Senior Financial Analyst, Fastly
Strategic Finance
$114.2-137k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
Edge cloud platform
Be an early applicant
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$114.2-137k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- If you are a finance professional who is eager to learn and transform data into actionable high-value insights, this role is for you
- 3–6 years of relevant experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Investment Banking
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of the three financial statements, variance analysis, and SaaS/usage-based business metrics (ARR, NRR, Churn)
- Modeling Wizardry: Advanced proficiency in Excel (Index/Match, complex nested formulas) and ability to build clean, auditable financial models
- Communication: Ability to distill complex data into clear, concise summaries for senior leadership
- Proactivity: You are a self-starter who doesn't just report the numbers but asks "Why?" and "So what?"
- Curiosity & Aptitude: A strong willingness to learn technical data skills. You don't need to be a data scientist, but you must be comfortable navigating ambiguity and learning new systems
Desirable
- Experience with Netsuite, Adaptive Insights, or Salesforce
- Experience with Factset and AlphaSense
- Experience with (or desire to learn) data visualization tools like Looker, Tableau, or PowerBI. Basic knowledge of SQL is a huge plus. If you don’t know it, you must be excited to learn it to query data independently
- Exposure to Python for data analysis
- Experience working at a high-growth technology company
What the job involves
- The Financial Planning & Analysis team is seeking a curious and analytical Senior Financial Analyst to join our Strategic Finance team
- This role is unique: it sits at the intersection of traditional FP&A, Investor Relations and Data Analytics
- While your primary focus will be financial modeling, forecasting, and business partnering, you will leverage data tools to automate reporting and uncover deeper insights
- Ad-Hoc Analysis: Build dynamic financial models to support strategic initiatives, and ad-hoc projectsBusiness Partnering: Work cross-functionally to build out new processes and improve existing ones for monthly and quarterly customer metrics reporting
- Dashboards: Partner frequently with the BI team to transition manual Excel reporting into self-service dashboards (e.g., in Looker)
- Investor Relations Support: Assist with the preparation of materials for quarter-end close and earnings calls
- Data Integrity: Act as the "guardian of truth" by validating data consistency between systems (Netsuite, Salesforce, and the Data Warehouse)
- You will investigate variances and flag data quality issues
- Exploratory Analysis: Use large data sets to analyze customer trends, usage-based revenue patterns, and product adoption to inform your financial models
- Automation: Identify repetitive reporting tasks and work to automate them, freeing up time for higher-level strategic work
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 03/27/2025
Our take
Internet users around the world have come to expect personalized, real-time digital experiences, but delivering these quickly and securely, while maintaining quality, can be a difficult task for businesses.
Fastly enables the companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users — improving the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands, and enabling clients to focus on growing their businesses.
The company has helped several high-profile businesses, including Reddit, Pinterest, Stripe, EPIC Games, and more. Its offering is well-regarded in the space, demonstrated by it being named a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023 report.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2019
$40m
SERIES F
Jul 2018
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $259m
Company benefits
- Parental support and beyond: We support our families by offering generous time off for parental leave. And beyond that, we work hard to build a culture that allows for all employees to have the life outside work that they desire year round.
- Health and wellness: Your well-being matters here. Our health plans offer a variety of options, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, mental health resources, and more.
- Invest in your future: We offer 401(k)/retirement plans, employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP), and reimbursements for learning and development programs — so we can support your ongoing growth and success.
- Keep learning and growing: Helping people go further means nurturing their talent. Through annual reimbursements for employee learning activities, regular hangouts and advice from our Senior Staff, talks from industry leaders, and cultural events — we offer tons of opportunities for people to learn. And we’re always looking to grow as a company, too: we collect employee engagement and experience data annually and leverage our Employee Experience Champion Network to understand employee feedback, so we can keep improving.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kip Compton
(CEO)Kip joined the Fastly team in 2024 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2025. Prior to this, he was an SVP of Strategy & Business Development/Networking at Cisco.
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