Senior FP&A Analyst

About the position

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We're re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we're building the future of online marketplaces-together. From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone. And we're just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we're looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.

Responsibilities

• Own all facets of OPEX spend for Organizations across the business, with growth opportunities to be a FP&A vertical owner
• Partner with Org leads, People Business Partners, and talent to understand end-to-end organizational needs (headcount & non-headcount spend); act as a business partner to manage and recalibrate spend on a monthly basis
• Participate in the annual planning process, owning your areas for a 12 to 18 month forward-looking projection
• Support the month-end close process by completing budget vs. actual analysis against prior periods, budgets, and forecasts.
• Familiarize with business operating metrics and the utilization of said metric to drive business insight and operational improvements
• Create vendor-level forecasts for spend, including but not limited to software and legal
• Assist in the creation of internal and external monthly reporting packages, in partnership with various Finance & Accounting teams and Data
• Assist in forward-looking modeling efforts to better understand impact of spend on revenue
• Partner with cross-functional teams for the preparation of key quarterly reporting deliverables, including Board Meeting presentations and investor reporting
• Partner with Accounting on policies that impact corporate spend

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Finance, FP&A, or Accounting at a fast-paced company
• Expert knowledge of financial statement analysis and corporate finance concepts
• Strong familiarity with Accounting principles (Accounting background a plus)
• Familiarity with ERP Systems (GL + Planning), familiarity with Netsuite and Pigment a plus
• Self-starter, high attention to detail, and very organized
• Ability to partner cross-functionally, influence, and connect with all business partners
• Proven history of diving into numbers and extract insight to improve process or business decision making

Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• Home office setup allowance
• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
• Monthly allowance for wellness
• Annual allowance towards Childcare
• Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• Parental Leave
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work