Financial Planning and Analysis
Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. We help teams launch products faster, iterate on pricing quickly, and deliver a first-class billing experience—all with speed, control, and confidence.
Job Description
About the Role
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Metronome is seeking a dynamic FP&A lead to play a pivotal role in identifying and capitalizing on opportunities that drive our business forward. As a key member of our Finance Team, you will support management in building and maintaining growth models, forecasts, and ad-hoc analyses to optimize revenue, spending, and overall financial performance. Your work will be critical in operationalizing budgets, identifying key investment opportunities, and ensuring that our financial strategies align with our OKRs. This role is ideal for a top-performing professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and demonstrates extreme ownership in diagnosing challenges, analyzing solutions, and driving impactful implementations.
What You'll Do
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- Build and maintain dynamic growth, financial models, and forecasts that drive revenue and spend optimization budget variance analysis, revenue forecast, customer metric tracking (LTV, and CAC payback, rule of 40, etc.) to evaluate key business opportunities and support decision-making
- Function as a hands-on, strategic partner to business leaders, working closely with the Head of Finance to craft actionable business recommendations based on key metrics and insights.
- Assist with planning exercises and manage the quarterly and annual budgeting cycles, ensuring efficient processes for budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting
- Assess key metrics across the business to align financial models with our strategic objectives and OKRs.
- Maintain scalable financial reports and models to validate and communicate quarterly business reviews, and work closely with the Accounting team on initiatives such as the monthly close process
- Identify opportunities to streamline financial analysis and reporting processes, taking extreme ownership of your role in driving operational efficiency
- As we build out our data analytics team, partner with them to source and structure data, ensuring that our forecasts and KPIs are reliable and accurate
Qualifications
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- 6+ years in investment banking, private equity, or within a high-growth technology/SaaS company in strategic finance or FP&A roles
- Expert-level Excel skills with extensive experience in building P&L, LTV, and CAC models and analyzing large data sets
- Solid understanding of US GAAP
- Exceptional quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, with expertise in building and executing data-driven strategies
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with a strong ability to translate data into clear, impactful narratives
- A self-starter who thrives on ownership and has a bias toward action, even in ambiguous or fast-changing environments
- Comfortable tackling open-ended, complex questions and iterating quickly on solutions
- Collaborative and adept at building strong relationships with cross-functional teams
Bonus Points
- Experience at enterprise and infrastructure SaaS
- SQL expert
Impact You'll Have
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- Collaborate with department leaders to support the businesses financial goals, and drive high-priority initiatives
- Own the full lifecycle of Financial Planning and Analysis, from table stakes P&L and Burn modeling, budget variance analysis, to driving strategic projects as a business partner
- Partner cross-functionally with R&D, S&M, and G&A leaders to set and execute key financial metrics and strategic initiatives, driving alignment across the organization.
Compensation
The estimated base salary range for this role is $138,876 - $190,954. In addition to your base salary, Metronome offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched equity, sales incentive pay (for eligible roles), comprehensive health benefits, and other benefits listed below.
The actual base salary will vary based on factors including market value, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process, and previous experience. The listed range above should serve as a guideline and may be modified at any time.
We believe that compensation reflects the expected impact you will have at the company, relative to the market value of your role. We also conduct an annual pay audit to ensure pay is fair, indexed to market value, and that pay takes into account continued performance at Metronome. If you would like to learn more about our philosophy or about why we are all billing nerds, send us a message. We’d love to talk!
About the Role
Metronome is seeking a dynamic FP&A lead to play a pivotal role in identifying and capitalizing on opportunities that drive our business forward. As a key member of our Finance Team, you will support management in building and maintaining growth models, forecasts, and ad-hoc analyses to optimize revenue, spending, and overall financial performance. Your work will be critical in operationalizing budgets, identifying key investment opportunities, and ensuring that our financial strategies align with our OKRs. This role is ideal for a top-performing professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and demonstrates extreme ownership in diagnosing challenges, analyzing solutions, and driving impactful implementations.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain dynamic growth, financial models, and forecasts that drive revenue and spend optimization budget variance analysis, revenue forecast, customer metric tracking (LTV, and CAC payback, rule of 40, etc.) to evaluate key business opportunities and support decision-making
- Function as a hands-on, strategic partner to business leaders, working closely with the Head of Finance to craft actionable business recommendations based on key metrics and insights.
- Assist with planning exercises and manage the quarterly and annual budgeting cycles, ensuring efficient processes for budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting
- Assess key metrics across the business to align financial models with our strategic objectives and OKRs.
- Maintain scalable financial reports and models to validate and communicate quarterly business reviews, and work closely with the Accounting team on initiatives such as the monthly close process
- Identify opportunities to streamline financial analysis and reporting processes, taking extreme ownership of your role in driving operational efficiency
- As we build out our data analytics team, partner with them to source and structure data, ensuring that our forecasts and KPIs are reliable and accurate
Qualifications
- 6+ years in investment banking, private equity, or within a high-growth technology/SaaS company in strategic finance or FP&A roles
- Expert-level Excel skills with extensive experience in building P&L, LTV, and CAC models and analyzing large data sets
- Solid understanding of US GAAP
- Exceptional quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, with expertise in building and executing data-driven strategies
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with a strong ability to translate data into clear, impactful narratives
- A self-starter who thrives on ownership and has a bias toward action, even in ambiguous or fast-changing environments
- Comfortable tackling open-ended, complex questions and iterating quickly on solutions
- Collaborative and adept at building strong relationships with cross-functional teams
Bonus Points
- Experience at enterprise and infrastructure SaaS
- SQL expert
Impact You'll Have
- Collaborate with department leaders to support the businesses financial goals, and drive high-priority initiatives
- Own the full lifecycle of Financial Planning and Analysis, from table stakes P&L and Burn modeling, budget variance analysis, to driving strategic projects as a business partner
- Partner cross-functionally with R&D, S&M, and G&A leaders to set and execute key financial metrics and strategic initiatives, driving alignment across the organization.
Compensation
The estimated base salary range for this role is $138,876 - $190,954. In addition to your base salary, Metronome offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched equity, sales incentive pay (for eligible roles), comprehensive health benefits, and other benefits listed below.
The actual base salary will vary based on factors including market value, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process, and previous experience. The listed range above should serve as a guideline and may be modified at any time.
We believe that compensation reflects the expected impact you will have at the company, relative to the market value of your role. We also conduct an annual pay audit to ensure pay is fair, indexed to market value, and that pay takes into account continued performance at Metronome. If you would like to learn more about our philosophy or about why we are all billing nerds, send us a message. We’d love to talk!
