Strategic Finance Analyst

• A suite of analytics and observability tools, including product analytics, replay vision, AI observability, and error tracking

We are:

1. Product-led. More than 500K organizations have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.

Things we care about

• Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook. Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.

Job Summary

Help us understand how PostHog grows, what that growth costs, and what we should plan for next. Working directly with our Finance team, you’ll own the day-to-day consolidated financial model, expense planning, and board reporting, with their guidance. You’ll explain differences between actual results and plans, partner with team leads on hiring and spending decisions, and ask thoughtful questions that challenge our assumptions.

What you’ll be doing

• Corporate planning and consolidation

  • Maintain the integrated three-statement forecast: income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow. Keep actuals, assumptions, and scenarios consistent and easy to follow.

  • Own the quarterly board pack and investor reporting. Report costs versus plan each month and explain what changed. Support fundraising analysis when needed.

• Operating expenses and business partnering

  • Work with team leads to track hiring and vendor spending. Update the forecast each month and explain changes.

  • Set up monthly planning reviews so team leads can see their spending outlook and discuss changes.

• Revenue and commercial analysis

  • Support Mine's revenue modeling, check inputs and calculations, document assumptions, and explain performance versus plan.

  • Run the weekly revenue update when Mine is out.

• Example public issues/projects:
  The models and board materials are internal. These links provide public context for example projects.

  • Build a consolidated forecast and monthly reporting pack. Public context: Finance team

  • Build a headcount and vendor-spend forecast that shows what changed each month and which decisions need review. Public context: Spending money

  • Build an infrastructure cost forecast and show how cost per product changes as usage grows. Public context: Pricing and usage-based products

What you won't be doing

❌ Sales Ops execution (deal desk, contracts, credits/refunds, commission calculations, policy implementation)

❌ Accounting close, revenue recognition, collections, and the GL

❌ Billing-system engineering or ownership of the data platform. The analyst uses and checks these teams' outputs for planning.

Requirements

• Build and debug an integrated three-statement model in Excel or Google Sheets. Make assumptions explicit, add checks, and test scenarios.

• Turn an unclear business question into a model. Separate facts from assumptions and explain which inputs drive the answer.

• Reconcile model outputs to source data and investigate discrepancies. Keep forecasts and reporting accurate and up to date.

• Explain why results differ from plan, get useful inputs from team leads, and follow up on missing information.

• Ask questions, challenge assumptions constructively, and want to learn how a software business works.

• AI is part of how you work. You use tools to build and check models, write SQL, and automate reporting, and you can show us examples of this.

• Work in a small team where processes are still being built.

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