Strategic Finance Analyst

The role

You will own the day-to-day consolidated financial model, expense planning and board reporting, working with the Finance team. You will explain differences between actual results and plans and challenge the company's assumptions.

What you will do

• Maintain the integrated three-statement forecast: income statement, balance sheet and cash flow
• Own the quarterly board pack and investor reporting
• Report costs versus plan each month and explain what changed
• Support fundraising analysis when needed
• Track hiring and vendor spending with team leads and update the forecast each month
• Set up monthly planning reviews so team leads can see their spending outlook
• Support revenue modeling, check inputs and calculations, and document assumptions
• Run the weekly revenue update when the revenue lead is out
• Build a consolidated forecast and monthly reporting pack
• Build an infrastructure cost forecast showing how cost per product changes as usage grows

Required qualifications

• Build and debug an integrated three-statement model in Excel or Google Sheets
• Turn an unclear business question into a model and separate facts from assumptions
• Reconcile model outputs to source data and investigate discrepancies
• Explain why results differ from plan and follow up on missing information
• Ask questions, challenge assumptions constructively, and want to learn how a software business works
• Use AI tools to build and check models, write SQL and automate reporting
• Work in a small team where processes are still being built

Before you apply

• Not sure this role needs a job seeker to have experience in the listed areas, as the posting asks for the skills above without listing years

About the company

PostHog is a product analytics company that stores analytics, errors, replays and business data so teams and their agents can query and act on it. It is remote-first and says it has raised more than $180m.