Senior Financial Analyst

Universal Audio, Inc.

$135K — $145K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience as a finance partner for Sales, Revenue, or Go-to-Market (GTM) teams.
  • Skilled in building complex revenue forecast models across sales channels.
  • Familiarity with pricing and promotional analysis methodologies.
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets for financial modeling.
  • Experience with ERP systems like NetSuite or similar.
  • Hands-on knowledge of enterprise planning platforms like Adaptive Insights.
  • Excellent communication skills to convey financial insights to non-financial audiences.
  • Highly organized with the ability to handle multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Own revenue forecasting across diverse commercial segments.
  • Maintain and enhance rolling forecast models capturing financial dynamics.
  • Collaborate with Sales leadership to convert metrics into forecasts.
  • Create and present weekly sales reports with actionable insights.
  • Lead monthly variance analysis and communicate findings clearly.
  • Develop dashboards for real-time performance visibility.
  • Identify and communicate risks and opportunities in the commercial portfolio.

Benefits

  • Profit sharing.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401K Safe Harbor contribution.
  • Stock options.
  • Flexible paid time off including sick leave and company holidays.
Full Job Description
Department: Financial Planning and Analysis

Location: Scotts Valley, CA (Hybrid)

We are looking for a commercially minded finance professional to serve as the dedicated FP&A partner for our Commercial and Go-to-Market (GTM) organizations. This role sits at the intersection of revenue strategy and financial discipline, supporting two distinct sales motions: Channel Hardware & Software Sales and Direct Online Software & Subscription Sales. You will also play a key role in standing up financial support for our new Direct-to-Consumer Online Store as we expand our GTM footprint.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact role. Your primary partners will be the SVP of Growth & Transformation and the VP of Worldwide Sales, and your work will directly inform how the company invests in and prioritizes its commercial activities.

Responsibilities

Revenue forecasting & financial planning
  • Own end-to-end revenue forecasting across all commercial segments, including Channel Hardware, Channel Software, Direct Online Software & Subscriptions, and the DTC Hardware store.
  • Maintain and continuously improve rolling forecast models that capture topline revenue, selling expenses, marketing activities, and the key drivers behind each.
  • Partner with Sales and GTM leadership to translate key inbound metrics to reliable and accurate financial projections.

Reporting & performance management
  • Produce and present weekly sales flash reports with clear, actionable commentary for commercial and finance leadership.
  • Lead monthly actual vs. forecast variance analysis, identifying root causes and communicating findings in plain business language.
  • Build and maintain dashboards and reporting tools that give commercial teams real-time visibility into performance against plan.

Insights, risks & opportunities
  • Proactively surface risks and opportunities within the commercial portfolio, bringing data-driven recommendations to the GTM and Finance leadership.
  • Act as a trusted thought partner to GTM leadership - going beyond the numbers to provide strategic context, business perspective, insights, and recommendations.
  • Support territory, account, and channel level Sales views and expense planning as needed to inform GTM investment decisions.

Pricing & promotional analysis
  • Conduct pricing and promotional analyses to evaluate margin impact, competitive positioning, and revenue lift.
  • Participate in pricing review and approval workflows, ensuring proposals are financially sound and aligned with company objectives.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, and Sales to model scenarios and support go-to-market pricing decisions.


Qualifications
  • Demonstrated experience supporting Sales, Revenue, or GTM organizations in a business partner capacity.
  • Track record of building and managing complex revenue forecast models, preferably across multiple sales channels or business models (SaaS, hardware, DTC, or similar).
  • Experience with pricing and promotional analysis is a plus.
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel and/or Google Sheets; comfortable building sophisticated models from scratch.
  • Experience with NetSuite or a comparable ERP system.
  • Hands-on experience with Adaptive Insights, or a similar enterprise planning platform.
  • Strong communication skills - you can translate complex financial analysis into clear narratives for non-finance audiences.
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple work streams and deadlines simultaneously.


Education/Experience
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • 5-7 years of experience as a strong individual contributor with deep modeling and analytical capability and executing independently on defined work streams and proactively identifies insights

UA Salary Range of Pay: $135,000 - $145,000

Base salary/hourly rate of pay will be based on the cost of labor for the city/state in which the new hire resides, at the time of hire.

UA offers competitive benefits: Profit sharing, Medical/Dental/Vision, 401K Safe Harbor Contribution, Stock Options, Flexible time-off (PTO/Sick Leave/Company Holiday Time-off), etc.

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