Senior Financial Analyst, Strategic Finance - R&D

Company Overview

With over 2 million developers worldwide, Netlify is leading the transition to modern Jamstack-based web development. By uniting the ecosystem of developer tools and technologies, Netlify makes it easier than ever to build, deploy, and scale web applications

We are excited to announce our most recent Series D fundraise of $105M led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from our existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, BOND, EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Mango Capital and Menlo Ventures with an overall $2B valuation.

Though our team is growing fast, we’ve managed to stay tight-knit while welcoming newcomers to the fold. We hail from around the globe with diverse backgrounds, we’re ~40% woman or non-binary, and are composed of 29 different nationalities.

We aim to create a company culture of empowerment where the best idea can come from anywhere, as we believe that empowered and engaged team members do the best work. We strive to be thoughtful, caring, and collaborative in our work within and across teams. We’ll be giving you the tools you need to succeed and looking to you for suggestions for improvement—not just in your daily job, but in many other aspects of building a company.

About the Opportunity:

Netlify is growing its Strategic Finance team to supporting the growing needs of its rapidly expanding R&D organization. This is a business partnership role that will focus on supporting Engineering and Product; helping forecast revenue and cost impact of new products, create frameworks to assess ROI of new and existing products, lead the development of staffing models for R&D, manage our cloud expense forecasts and working with senior leadership on budget management and tracking.

This is a high impact role, with deliverables used by senior leadership, our board of directors and prospective investors to drive financial and investment decisions.

What is my role?

• Partner with Engineering and Product Leadership to develop cost analysis frameworks for new and existing products

• Lead development of pricing frameworks for new products

• Drive monthly/quarterly forecasts for R&D expenses, including our cloud infrastructure costs

• Develop and implement ROI metrics for new and existing products

• Develop public company benchmarks to analyze R&D and cloud spend

• Work closely with R&D leadership to manage headcount and program budgets

• Develop budget tracking reports for department leadership

What You'll Bring:

• 4+ years of experience with a mix of consulting, investment banking and PE/VC and high-growth SaaS experience

• Strong knowledge of accounting and financial modeling

• Excellent analytical skills with attention to detail

• Advanced MS Excel/Google Sheets skills and experience working with large datasets

• Strong critical thinking skills and a problem solving mindset

• Ability to developing financial frameworks to answer abstract business questions

• Strong initiative, intellectual curiosity and attention to detail

• A mind for process development and process automation

• SQL experience a plus

• Prior experience supporting R&D

• Bachelor’s degree or MBA

Within 1 month, you'll:

• Meet the finance team and business partners, and become deeply familiar with Netlify's service and revenue model!

• Become familiar with our product road map and meet with product managers leading development of new products

• Dive deep into Netlify's financial model and learn about our reporting cadence and process

• Become familiar with the various software systems used by Netlify (e.g., payroll, customer billing, expense management, sales reporting, headcount management) and flow of information across these systems

• Become familiar with our cloud expense model and key expense drivers

Within 3 months, you'll:

• Work closely with our product team to develop a scalable frameworks to assess revenue and cost impacts of new products

• Kick off development of the product ROI frameworks and cost efficiency KPIs

• Create a scalable process to update department budgets for monthly review with R&D leadership and start leading budget review meetings

• Develop a staffing model for our engineering pod structure

• Take ownership of our cloud expense forecasting model

Within 6 months, you'll:

• Proudly reflect on all the great work you have done this far!

• Implement revenue and cost assessment frameworks of new products and integrate the results into Netlify's operating model

• Create process to track actual versus projected results of product launches

• Lead product ROI analysis and create a repeatable process to measure changes in product ROI

• Other projects as they come up, lots of opportunity to take ownership of various processes

About Netlify

Of everything we've ever built at Netlify, we are most proud of our team.

We believe that empowered and engaged colleagues do their best work. We’ll be giving you the tools you need to succeed and looking to you for suggestions to improve not just in your daily job, but every aspect of building a company. As a distributed-first organization we want to make sure wherever our team is we find inventive ways to collaborate, debate, and learn from each other.

To learn a bit more about our team and who we are, make sure to visit our about page.

Applying

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please apply anyway!

When applying please include: A resume or short listing of your job history & skills. (A link to a LinkedIn profile would be fine). A cover letter explaining why you would enjoy working in this role and why you’d like to work at Netlify would be great, though not required & will not impact your application. When we receive your application we’ll get back to you about the next steps.

Netlify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are devoted to building a team of people with diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. We believe that the unique contributions of all Netlifolks is the driver of our success. We are all responsible for bringing on people from all walks of life. Driving equality empowers our team, enables us to innovate, and helps us maintain a more inclusive environment. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, race, military/veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy status, or any other differences. If we can do anything to provide a better interview, i.e. accommodate a disability, then please let us know.