Senior Financial Analyst
Job Description
We are seeking a strategic Senior FP&A Analyst to play a key role in driving MathWorks’ planning, forecasting, and revenue insights. This hands‑on role partners closely with the business to deliver clear financial models, scenarios, and analyses that improve forecast quality and support growth‑oriented decisions.
### **Responsibilities**
**Planning & Forecasting**
- Lead significant components of the annual planning and recurring forecast processes, with a focus on revenue and growth drivers.
- Design and refine forecasting frameworks, assumptions, and scenarios to improve accuracy, transparency, and decision usefulness.
- Analyze actual results versus plan from multiple perspectives and clearly articulate drivers, risks, and opportunities.
**Revenue Analytics & Insights**
- Develop forward looking insights across key revenue and business metrics (e.g., ARR, customer trends, renewals, churn, growth drivers).
- Frame analyses with potential counter measures, enabling leadership to make informed decisions.
- Identify emerging trends and proactively bring insights to FP&A leadership and business partners.
- Proactively identify and drive improvements in forecasting accuracy, automation, and FP&A processes.
**Modeling & Data Management**
- Build, own, and maintain complex financial models supporting scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and strategic decision-making.
- Improve existing models by introducing new techniques, enhancing structure, and increasing scalability and usability.
- Leverage tools such as Anaplan, Snowflake, Excel, and other analytics platforms to support planning and analysis.
**Communication & Business Partnership**
- Present insights, recommendations, and scenarios directly to senior and executive leadership.
- Act as a business partner to Sales Operations, and other cross functional teams, to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure models and analyses reflect underlying business drivers.
- Translate complex data into clear narratives that resonate with financial and non‑financial audiences.
### **Minimum Qualifications**
- A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or equivalent experience) is required.
- Candidates for this position must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without restriction.
- Visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position.
### **Additional Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.\
- 6+ years of experience in FP&A or related finance roles, preferably in a SaaS or technology environment in a multi-national or Global company.
- Proven ability to operate independently, manage ambiguity, and influence decisions through analysis.
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem solving skills.
- Clear and confident communicator with experience presenting to senior stakeholders.
- Experience with planning and analytics tools (e.g., Anaplan, Snowflake, Power BI) is a plus.
**Why MathWorks?**
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It's the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It's the opportunity to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. And it’s a commitment to doing the right thing—for each individual, our customers, and the local community. We cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.
MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,500 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.
**YOU + MathWorks = Unlimited Possibilities**
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