Paraform
Strategic Finance & FP&A, Senior Associate
San Francisco. Posted 10 days ago
The role
You will be the analyst behind marketplace levers including recruiter incentives, pricing, and unit economics. You will maintain the operating model, run monthly budget vs. actuals reviews, and build the metrics layer for leadership.
What you will do
- Maintain the operating model with the VP Finance.
- Keep drivers current including revenue, GMV, headcount, and OpEx.
- Support the annual plan and quarterly reforecasts.
- Model marketplace levers such as recruiter incentives, pricing, and take rate.
- Own unit economics including GMV, net revenue, take rate, and LTV:CAC.
- Run monthly budget vs. actuals and department-level flux review.
- Partner with RevOps and BizOps to define metrics and build dashboards.
- Automate reporting with AI.
Required qualifications
- 3–5 years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, PE, or top-tier consulting.
- At least 1–2 years building models an operating team actually used.
- Expert spreadsheet modeling including three-statement, driver-based forecasts, and scenario analysis.
- Comfortable presenting numbers to executives and turning an ambiguous question into a clear answer.
Nice to have
- experience at a marketplace, fintech, or usage-based business
- a Series B–C fundraise
- hands-on with a planning tool (Pigment, Anaplan)
- SQL/BI (Metabase, Looker)
- Experience in multi-sided / marketplace businesses
- Has owned analysis of a marketing subsidy or incentive program
- Has built the take-rate or pricing model at a marketplace and defended it to leadership
- Has run a monthly BvA where department leads had to explain their variances to them
- Has worked from raw transaction data (SQL or exports), not just a finance system's outputs
- Has gone through a raise on the company side: model, data room, diligence questions
About the company
Paraform is an end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with specialized recruiters and AI agents. The company is backed by Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, and founders of YouTube, Instacart, and Canva.