Senior Finance Analyst

Position Overview

MathWorks offers a hybrid work model that lets you split your time between office and home, ensuring you enjoy both in‐person collaboration and the flexibility of working remotely. We are seeking a strategic and analytical Senior Analyst to drive planning, forecasting, and insights that shape business decisions in a dynamic environment. This hands-on role combines advanced analytics, scenario modeling, and business partnering to influence growth strategies, optimize performance, and present findings to senior and executive leadership. MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates inclusivity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

Learn more about our onboarding process here: Onboarding Information.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Planning & Forecasting: Act as a key contributor to the annual planning process, focusing on the quota and sales bookings portion of the financial model. Participate in periodic forecasting and analyze results from different perspectives to help drive sales forecasting accuracy.
• Deliver Actionable Insights: Analyze financial and non-financial metrics including ARR, churn, CAC, LTV, customer trends, and product performance, and provide clear, data-driven recommendations.
• Build Advanced Models: Develop and maintain dynamic financial models for scenario planning, predictive analytics, and business optimization using tools such as Anaplan and Snowflake.
• Partner Across the Business: Collaborate with Sales Operations and other teams to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure models accurately reflect business drivers and performance metrics.
• Enhance Reporting & Visualization: Create dashboards and visualizations using tools like Power BI to effectively communicate insights to senior leadership.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to automate processes, improve forecasting accuracy, and enhance the overall efficiency of FP&A operations.

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or equivalent experience) is required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Experience with financial analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical Skills: Advanced Excel modeling; proficiency in FP&A platforms (such as Anaplan) and experience with data visualization tools (Power BI).
• Analytical Expertise: Strong ability to interpret complex data sets and translate insights into actionable strategies.
• Communication: Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills to influence senior stakeholders.
• Mindset: Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving business environment.