Benchling

Strategic Financial Analyst (GTM/Sales Business Partner)

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago

Agentic AISalesforceSalesFinancial ModelingFinancial AnalysisAccountingForecastingBudgetingExcelFP&ACustomer SuccessCommunicationPublic SpeakingGAAP

About the role

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.
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.

Build and maintain full year budgets and quarterly forecasts for various Field Organizations (Sales, Solution Consulting, Sales Operations & Enablement, and Customer Success)
Deliver monthly/quarterly analyses of financial results including BvA variances to plan, ensuring key issues, risks and business drivers are understood and proactively highlighted
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

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 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.

Proficiency in Excel/Sheets and a planning tool (Adaptive, Anaplan, or equivalent) required.
Salesforce and Certinia experience is a strong plus.

When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits.
Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps.
AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years.
But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D.

Support commissions calculations and reporting, analytics and support annual comp plan design
Support the company-wide annual and long-range planning processes

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