Senior, FP&A POST NUMBER: 433119
Location: West LA
Company: Vaco – SaaS
Reports to: Director of Finance
About Us:
Our client is on a mission to transform the way businesses operate through innovative SaaS solutions. Post-B round, we're scaling rapidly and expanding our product offerings to empower organizations of all sizes to drive efficiency, enhance productivity, and make data-driven decisions that accelerate growth.
As a Senior FP&A Analyst, you will be responsible for providing detailed financial analysis, strategic insights, and recommendations to support the company's growth and financial objectives. You will collaborate closely with leadership to ensure financial planning and forecasting processes are optimized, leveraging financial modeling, advanced analytics, and SaaS metrics to guide decision-making. This role will also involve managing and enhancing financial reporting and dashboards, using tools like Power BI and Tableau to visualize key business performance indicators.
Key Responsibilities:
- Financial Planning & Analysis: Lead the development and management of financial models, forecasts, and budgets. Provide insights into revenue, cost, and profitability trends, with a focus on scalability and growth.
- SaaS Metrics & KPI Design: Design and monitor key SaaS metrics, including LTV, CAC, churn, ARR, and MRR. Work with product and sales teams to build financial models that support business growth strategies.
- Data Visualization & Reporting: Develop and maintain interactive dashboards (Power BI/Tableau) to communicate financial data clearly and effectively across various departments. Ensure stakeholders have real-time access to key business insights.
- Financial Modeling: Build and refine complex financial models to analyze business performance, pricing strategies, and new opportunities. Provide decision support and strategic guidance for executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Business Partnering: Collaborate with senior leadership, sales, marketing, product, and operations teams to align financial goals with business priorities, identifying areas for operational efficiency and cost optimization.
- Forecasting & Scenario Planning: Drive the quarterly and annual budgeting process, continuously revising forecasts based on actual performance and changes in business assumptions.
- Variance Analysis: Provide monthly, quarterly, and annual variance analysis of actuals versus budget, highlighting trends and explaining discrepancies to inform better business decisions.
- Experience:
- 3-5 years of experience in FP&A, with a focus on financial modeling, SaaS business metrics, and KPI design.
- Experience in a tech startup or high-growth environment is highly preferred.
- Comfortable with Systems: NetSuite, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, etc.
- Strong financial modeling skills in Excel; experience with advanced functions such as macros and VBA.
- Deep understanding of SaaS financial metrics (LTV, CAC, ARR, MRR, churn, etc.) and KPI design.
- Exceptional ability to analyze large datasets, identify trends, and deliver actionable insights.
- Strong understanding of business drivers and ability to connect financial performance with operational results.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial data to non-financial stakeholders.
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.