Senior Financial Analyst, Staffbase
Corporate FP&A
+ Long-Term Incentive Plan
Employee communications platform
Job no longer available
Employee communications platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Long-Term Incentive Plan
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower communicators worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- You possess a high-performing track record gained within a fast-growth SaaS environment, where the creation and evolution of robust three-statement financial models has been a cornerstone of your success. You bring 5+ years of total experience to this role
- You are a qualified accountant with a strong understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and fundamental accounting principles
- You have proven experience in developing and managing financial planning and reporting tools. Familiarity with Workday Adaptive Planning would be a significant advantage
- You are a poised and confident communicator, comfortable challenging the status quo and articulating your informed perspective effectively
- Your analytical skills are exceptional, allowing you to seamlessly transition between strategic "big picture" thinking and meticulous deep dives into the granular details
- You are comfortable as an individual contributor and have a proven ability to navigate complex networks of systems and people to extract the information you need. Crucially, you go beyond data retrieval to craft compelling narratives by translating findings into relevant insights and well-supported conclusions
What the job involves
- Strategic Alignment: Develop a comprehensive understanding of Staffbase's business model, product portfolio, market dynamics, and competitive landscape. Translate strategic initiatives into concrete financial targets that underpin our long-range planning efforts
- Industry Acumen: Maintain a strong awareness of relevant SaaS industry trends, leveraging these insights to proactively shape and refine Staffbase's financial forecasts and direction
- Long-Term Vision: Own the development and execution of multi-year financial plans, annual budgets, and dynamic rolling forecasts. Collaborate closely with executive leadership to ensure financial objectives are fully aligned with the company's strategic vision
- Advanced Modelling: Continuously elevate the sophistication of our financial models to enhance the accuracy and reliability of long-term projections. Proactively identify potential risks and opportunities by incorporating industry best practices and innovative modeling techniques
- Annual Planning Oversight: Partner with the Head of FP&A to lead the annual planning process, effectively managing stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, and consolidating company-wide financial plans
- Resource Optimization: Collaborate strategically with FP&A business partners across Sales & Marketing, Customer Success, R&D, and G&A to optimize resource allocation, including headcount management and operational expenditure efficiency
- Month-End Leadership: Serve as the central point of leadership for the FP&A month-end close process, guaranteeing the timely and accurate completion of comprehensive management reports
- Actionable Intelligence: Ensure the robustness of financial models, projections, and
- Analysis by rigorously reviewing key assumptions, constructively challenging
- Stakeholder inputs, and delivering compelling, data-driven insights that directly inform
- Executive decision-making
- External Reporting Ownership: Take full ownership of external reporting obligations for both investors and lenders, ensuring meticulous consistency, accuracy, and adherence to timely delivery schedules
- Data Quality Enhancement: Work in close partnership with accounting and financial systems teams to streamline processes that enhance the accuracy and timeliness of financial data for both internal management reporting and external disclosures
- Scalable planning system: Collaborate with the Head of FP&A to develop and implement a scalable financial planning tool that are strategically aligned with the company’s ERP roadmap
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Staffbase is the first AI-native employee experience platform and it's built to help companies keep their people connected - an employee app, intranet, email, SMS, digital signagfee, and Microsoft 365 integrations - all in one place. With more than 2,000 customers worldwide, including Adidas, Toyota, DHL, and Sephora, Staffbase is helping organisations build stronger, more aligned workplaces.
With teams spread across offices, countries, and time zones, companies need reliable ways to keep everyone informed and engaged. And Staffbase does just that, making communication simpler and more effective for every employee. Its tools, including an AI-powered Staffbase Companion assistant, give people the information they need quickly, so they can work more collaboratively with confidence.
A major leap forward for the company is Employee AI, Staffbase's new foundation for the next era of employee experience. Built on trusted data, governance, adn braod reach, it'sd esigned to make AI genuinely uselful for every employee. Features rolling out through 2025 and 2026 include a mobile-first AI assistant that helps employees complete tasks, hyper-personalised weekly podcasts, smarter content governance that keeps information up to date, and prompt-based tools that help teams create high-quality content faster.
With such strong momentum, industry recognition (like being named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for three years in a row), and a partnership with Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service, Staffbase is very much ready for the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2022
$122.2m
SERIES E
Mar 2021
$145m
SERIES D
Total funding: $321.7m
Company HQ
Altchemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Leadership
Martin Böhringer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded productivity app builder startup Hojoki, serving as CEO before co-founding Staffbase in 2014.
Lutz Gerlach
(Co-Founder & COO)Before Staffbase, co-founded and served as COO of Hojoki.
Frank Wolf
(Co-Founder & President)Previously worked in Social Technologies and Collaboration for T-Systems Multimedia Solutions (T-Mobile), following seven years as a Manager for Accenture.
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