Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Financial Analyst role stands out in SaaS because it connects core strategic finance work with the practical adoption of AI tooling inside FP&A. Rather than treating automation as a side project, the remit positions finance as an operator of internal systems, dashboards, and executive reporting that can keep pace with product-led revenue models and the reporting cadence typical of subscription businesses.
For a long-term SaaS finance career, the value is in building fluency across the metrics and mechanics that matter in modern software companies, from ARR and bookings modeling to services margin and capacity planning. The emphasis on rebuilding spreadsheet-heavy workflows into scalable, automated processes also develops a systems mindset that transfers well across SaaS organizations as finance teams increasingly partner with data, engineering, and operations to improve decision velocity and forecast reliability.
The role is best suited to an analyst who prefers cross-functional problem solving over narrow reporting ownership, and who is motivated by turning ambiguous questions into structured models and repeatable insights. It will fit someone ready to operate with senior stakeholders while staying close to the details of tooling, data quality, and model governance in an enterprise SaaS context.
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 Role & Team
We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Strategic Finance team and play a key role in transforming how finance operates in the AI era.
This role sits at the intersection of business partnership, financial modeling, and AI-driven automation. In addition to owning core G&A finance partnership responsibilities, you will help develop next-generation financial models, systems, dashboards, and executive reporting powered by modern AI tools such as Claude Co-Work, Lovable, and Glean. You will help lead an organization-wide push into AI within Finance and play a key role in expanding what is possible as the technology evolves.
This is a high-impact, highly visible role that works closely with senior leadership and offers the opportunity to redefine how FP&A operates at scale. The role is highly cross-functional and requires close collaboration with Sales Operations, IT, AI Transformation, Corporate Engineering, and Enterprise Data & Insights.
As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will:
- Strategic G&A Finance Partnership
- Serve as the primary FP&A partner to G&A functions, including Finance, Legal, People, and Accounting
- Act as a strategic partner to the CFO and CHRO to support planning, resource allocation, and long-term decision-making
- Lead annual planning, monthly and quarterly forecasts, and variance analysis across the G&A organization
- Build the Next-Generation, AI-Native Finance Stack
- Own and evolve core financial models, including:
- Services P&L, margin, and capacity models
- PLG ARR, bookings, and revenue models
- Ad hoc models related to scenario analysis, sales pipeline, pricing, margin, and churn
- Automate and modernize existing models, reporting workflows, and executive reporting packages using AI tools such as Claude Co-Work, Excel plugins, PowerPoint plugins, and Lovable
- Rebuild legacy Excel-based processes into scalable, automated systems
- Analytics & Executive Reporting
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- Design and build advanced dashboards that deliver actionable insights to executives, including helping migrate and modernize existing Tableau dashboards
- Automate recurring reporting and board materials, including AI-assisted presentation development
- Improve visibility into business performance through better data models, dashboards, and tooling
- Automate manual spreadsheet- and SQL-based reconciliation workflows
- Ad Hoc Analysis & Strategic Projects
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- Track, analyze, and communicate AI-related spend and investment trends, including inference costs
- Develop models to evaluate the ROI of AI investments and emerging monetization opportunities
- Support high-priority analytical projects and strategic decision-making across Finance
You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:
- A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field
- 4+ years of finance or related experience, 2+ years in corporate FP&A or BI/Analtyics preferred
- Experience using AI tools to automate processes, reporting, or analysis
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, with a high degree of rigor and attention to detail
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to build relationships and partner effectively across all levels of the organization
- Experience in Enterprise SaaS is preferred
Our values:
At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:
- Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
- Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
- Growth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
- Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.
We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.
Some of our benefit programs include:
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
- Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more
- Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more
- Excellent Parental benefits including: 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
- Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Other fun facts about Amplitude:
- Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
- We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
- We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
- We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
- We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
- We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
- Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.
Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $121,000 - $181,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
