Github Looking for Senior Strategic Finance Analyst at New York, NY, United States Full Time

Job Description

GitHub is the place where over 83 million developers host and review code, manage projects and collaborate on the software that powers the modern world.

GitHub’s Strategic Finance team is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to focus on Corporate Planning. The role provides the opportunity to build a diverse skill set centered around optimizing and scaling a high growth SaaS business.

Responsibilities:

• Planning & Measuring: Collaborate directly with leaders of key business divisions and members of our senior leadership team to develop plans and set goals to enable the business to achieve its growth objectives.
• Reporting & Communication: Drive accurate and engaging monthly reporting on the pulse of the business. Communicate and collaborate with business partners to gain insight and surface key financial and operational metrics.
• Strategic Business Partnership: Regularly collaborate and build relationships with business partners to understand the changing goals and priorities of the business. Use this information to support agile investment trade off decisions.

Requirements:

• 3-6 years of relevant work experience. Examples include strategic finance / FP&A, investment banking / equity research, corporate finance / valuations or venture capital / funds management.
• Technical Skills: Experience with sophisticated financial modeling and working with large data sets.
• Business Intuition: Solid understanding of the key drivers of a SaaS business.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.

Preferred requirements:

• Prior experience supporting the FP&A function of a SaaS business.
• SaaS M&A experience including evaluating strategic acquisition opportunities, due diligence, valuation / modeling and deal execution is a plus.
• Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal storyteller with the ability to explain complex financial concepts to a variety of audiences.
• Interpersonal Skills: Build trust and effectively collaborate cross-functionally
• Detail Oriented: Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Personal Traits: Natural curiosity; innate ability to problem solve; hunger to learn

(Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $73,500 to maximum $156,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired in Colorado.

Who We Are:

GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come together—as individuals and in teams—to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.

Leadership Principles:

Customer Obsessed – Trust by Default – Ship to Learn – Own the Outcome – Growth Mindset – Global Product, Global Team – Anything is Possible – Practice Kindness

Why You Should Join:

At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We’ve designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe. Check out an updated list of where we can hire here: https://github.com/about/careers/remote

We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We’ve designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we’ve built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!

Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.

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