Senior Financial Analyst, Strategic Finance

About the Role

Join GitLab's Strategic Finance team as a Senior Financial Analyst, focusing on high-impact strategic projects like long-range bookings forecasting, new product launches, and pricing strategy. This is an exciting opportunity for an analytical team player to drive financial insights and accelerate growth for new businesses from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Design long-range financial models to forecast GitLab’s bookings, analyzing ARR movement (new business, expansion, contraction, churn).
• Develop and implement new forecasting methodologies for various bookings-related models.
• Build business cases for new product offerings and partnerships, collaborating with stakeholders across Finance, Product, Sales Strategy, Marketing, and Engineering.
• Analyze product-related key performance indicators and develop new analyses on business health, assessing how adoption metrics impact bookings and future financial performance.
• Forecast GitLab’s New Business ARR and Customer Counts by geography and segment, setting pipeline targets for Marketing, Sales Development Reps, Account Executives, and Partners.
• Study GitLab’s competitive landscape and market opportunity, working with incubation engineering to identify emerging areas of market demand.
• Analyze GitLab’s unit economics across different customer segments and geographies.

Requirements

• 2-4 years of experience in Strategic Finance, Investment Banking, Private Equity/Venture Capital/Hedge Fund, or Management Consulting.
• Core foundational training in financial/economic theory, strategy, modeling, and managing organized processes with multiple stakeholders.
• Proven financial modeling skills with the ability to distill complex analyses into structured, actionable outputs.
• A strategic thinker with broad business acumen and a passion for software/SaaS.
• Self-starter with an ownership mentality who thrives in ambiguity and can deliver thoughtful, persuasive insights to executives.

About the Team and Role Impact

This role is a hybrid of top-line Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Strategy & Business Operations (BizOps), offering a unique opportunity to spot opportunities and risks across GitLab’s business. You will develop hypotheses, pressure test inputs, forecast outputs, and execute in-depth analyses to translate data into insights and make recommendations to leadership. You will work closely with the CFO and various business partners on financial analyses that drive GitLab’s earnings guidance and are presented to C-level executives and the Board of Directors, collaborating cross-functionally to support decision-making and accelerate growth.