Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Collibra is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join their Finance Team, specifically the FP&A team responsible for driving strategic financial decisions. In this role, you will partner with the R&D organization to manage budgets, forecast financials, and provide insights that shape product investment decisions.
Responsibilities
- Own the annual budget and rolling forecasts for the R&D organization, including engineering headcount, contractor spend, software and tooling, and allocated infrastructure costs
- Serve as the day-to-day finance partner for R&D fielding budget questions, modeling one-off scenarios, and providing financial clarity for leadership decisions
- Build business case models for R&D investments, new product development, platform initiatives, and major capability builds including projected costs, revenue assumptions, and payback periods
- Model investment tradeoffs for R&D leadership and track actual performance of approved investments against their original business cases
- Support growth and profitability target-setting by modeling how R&D investment levels translate into product capability timelines and downstream revenue potential
- Own cloud hosting cost reporting and forecasting tracking actuals by product line against budget and maintaining a forward-looking model that reflects planned usage growth
- Identify optimization opportunities across the cloud portfolio idle resources, over-provisioned environments, and commitment vs. on-demand mix and partner with engineering on cost implications of architectural decisions
- Build and maintain a product-level P&L for key product lines covering ARR, recognized revenue, gross margin, and associated R&D and GTM investment
- Contribute product line P&L, ARR, and pipeline performance to executive and board-level reporting
Skills
- 5–8 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a closely related analytical role in a SaaS or technology company; experience supporting R&D and GTM finance is a strong plus
- Demonstrated experience with core FP&A disciplines budgeting, forecasting, headcount modeling, and variance analysis preferably with R&D cost structures
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure economics and the ability to build cost models around cloud hosting portfolios
- Deep understanding of SaaS revenue metrics ARR, NRR, pipeline velocity, close rates, gross margin, CAC, LTV and the ability to build rigorous, defensible models and narratives around them
- Experience building and owning product-level P&L models, including revenue, COGS, gross margin, and investment allocation
- Practically AI-enabled you actively use AI tools as part of your day-to-day workflow, whether for financial modeling, research, data analysis, or drafting, and you bring the judgment to validate outputs and know when to trust them
- Proven ability to work in environments where data is incomplete, definitions are still being established, or infrastructure is maturing and the judgment to produce credible, actionable analysis anyway
- A clear and confident communicator who can translate complex financial analysis into narratives for non-finance audiences and who brings a point of view, not just a deliverable
- Comfortable producing clear, structured analysis in environments where data is incomplete or definitions are still evolving
- Familiar with applying cloud infrastructure cost frameworks to unit economics and product-level profitability analysis
- Skilled at building financial models that can be translated for non-finance stakeholders
- Familiar with applying AI tools to day-to-day analytical work research, modeling, or drafting with the judgment to validate the outputs
- Demonstrates a proactive business partnering style engaging stakeholders early, anticipating questions, and bringing recommendations rather than waiting to be asked
Benefits
- Bonus potential
- Equity for eligible roles
- A Flex Fund monthly stipend
- Pension/401k plans
- Competitive total rewards package
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