Senior Financial Analyst

Atlassian

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Overview Atlassian is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Financial Planning & Analysis team (FP&A). In this visible position, you'll oversee the operational plan of several key parts of Atlassian R&D organization. You will play a meaningful role in influencing both the company and product & platform strategy. You will partner directly with both senior R&D leadership and senior FP&A leadership providing leadership and analytical rigor for the company’s annual planning and monthly/quarterly forecasting processes. ResponsibilitiesMore about you:In this role, you'll get to:

• Serve as a key business partner for R&D leadership and provide financial analysis, decision support analysis, financial modeling and provide ad-hoc analytical support.
• Execute on Atlassian’s forecasting, annual planning and financial long-range planning partnering closely with R&D leadership, building financial models for new concepts.
• Manage the month end, quarter end and year end processes to support management and corporate reporting requirements.
• Create financial reporting that provides actionable insights to the team.
• Own the communications strategy for all planning changes which includes executive level and detailed project briefs and status updates.

QualificationsOn your first day, we'll expect you to have:

Qualitative:

• Ability to prioritize objectives in a fast-paced environment to ensure key deliverables are met in a timely manner
• Experience with simultaneously managing multiple business stakeholders' budgets
• Excellent critical thinking, organizational, and prioritization skills
• Demonstrate attention to detail and follow-through
• Team player who can also self-initiate
• Possess a strong work ethic with a “get-it-done” attitude
• Strong critical thinking, organizational, and collaboration skills
• An effective communicator who is concise, timely, and able to explain finance and accounting to non-finance partners
• Efficient with managing tasks that require collaboration with stakeholders in different time zones
• Comfortable with senior leaders and even challenging the status quo when it's in the business’s best interests

Quantitative:

• A minimum of 5 years of FP&A experience
• Solid experience with planning and budgeting processes, financial forecasting, P&L management, interpreting and reporting business performance results
• Prior software sector experience is highly preferred, Cloud/SaaS is a strong plus.
• Experience supporting an R&D / Product organization
• Advanced proficiency in financial modeling
• Strong technical fundamentals - excel, but also exposure to planning tools (Anaplan), database / data warehousing concepts and finance systems (CRM & ERP)
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Finance, Accounting, Economics), MBA and/or CPA is a plus

• 💲 Development of Finance Strategy
  

  Recommend improvements to optimize and improve financial performance and development of strategic long-term plans

• 💼 Operational and Financial Reporting
  

  Analyze financial data to prepare timely reports to support business decisions

• ♾ Financial Modeling
  

  Analyze data to create financial models that support planning and projections

• 👥 Collaboration
  

  Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

• 🧮 Numerical problem solving
  

  Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

• 💭 Critical thinking
  

  Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight