Strategic Financial Analyst (GTM/Sales Business Partner)

Join Benchling as a Strategic Financial Analyst, where you'll play a crucial role in supporting the Sales organization. You'll be responsible for the monthly and quarterly close process, budgeting and forecasting, sales performance analysis, and expense management. This high-impact role requires strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of financial modeling and FP&A best practices.

• Ownership of the monthly and quarterly close process, budgeting and forecasting, sales performance analysis, and expense management.
• Building and maintaining full year budgets and quarterly forecasts for various Field Organizations, delivering monthly/quarterly analyses of financial results.
• Partnering with business leaders to drive strategic initiatives influencing business decisions and providing proactive recommendations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics or equivalent area
• Proficiency in Excel/Sheets and a planning tool (Adaptive, Anaplan, or equivalent) required. Salesforce and Certinia experience is a strong plus
• Strong understanding and substantial knowledge of complex financial modeling, GAAP accounting and FP&A best practices
• 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 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