Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Senior FP&A roles are a core lever in SaaS because subscription businesses live and die by forecast accuracy, disciplined spend, and clear visibility into GTM efficiency. This position sits close to those mechanics, partnering across Sales, GTM, and corporate functions while reporting to a VP of Finance, which signals meaningful proximity to decision-making in a data-driven SaaS environment. The added emphasis on modernising finance through automation and AI reflects a broader shift in SaaS operators toward faster, more self-serve insight generation.
For a SaaS finance career, the value here is breadth. Supporting planning, headcount, and operating expense management across multiple functions builds fluency in how recurring-revenue companies translate pipeline activity and capacity plans into budgets and targets. The remit also includes building models, dashboards, and executive reporting, which strengthens the analytical toolkit that transfers well across SaaS stages, from scaling GTM teams to tightening unit economics.
This role suits an analyst who enjoys business partnering as much as modelling, and who is comfortable turning ambiguous questions into structured analyses. It is a strong fit for someone looking for high-visibility work, frequent stakeholder interaction, and hands-on ownership of planning and reporting systems in a 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 Financial Planning & Analysis team and play a key role in business partnering while helping transform how Finance operates in the AI era.
Reporting directly to the VP of Finance, this role will support financial planning, forecasting, and strategic decision-making across Sales, GTM, and corporate functions. You will partner closely with business leaders to drive headcount planning, operating expense management, financial analysis, and reporting that helps teams make informed investment decisions.
This is a highly visible role with broad exposure across the organization, providing the opportunity to influence key business decisions, build relationships with senior stakeholders, and develop a deep understanding of how a high-growth SaaS company operates. As part of our AI Transformation, you will also help identify opportunities to leverage new technologies, automate processes, and improve how Finance delivers insights and operates at scale.
As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will:
Strategic Finance Partnership
- Partner with Sales, GTM, and Corporate Function (Finance/HR/Legal) leaders to provide financial insights, analysis, and recommendations that support strategic decision-making and business performance.
- Support GTM financial analysis, including operating expense management, headcount planning, resource allocation, and performance reporting to help leaders optimize investments.
- Develop and maintain financial models and analytics that provide visibility into key business drivers, trends, and opportunities across Sales, GTM, and G&A functions.
- Lead annual planning, monthly and quarterly forecasting, and variance analysis while communicating insights and recommendations to Finance and business leaders.
- Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting, and analysis by leveraging automation, AI tools, and new technologies.
Analytics & Executive Reporting
- Improve visibility into business performance through better data models, dashboards, and tooling
- Design and build advanced dashboards that deliver actionable insights to executives
- Automate recurring reporting, including AI-assisted presentation development
- 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 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)
