Senior Strategic Finance Associate - G&A
Mixpanel- Compensation
- $161k–$218k Published range
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco Bay Area or New York City Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Senior
About the job
About Mixpanel
Mixpanel is a leading product intelligence and analytics platform trusted by over 29,000 companies. The company combines analytics with AI to help teams understand user behavior and make data-driven decisions.
About the Role
Mixpanel is seeking a high-impact Strategic Finance Associate to serve as a domain owner within the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. This hybrid role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. The successful candidate will be a trusted advisor to functional leaders, owning the end-to-end financial planning process for a major domain and driving analytical rigor that shapes leadership decisions.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end financial planning process for G&A teams, from brief to delivery, setting quality standards and accountability mechanisms.
- Define the 6–12 month financial strategy for your domain, validating assumptions with business partners and translating strategy into financial outcomes and leading indicators.
- Build business cases for major investments with clear assumptions, risk quantification, and second-order effects.
- Design and improve planning processes, tooling, and data definitions to reduce rework and raise the quality of financial outputs.
- Lead cross-functional analyses with clear milestones and owners, resolving forecast disagreements with principled rationale and crisp financial narratives.
- Partner with functional budget owners to ensure data quality, metric consistency, and alignment on assumptions.
Qualifications
- 5–8 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience with focus on G&A in high-growth SaaS, with demonstrated ownership of a planning domain end-to-end.
- Proven ability to design planning processes and frameworks, and to influence decisions across teams without direct authority.
- Expert-level financial modeling skills; fluent in SaaS unit economics, driver-based forecasting, 3-statement modeling, and scenario/sensitivity analysis.
- Expertise across G&A; experience partnering with senior functional leaders on budget strategy and investment decisions.
- Strong SQL skills and experience with BI tools, FP&A platforms, and ERP systems.
- Excellent communication skills, able to distill complex financial analysis into crisp narratives for exec audiences.
- BS/BA in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA or CFA a plus.
- Experience with Pigment, Anaplan, or similar tool, ideally Pigment.
Compensation & Benefits
Total target cash compensation (TTCC) range: $160,500—$217,500 USD, including base and variable compensation. Eligible for equity and benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance. Additional benefits include mental wellness benefit, generous vacation policy, enhanced parental leave, volunteer time off, pre-tax benefits including 401(k), wellness benefit, and holiday break.
Application Instructions
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