Senior Financial Analyst, Business Finance

The role

You will provide Product, Engineering, and Design partners with financial analysis to plan, manage budgets, and make investment decisions. You will own recurring planning and analysis work including headcount tracking, expense forecasting, and evaluating resource trade-offs.

What you will do

• Own budget tracking and expense forecasts for assigned teams.
• Partner with Corporate FP&A and business stakeholders to explain variances and flag risks.
• Track open roles, hiring assumptions, and headcount allocations.
• Model proposed changes to see costs and budget fit.
• Build financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate investment requests and resource allocation.
• Analyze technology, infrastructure, and AI usage costs.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Design and Business Analytics to gather inputs.
• Turn analyses into clear business reviews and recommendations.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in corporate FP&A, business finance or a similar finance business-partnering role.
• Experience analyzing budgets, tracking expenses or headcount, and building forecasts.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills in Excel or Google Sheets.
• Ability to structure moderately ambiguous questions and gather inputs from data and stakeholders.
• Sound judgment on costs, benefits and near-term trade-offs.
• Ability to explain financial drivers and recommendations clearly to non-finance partners.
• Track record of building collaborative relationships and following through on commitments.

About the company

Thumbtack is an app used to take care of and improve homes. The Business Finance team helps the company make sound financial decisions and put resources where they move company goals.