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Senior Finance Analyst

🇺🇸 Natick, MA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $101K - $157K

💻 Finance

🗓️ December 30th, 2025

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MathWorks is hiring a Senior Finance Analyst. The role involves leading planning and forecasting efforts, building advanced financial models, and delivering actionable insights to support business decisions and growth strategies. The analyst will collaborate across teams and present findings to senior and executive leadership.

Highlights
  • Lead annual planning and periodic forecasting processes focused on sales bookings and quota.
  • Analyze financial and non-financial metrics such as ARR, churn, CAC, LTV, and customer trends to provide data-driven recommendations.
  • Develop and maintain dynamic financial models using Anaplan and Snowflake for scenario planning and business optimization.
  • Collaborate with Sales Operations and other teams to validate assumptions and ensure model accuracy.
  • Create dashboards and visualizations with Power BI to communicate insights clearly to senior leadership.
  • Identify opportunities to automate processes and improve forecasting accuracy.
  • Salary range: $101,200 - $156,900.
  • Requires a bachelor's degree with 6 years of experience, or a master's degree with 3 years of experience, or equivalent.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel and financial analysis.
  • Additional skills include advanced Excel modeling, experience with FP&A platforms like Anaplan, Power BI for visualization, strong data interpretation, and effective communication skills.

Senior Finance Analyst Full Description

Senior Finance Analyst


Job Summary
We are seeking a strategic and analytical Senior Analyst to drive planning, forecasting, and insights that shape business decisions in a dynamic environment. This hands-on role combines advanced analytics, scenario modeling, and business partnering to influence growth strategies and optimize performance. You will have visibility across the organization and the opportunity to present findings to senior and executive leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Planning & Forecasting: Act as a key contributor to the annual planning process, focusing on the quota and sales bookings portion of the financial model. Participate in periodic forecasting process and analyzing actual results from different perspectives to help drive sales forecasting accuracy.
  • Deliver Actionable Insights: Analyze financial and non-financial metrics, including ARR, churn, CAC, LTV, customer trends, and product performance, to provide management with clear, data-driven recommendations.
  • Build Advanced Models: Develop and maintain dynamic financial models for scenario planning, predictive analytics, and business optimization using tools such as Anaplan and Snowflake.
  • Partner Across the Business: Collaborate with Sales Operations and other teams to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure financial models accurately reflect business drivers and company performance metrics.
  • Enhance Reporting & Visualization: Create dashboards and visualizations using tools like Power BI to communicate insights effectively to senior leadership.
  • Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to automate processes, improve forecasting accuracy, and enhance the efficiency of FP&A operations.

Minimum Qualifications
  • A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or equivalent experience) is required.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
  • Experience with financial analysis

Additional Qualifications
  • Technical Skills: Advanced Excel modeling; proficiency in FP&A platforms (such as Anaplan) experience with data visualization tools (Power BI).
  • Analytical Expertise: Strong ability to interpret complex data sets and translate insights into actionable strategies.
  • Communication: Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills to influence senior stakeholders.
  • Mindset: Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving business environment.