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 the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next.
About the Role
This is a hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. Mixpanel is seeking a high-impact Strategic Finance Associate to serve as a domain owner within our Financial Planning and Analysis team. This role is a trusted advisor to functional leaders across the business, owning the end-to-end financial planning process for a major domain and driving the 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 that others follow.
- 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 that reduce rework across teams.
- 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 — not just operate within them — 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 working with BI tools, FP&A platforms, and ERP systems; comfortable specifying data needs and improving data quality upstream.
- Excellent communication skills — can distill complex financial analysis into crisp narratives tailored to 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 consideration and benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance. Additional benefits: mental wellness benefit, generous vacation policy & additional company holidays, enhanced parental leave, volunteer time off, pre-tax benefits including 401(K), wellness benefit, holiday break.
Application Instructions
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