Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Why this Role is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Strategic finance roles like this sit at the center of how SaaS businesses translate product and go to market activity into measurable outcomes. The scope described, spanning revenue model ownership, investment evaluation, and cross functional partnership, signals work that is tightly coupled to recurring revenue mechanics and the operating cadence typical of established SaaS teams.
For SaaS career development, the value is in learning how growth is actually governed: how targets are set, how efficiency is quantified, and how tradeoffs are made across Sales, Product, and Marketing. Owning models and building decision frameworks creates durable experience that carries across SaaS companies, particularly where forecasting, unit economics, and ROI discipline shape planning cycles and resource allocation.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the team and role
The Financial Planning & Strategy (FP&S) team improves strategic decision-making through deep cross-functional partnership, financial and strategic analyses, and domain expertise. We proactively identify opportunities to fuel growth toward Checkr’s goals and drive the highest impact outcomes.
We are looking for a Strategic Finance Senior Analyst. We focus on delivering actionable insights into business performance and optimizing resource allocation to accelerate growth. This person will play a pivotal role in how we scale our growth businesses.
What you’ll do
- Model Ownership: Own revenue models that set goals and measure performance for a key Checkr line of business or segment.
- Business Partnership: Collaborate with cross-functional partners across Sales, Product, Marketing, Analytics and more.
- Strategy: Assess and define our existing and potential future strategic priorities. Quantitatively validate and drive influence toward the highest revenue impact and ROI initiatives.
- Insights: Proactively deliver data-driven insights and recommendations that inform go-to-market tactics, product features and experiments, and other cross-functional roadmaps. Develop frameworks for how we evaluate and track investment success, including sales efficiency and productivity. Collaborate with our Data Analytics team to build predictive and automated analytics.
- Strategic Planning: Contribute to our long-range and annual planning processes, including the strategic plan that positions us to accomplish our goals.
What you bring
- 4+ years of experience. Foundational experience in investment banking, private equity, or strategic finance/business operations is preferred. Experience with consumption-based business models is a meaningful plus.
- Proven track record of driving business outcomes through data analytics and financial insights.
- Expert-level modeling ability, translating complex business drivers into clear frameworks.
- Demonstrated examples of strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Experience with Salesforce, BI tools (ie. Looker), and SQL.
- Have a hustler mindset. You take a proactive approach to identifying opportunities and problems to tackle.
- Thrive in an environment where you will be asked to own an ambiguous project that you have not done before.
What you’ll get
- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive cash and equity compensation and opportunity for advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
- Flexible PTO policy
- Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend
