The board
Benchling · Finance- Pay
- $119K – $150K • Offers Equity
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Posted
- Sep 22
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.
What you'd do
- 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
What they want
- 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.