of understanding of how our business operates
• Give you the freedom to challenge existing (and introduce new) assumptions
• Ensure you get the support, mentoring, and feedback that you need to be successful
• Develop your understanding of the cybersecurity market and its macro environment
• What You Can Do For Expel
• Maintain and continuously improve a 3 year operating and financial plan for Expel's business and our rolling financial and cash forecasting process and reporting
• Provide decision support through modeling, financial scenarios, profitability models and other analysis to business leaders around critical initiatives, operational efficiency drivers along with other business metrics
• Collaborate across the organization to model potential business decisions to ensure consistent understanding of their financial impact, support ARR, revenue and operating expense forecasting
• Assist with preparation of meaningful metrics, forecasts and financial/operational dashboards to communicate business performance to the senior management team and support board presentations
• Establish proactive processes and reports for providing real-time visibility on P&L dynamics and budget performance by working cross-functionally.
• Continue maturing our financial reporting process through our enterprise planning software, Workday Adaptive Planning
• Identify, lead and project manage initiatives to continuously improve, automate and scale forecasting and reporting tools, processes and methodologies
• What You Should Bring With You
• Advanced financial modeling techniques and problem-solving skills
• A deep understanding of SaaS business models and SaaS metrics
• Strong financial systems skills with SaaS applications supporting accounting workflows and FP&A such as Adaptive Planning, Intacct, Salesforce, and Domo
• Advanced skill with Excel/Google Sheets
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to embrace ambiguity and break down complex problems to provide clear and effective recommendations
• 6-10 years of proven experience in financial planning and analysis
• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, or related field

Additional Notes

The base salary range for this role is between $105,000 USD and $151,200 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.

We believe in paying transparently and equitably. Your salary will ultimately be based on factors such as your experience, skills, team equity, and market data. You'll also be eligible for unlimited PTO (which we model and encourage), work location flexibility, up to 24 weeks of parental leave, and really excellent health benefits.

This role will be based out of our offices in Herndon, Virginia. We will consider remote work for this position.

At Expel, we ask our crew to provide their covid-19 vaccination status because it's helpful to understand this data at a company level and we expect that customers, partners, and conferences will start asking us to attest to the vaccination status of our people.

We're an Equal Opportunity Employer: You'll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please let us know if you need accommodation of any kind.

We're only hiring those authorized to work in the United States. We do not currently sponsor immigration visas.