Lead FP&A Analyst

Overview

Lead FP&A Analyst on Motive's GTM Finance team, serving as a trusted finance partner to Go-To-Market leadership to translate business performance into insights and support planning, forecasting and investment decisions.

What you'll do

• Own monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting processes for assigned GTM functions.
• Lead budget-versus-actuals analysis, identify key drivers, and communicate actionable recommendations to business partners.
• Build and maintain financial models covering headcount, operating expenses, and other GTM investments.
• Partner with functional leaders to develop annual plans, quarterly outlooks, and scenario analyses.
• Develop a deep understanding of GTM operating metrics, including pipeline, retention, churn, implementation activity, and sales efficiency metrics.
• Prepare recurring reporting and executive-ready materials for leadership reviews, operating meetings, and board-related requests.
• Reconcile financial and operational data across systems, investigate discrepancies, and improve data quality and control.
• Support headcount planning, hiring analysis, capacity modeling, and workforce investment decisions across GTM.
• Create and improve dashboards, reporting tools, and analytical processes that make performance easier to understand and act on.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual workflows and improve the scalability, accuracy, and timeliness of FP&A processes.
• Collaborate with Accounting, Data, Revenue Operations, People, and Corporate FP&A to align assumptions, definitions, and reporting.
• Provide ad hoc analysis and decision support for strategic initiatives, investment cases, and other business priorities.

What you'll need

• 4+ years of experience in FP&A, finance, investment banking, consulting, business operations, or a related analytical field.
• Strong financial modeling skills and advanced proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets.
• Experience with forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, scenario modeling, and executive reporting.
• Ability to connect financial results to operational drivers and explain complex analysis clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience partnering with senior business leaders and constructively challenging assumptions when appropriate.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and project-management skills.
• Comfort working with large, imperfect datasets and reconciling information across multiple systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High ownership, sound judgment, attention to detail, and a bias toward practical, decision-useful analysis.
• An AI-native mindset and history of utilizing AI to improve workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience with HEX.
• Experience in a high-growth SaaS, technology, or subscription-based business.
• Familiarity with SaaS and GTM metrics, including ARR, retention, churn, bookings, pipeline, capacity, and productivity.
• Experience with systems such as Salesforce, NetSuite, Pigment, Snowflake, Tableau, or SQL-based analytics environments.
• Experience supporting Sales, Marketing, Implementation, Customer Success, or other post-sales organizations.
• Experience building scalable reporting, dashboards, or automated planning workflows.

Details

• Location: United States, remote.
• Some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at one of Motive's global offices.
• Non-compete covenant may be required depending on role and primary work location, excluding lawyers, interns, and employees in CA, MN, MT, ND, OK, or where otherwise prohibited by law.
• Employees must be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.