Senior Financial Analyst

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.

Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we'll build together.

About the Finance Team

The Thumbtack Finance team's mission is to be a strategic finance partner to the business to enable better business decisions that are supported by data while building a world class finance function and to do it all with integrity.

About the role

The Senior Financial Analyst will partner with various leaders at Thumbtack to help manage and grow the business. The company is growing at a rapid pace and you will play an important role providing thought partnership and decision support to many new initiatives. This role reports to the Finance Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A).

What you'll do

• Drive the monthly, annual forecasts and budgets for all opex spend, highlighting insightful variance analysis and implications to forecast
• Forecast accurately, not only aligning on assumptions with stakeholders, but understanding what, where, and why we spend
• Evaluate trade offs and financial sensitivities leading to better decision making and scenario planning
• Provide front line support for ad hoc financial analysis requests and inquiries, presenting and visualizing data and insights
• Develop efficiency metrics to help inform growth and set financial context
• Establish and maintain trusting relationships with all key stakeholders
• Reconcile HC for organization 
• Partner closely with business partners to understand their needs and develop effective and strategic cost management solutions
• Support Sales team to ensure accuracy and alignment of commissions

In order to be successful, you must bring

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field
• 6+ years of relevant financial analysis work experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or management consulting
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, using key tools within Excel and G-Suite
• Adopts a constant improvement mindset and applies towards making processes & procedures more efficient
• Strong understanding of/ exposure to US GAAP or IFRS
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills 
• Proven ability to collaborate cross functionally
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with stakeholders across the organization

Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law. 

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