Strategic Financial Analyst (GTM)

Join Benchling as a Strategic Financial Analyst in our Strategic Finance team. In this high-impact role, you will be responsible for the monthly and quarterly close process, budgeting and forecasting, sales performance analysis, and expense management. You will build and maintain full year budgets and quarterly forecasts, deliver monthly/quarterly analyses of financial results, support commissions calculations and reporting, and partner with business leaders to drive strategic initiatives. This position offers a competitive salary, equity, robust healthcare benefits, family-forming benefits, four months of fully paid parental leave, and retirement benefits.

• Ownership of the monthly and quarterly close process, budgeting and forecasting, sales performance analysis, and expense management.
• Building and maintaining full year budgets and quarterly forecasts for various Field Organizations, delivering monthly/quarterly analyses of financial results.
• Partnering with business leaders to drive strategic initiatives influencing business decisions and providing proactive recommendations.

• Strong understanding and substantial knowledge of complex financial modeling, GAAP accounting and FP&A best practices
• 2–5 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience, with at least 2 years supporting a Sales or GTM org at a SaaS company
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics or equivalent area
• Strong Communication Skills - ability to think logically, rationally, and strategically in order to distill and articulate complex data to drive business decisions. Experience presenting analyses to management and ability to lead and drive initiatives
• Proficiency in Excel/Sheets and a planning tool (Adaptive, Anaplan, or equivalent) required. Salesforce and Certinia experience is a strong plus