Join Benchling as a Strategic Financial Analyst to support the Sales organization with budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
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Requirements
- Experience
- 2–5 years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Strategic Financial Analyst at Benchling plays a crucial role in supporting the Sales organization through detailed financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting. This position requires expertise in FP&A, strong financial modeling skills, and proficiency in tools like Excel and planning software, ideally with a background in SaaS. It is well-suited for candidates with 2-5 years of relevant experience who can effectively communicate complex data to influence business decisions. Benchling emphasizes AI fluency, integrating it into daily operations to drive impactful results.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- Is the Strategic Financial Analyst, GTM role remote?
- It's hybrid — Benchling expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA.
- How much experience is required?
- 2–5 years of relevant experience for this Strategic Financial Analyst, GTM role.
- Where is the role based?
- Benchling is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Adaptive, Anaplan, Certinia, Excel, Salesforce.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Benchling targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Strategic Financial Analyst, GTM role at Benchling.
From the original posting
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are looking for a detail-oriented and analytically strong Financial Analyst to join our Strategic Finance team, reporting to the Strategic Finance Leader for the Field. This is a high-impact, execution-focused role at the core of how we support the Sales organization — you'll own the monthly and quarterly close process, budgeting and forecasting, sales performance analysis (including commission payout reconciliation), and expense management. The foundation of this role is rigorous FP&A work: getting the numbers right, surfacing the right insights, and building the operational infrastructure that lets the business run well.
Please note: This is an in-office/hybrid role requiring regular on-site presence in San Francisco; only candidates currently living in the area will be considered.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Build and maintain full year budgets and quarterly forecasts for various Field Organizations (Sales, Solution Consulting, Sales Operations & Enablement, and Marketing)
Deliver monthly/quarterly analyses of financial results including BvA variances to plan, ensuring key issues, risks and business drivers are understood and proactively highlighted
Support commissions calculations and reporting, analytics and support annual comp plan design
Support the company-wide annual and long-range planning processes
Partner with Accounting on monthly close activities such as vendor trend reviews, closed-won opportunities, collections, and commissions payments
Develop and continually improve sales and customer metrics (revenue, ARR, ASP, seat penetration, quota attainment etc.)
Partner with business leaders to drive strategic initiatives influencing business decisions and by providing proactive recommendations, backed by strong business and financial analysis
Drive ad-hoc projects and analysis to support Benchling’s long-term growth
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics or equivalent area.
2–5 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience, with at least 2 years supporting a Sales, Marketing or GTM org at a SaaS company.
Strong understanding and substantial knowledge of complex financial modeling, GAAP accounting and FP&A best practices
Strong Communication Skills - ability to think logically, rationally, and strategically in order to distill and articulate complex data to drive business decisions. Experience presenting analyses to management and ability to lead and drive initiatives
Proficiency in Excel/Sheets and a planning tool (Adaptive, Anaplan, or equivalent) required. Salesforce and Certinia experience is a strong plus.
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