Hybrid Senior Finance Analyst

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Senior Finance Analyst connecting strategy to numbers at Smartly, a FinTech for payroll management. Focused on financial insight and decision support in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Leading or supporting budgeting and forecasting for assigned functions, value streams, or products.
  • Building and maintaining driver-based financial models for SaaS metrics such as MRR, ARR, churn, ARPU, CAC, LTV, and contribution margin.
  • Partnering with budget owners to test assumptions, highlight risks and opportunities, and inform capital allocation decisions.
  • Running scenario and sensitivity analysis on pricing, campaigns, investment timing, and people growth.
  • Producing management reporting, variance analysis, and executive commentary for allocated business areas.
  • Delivering deep-dive analysis on unit economics, funnel performance, churn drivers, product or segment profitability.
  • Supporting product, GTM, and operations teams with commercial analysis for new initiatives.
  • Preparing structured investment analyses for product, AI, GTM, or efficiency projects.
  • Improving finance processes, reporting, systems, and adopting AI-enabled analytics tools.
  • Promoting strong financial literacy and learning-led decision-making across the organisation.

Requirements

  • 4–7+ years in finance roles focused on analysis, planning, and business partnering.
  • Strong financial modelling and scenario planning skills, with advanced Excel capability
  • Proven experience with forecasting, budgeting, management reporting, and variance analysis.
  • Ability to translate financial data into strategic and commercial insight for non-finance stakeholders.
  • Sound understanding (or ability to quickly learn) of SaaS metrics such as LTV, CAC, MRR/ARR, churn, and Rule of 40.
  • Experience operating in high-growth environments, SMEs, or SaaS/subscription-based businesses.
  • Exposure to financial operations and controls (e.g., revenue recognition, accruals, cost allocations).
  • Familiarity with BI/data tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Commerce or Finance, and a professional qualification such as CA, CPA or CFA, or equivalent relevant experience.

Job title

Senior Finance Analyst

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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