Sales Finance Analyst, Pinterest
$54.9-96.1k
+ Equity
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Open for applications
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$54.9-96.1k
+ Equity
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent SQL experience
- Exceptional spreadsheet skills with experience creating financial models and dashboards
- Excellent verbal and written communication as well as presentation skills (Google Slides)
- Ability to multi-task and deliver against tight timelines
- Familiarity with using AI-powered analytics or forecasting tools (such as ChatGPT, Tableau with AI features, or Google Cloud AI platforms) to streamline financial analysis, generate insights, or create reports. Ability to learn and adapt to evolving AI-driven tools and methodologies in financial planning is a plus
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business or 3+ years of experience in Sales Finance, Corporate Finance, FP&A, Investment Banking, or other quantitative fields
What the job involves
- We are seeking an Analyst of Sales Finance to join our Finance team
- You will work on a high-performing, high-impact team that delivers CFO-level partnership and sophisticated analytics to our Chief Revenue Officer and their global leadership team
- Within the Finance organization, you’ll support Sales Finance Managers, our Senior Manager of Sales Finance, Director of Sales Finance, and Senior Sales & XFN Stakeholders on aspects related to revenue forecasting, insights, and goal-setting
- You will partner with Sales leaders on ideas to improve their P&L
- This includes identifying underlying trends and consulting on strategic business decisions
- Your role is to translate complex data into actionable insights, which means you can focus on the details but also solve big-picture challenges
- You’ll have the opportunity to put your fingerprints on a unique and dynamic digital ads platform with global reach
- The Sales Finance team’s mandate is to optimize value creation for Pinners, advertisers, and Pinterest through disciplined business leadership and seamless financial execution
- We do this by developing financial forecasts, providing decision support through analyses, generating internal reports, monitoring key performance indicators, and scaling financial processes
- Support revenue and performance management of key sales verticals
- Build sophisticated models that will deliver cutting-edge insights and improve revenue forecasting
- Own delivery of financial reporting to Pinterest executives (e.g. Director of Sales Finance, CFO as well as Sales leaders including the CRO and their direct reports)
- Create dashboards and models to scale monitoring of key performance indicators and tools to drive strategic insight
- Support other strategic programs within Pinterest like agencies, resellers, and partnerships with advertisers
- Leverage your superior financial modeling skills in order to deliver ad hoc analyses
Our take
Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.
Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and X, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 600M by late 2025.
With this type of success, Pinterest's future feels full of possibility. Recent industry chatter suggests that OpenAI may be eyeing the platform, which has sparked exciement for some and concern for others. While nothing is confirmed, the discussion highlights just how valuable Pinterest has become. Whether through potential partnerships or continues independent growth, Pinterest is very much going to keep on innovation and growing.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Bill Ready
(CEO)Prior to joining Pinterest in 2022, Bill was the President of Commerce, Payments & Emerging Markets at Google.
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