FP&A Senior Analyst

Title: FP&A Senior Analyst

Location: Remote India

Reports To: Director FP&A

Schedule: 2PM-11PM IST

About HighLevel: HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1,000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home. To learn more about HighLevel, check out our website and the announcement highlighting our recent investment from General Atlantic.

Our Website -https://www.gohighlevel.com/ 

YouTube Channel -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFiV4qDX5ipE-DQcsm1j4g 

Blog Post -https://blog.gohighlevel.com/general-atlantic-joins-highlevel/ 

Our Customers: HighLevel serves a diverse customer base, including over 60K agencies & entrepreneurs and 450K million businesses globally. Our customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises, spanning various industries and sectors.

Scale at HighLevel: We work at scale; our infrastructure handles around 3 Billion+ API hits & 2 Billion+ message events monthly and over 25M views of customer pages daily. We also handle over 80 Terabytes of data across 5 Databases.

Who You Are

HighLevel is seeking a FP&A Senior Analyst to join our growing Finance team. This role offers the opportunity to work at a fast-growing SaaS company and play a key role in supporting our financial reporting, planning, and other ad-hoc analysis that will influence the company’s growth / profitability. We are looking for someone with strong analytical and problem solving skills, with a keen eye for establishing new processes / improving existing processes to elevate how Finance supports the business. This role will report directly to our Director of FP&A.

What You Will Do

Financial Reporting

- Assist with the month-end financial consolidation process, delivering accurate and timely reporting of financial results

- Analyze financial results, identify trends and develop budget vs. actuals commentary, connecting results and KPIs to provide senior leadership visibility into drivers of business performance

- Partner directly with the US based Accounting team to ensure correct accounting treatment of transactional activities

Financial Planning

- Support our bi-annual planning processes, including (i) owning input templates for budget owners, (ii) incorporating forecast data into our financial planning tool (Adaptive Insights) and (iii) preparing summary views of financial statements and articulating key drivers of growth and/or profitability 

- Prepare executive-level summaries of our financial plans, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure business priorities are reflected in our forecast

- Identify and execute opportunities to improve our forecasting accuracy or efficiency through the use of new tools or process improvement

- Develop and maintain processes related to hiring, headcount tracking, etc. to ensure accurate financial reporting / hiring manager support

Ad-hoc Analysis / Systems Ownership

- Support data-driven decision making both within the Finance organization and for other non-financial stakeholders through ad-hoc reporting / projects 

- Serve as a primary owner for our financial planning tool, Adaptive Insights and incorporating necessary adjustments or changes to our financial plans via the tool

• Chartered Accountant or an MBA from a tier 1 Institute
• 3+ years of prior experience, ideally in FP&A or corporate finance at a high-growth tech / SaaS company, or investment banking / private equity 
• Experience of having worked in a global organization with peers in multiple countries and timezones.
• Demonstrated track record of financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis
• Excellent communication and presentation skills - both written and verbal - with an ability to summarize data / financial information for non-financial stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment while also meeting team deadlines
• Solid problem solving ability and experience working through ambiguity or unknown datasets
• Strong work ethic and with a willingness to challenge the status quo / find better or more efficient ways to deliver results
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, with experience using Adaptive Insights planning tool

EEO Statement

At HighLevel, we value diversity. In fact, we understand it makes our organization stronger. We are committed to inclusive hiring/promotion practices that evaluate skill sets, abilities and qualifications without regard to any characteristic unrelated to performing the job at the highest level. Our objective is to foster an environment where really talented employees from all walks of life can be their true and whole selves, cherished and welcomed for their differences, while providing awesome service to our clients and learning from one another along the way!