Senior Financial Analyst I, Business Finance, Demand Forecasting

3 weeks ago

Old Toronto, Canada Thumbtack Full time

About the Business Finance Team

Business finance is a highly visible team that supports partners across the organization to ensure that sound financial decisions are made in order for Thumbtack to achieve financial performance against company goals.

Together with business analytics, business finance serves as partners for marketing, sales, and product teams across Thumbtack, and uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand business trends, unlock potential revenue levers, and support the corporate FP&A team in monthly revenue forecasting.

About the Role

The Senior Financial Analyst, Business Finance will support Marketing and Sales leaders and partner with their respective teams to understand main business drivers, individual channel performance and forecast, and develop go forward business strategies to ensure that business decisions are aligned with overall finance and company goals. You will partner with both product and business analytics teams to perform deep dives into initiatives to construct a cohesive story for both performance to date and go forward strategies. Finally, you will also play a critical role in total company demand forecasting, where you will work closely with the corporate FP&A team to summarize and translate individual business initiatives into revenue drivers.

Responsibilities

  • Build strong relationships with business partners and influence decisions outside of finance through data analysis and deep understanding of the business
  • Responsible for modeling all aspects of demand (marketing, partnerships, product impact) and translating it into demand forecasts
  • Partner with product teams to understand how product changes impact the customer funnel performance
  • Partner with partnership teams to understand pipeline for new deals and drivers of existing partnerships performance
  • Partner with sales, marketing, and analytics teams to understand business initiatives and the impacted revenue drivers
  • Attend weekly business reviews, monitor overall demand driver performance to generate cohesive business performance summaries for senior leadership
  • Partner with various teams to track performance against annual plan and gather and provide input from product and business analytics teams to inform business finance revenue forecasting
  • Provide variance analysis from plan and quantify drivers of the variance

What you'll need

If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

  • 8+ years of FP&A experience, with at least 4 years of Corporate, Business Finance or Go to Market teams.
  • Experience presenting to senior leaders and working with cross-functional teams to build aligned views of the business
  • Excellent financial modeling and analytical skills, using G-Suite, SQL and MS Office Suite
  • Able to translate financial analytics into clear and insightful recommendations for business stakeholders
  • Proven ability to collaborate cross functionally
  • Broad understanding of marketing performance metrics and how they impact demand forecasts
  • Ability to provide clear recommendations and influence change within the organization
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Bonus points if you have

  • Experience working for a tech company, company that operates within a marketplace or public company experience a plus
  • Previous experience in supporting/partnering with marketing, sales, and business analytics teams
  • Experience working with Media Mix Models
  • Ability to automate forecasts using python, R or other programming languages.

Thumbtack is a virtual-first company, meaning you can live and work from any one of our approved locations across the United States, Canada or the Philippines.* Learn more about our virtual-first working model here.

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