MURAL

Senior Financial Analyst, R&D

MURAL$107K — $134K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in Finance, particularly 2+ years FP&A in a SaaS environment.
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, statistics, economics, business or related fields.
  • Proficient in financial planning software (e.g. Adaptive Planning) and BI tools (e.g. Tableau).
  • Exceptional Excel/Google Sheets skills for handling large data sets.
  • Strong communication skills for conveying financial concepts effectively.
  • Robust analytical skills for interpreting complex data.

Responsibilities

  • Support financial and business stakeholders with actionable insights.
  • Develop and maintain financial models supporting product development.
  • Participate in annual and long-term planning with financial analysis.
  • Produce KPI reporting and identify trends in performance data.
  • Manage small projects to enhance data-driven decision-making.
  • Collaborate with various teams for comprehensive variance analysis.
  • Provide monthly analysis of SaaS metrics and benchmarking.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility with necessary time zone overlap.
  • Opportunities for professional growth in a global expanding company.
  • Supportive team environment with cross-functional collaboration.
  • Engagement in diverse and impactful financial projects.
Full Job Description
YOUR MISSION

You will grow our business by providing actionable insights that will help MURAL expand globally. This role is remote, however, you will need to have significant overlap with eastern and pacific time zones. Our belief is simple: the most powerful storytelling is done with numbers. Your role as a Senior Financial Analyst makes that a reality. You're responsible for analyzing business performance to uncover trends, insights, and opportunities.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Business Partnership: Support financial and business stakeholders with data and insights that support business strategies, spending initiatives, ad hoc financial analysis and monthly, quarterly and annual planning.
  • Financial Modeling: Develop and maintain models that align with and support the product roadmap, and assess the outcomes delivered by the R&D teams.
  • Planning and Financial Analysis: Participate in annual planning, long-term planning, rolling forecasts and variance analysis (e.g. headcount, hosting and AI costs).
  • Data Analysis: Produce KPI reporting and root cause trends in KPIs. Prepare insights for variance and key meetings.
  • Project Management: Run small sized projects that improve our ability to make better data driven insights or make the company more efficient.
  • Communication: Target audience to FP&A management, functional managers and directors.
  • Work cross functionally:
    • Accounting team on variance analysis.
    • Finance team on monthly Finance deck.
    • Operations team to provide unit economics analysis.
    • Department leaders on forecast updates from prior months results.
  • Provide monthly analysis of SaaS metrics and peer benchmarking.
  • Ad-hoc analysis as required.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING
  • 4+ years of experience in Finance with ideally 2+ years of FP&A experience within a SaaS company.
  • A Bachelor's degree in finance, statistics, economics, business or other related fields.
  • Experience with financial planning software (e.g. Adaptive Planning) and BI tools (e.g. Tableau).
  • A passion to help others make informed decisions driven by ROI and storytelling with numbers.
  • Ability to convey complex financial concepts to leaders across the organization.
  • Outstanding Excel / Google Sheets skills with the ability to manipulate large data sets.
  • Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).
  • Strong analytical capabilities.

Ideally you are:
  • A hyper-organized and detail-oriented professional.
  • An entrepreneurial spirit who thrives in fast-paced environments & adapts to change easily.
  • An expert project manager who can manage multiple projects at various stages simultaneously.

The base salary for this role ranges from $107,944 - $134,930 + bonus + benefits. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

About MURAL

MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration. It enables people and organizations to work together visually, solve complex problems and design innovative products, services and experiences. MURAL's platform and services enable innovative teams to think and collaborate visually to solve important problems. The company has more than 7,000 customers and partners, including IBM, USAA, E-Trade, Intuit, SAP, Atlassian, Autodesk, and GitHub. MURAL is headquartered in San Francisco and employs over 300 people globally.
Learn more about MURAL
Size
300 employees
Industry
Founded
2011

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