Strategic Financial Analyst, GTM

The role

This Financial Analyst will join the Strategic Finance team to support the Sales organization. You will own monthly and quarterly close processes, budgeting, forecasting, sales performance analysis, and expense management.

What you will do

• Build and maintain full year budgets and quarterly forecasts for Field Organizations
• Deliver monthly and quarterly analyses of financial results including BvA variances
• Support commissions calculations, reporting, analytics and annual comp plan design
• Support company-wide annual and long-range planning processes
• Partner with Accounting on monthly close activities
• Develop and improve sales and customer metrics
• Partner with business leaders to drive strategic initiatives and provide recommendations
• Drive ad-hoc projects and analysis to support long-term growth

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics or equivalent area
• 2–5 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience
• At least 2 years supporting a Sales, Marketing or GTM org at a SaaS company
• Strong understanding and substantial knowledge of complex financial modeling, GAAP accounting and FP&A best practices
• Strong Communication Skills
• Experience presenting analyses to management
• Ability to lead and drive initiatives
• Proficiency in Excel/Sheets
• Proficiency in a planning tool (Adaptive, Anaplan, or equivalent)

Nice to have

• Salesforce experience
• Certinia experience

Before you apply

• Only candidates currently living in the San Francisco area will be considered
• You'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion during the interview process

About the company

Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work.