Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

Join Vanta's Strategic Finance team as a Senior Financial Analyst, GTM and become a financial liaison between the team and go-to-market functions. You will play a key role in budgeting, forecasting, providing strategic guidance, and completing various projects related to investments in marketing, sales, post-sales, and partnerships. This role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, exhibiting financial expertise, delivering strategic insights, critical thinking, and delivering results. Success in this role demands experience in corporate finance or investment banking, strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and teamwork. Vanta offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, flexible work arrangements, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Experience: 4+ years of corporate finance, investment banking or comparable experience with fast-paced start-up (ideally SaaS) in Strategic Finance or FP&A
• Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs/Sheets/Slides
• Analytical Mindset: Strong capability to tackle projects, extract key insights, and translate them into actionable strategies that drive business impact
• Teamwork: Ability to work effectively and establish relationships with business partners
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying financial insights in a comprehensible and engaging manner
• Accountability: Be highly entrepreneurial and comfortable owning your work in a fast-paced environment
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, or other analytical discipline

Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross-functionally: Act as a trusted Finance partner for go-to-market teams and their leaders. Enable key stakeholders on insights produced and provide recommendations to improve business outcomes
• Exhibit financial expertise: Help drive the budget, operating model, and long-term financial plan for Vanta go-to-market initiatives
• Deliver strategic insights: Lead financial efforts and provide insights on various projects such as sales team resourcing and forecasting, return on investment for marketing spend, top-line ARR and KPI reporting, and external benchmarking
• Think critically: Identify topics that merit further investigation and utilize data and frameworks to provide new perspective
• Deliver results: Prepare recommendations on incremental investment opportunities by weighing financial and strategic trade-offs

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus for experience in SQL and NetSuite
• Bonus for experience partnering with go-to-market functions

Benefits

• Industry-competitive compensation
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours and location
• Open PTO policy
• 11 paid holidays in the US
• Offices in SF, NYC, Dublin, Sydney, and London