About Drift

Drift, the Conversation Cloud company, helps businesses connect with people at the right time, in the right place with the right conversation. Using the Drift Conversation Cloud, businesses can personalize experiences that lead to more quality pipeline, revenue and lifelong customers. Drift brings Conversational Marketing, Conversational Sales and Conversational Service into a single platform that integrates chat, email and video and powers personalized experiences with artificial intelligence (AI) at all stages of the customer journey. More than 5,000 customers use Drift to deliver a more enjoyable and more human buying experience that builds trust and accelerates revenue. Representing less than 1% of unicorns led by Latino founders, Drift is building an equitable, enduring company to transform the way businesses buy from businesses.

About The Team

Drift is looking to add a dynamic Senior Financial Analyst to help scale our Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a prominent and growing technology company in Boston. This person will be a critical member of a team that will help scale the company by building and fostering key business partnerships across the organization.

About the role

This role is part of a small and dynamic FP&A team, reporting to the Director of FP&A and is in the larger Company Success Team. 

In this role, you will: 

• Be a true business partner and go-to person for all analytical support, thinking and going beyond budget variances and expense management to help the business achieve operational goals and strategy
• Contribute to the creation of a detailed operating plan and long-term corporate financial model and will track ongoing changes to the business in the rolling forecast, which sits in Adaptive Insights as our main FP&A forecasting tool
• Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting - analyzing financial results, understanding key trends, assessing current and future business risk, and communicating/presenting key messages to senior management
• Perform ad-hoc business case and scenario analysis to support strategic initiatives 
• Collaborate across various teams to assess unit-level economics and key business KPIs for go-to-market teams and the entire company
• Support the accounting team in the month end close process, assisting with variance analysis as needed

About you and what type of skills youll need:

You will be customer-centric and passionate about making a difference in your role. You will be a self-starter, self-motivated, able to think independently and at the same time want to continue to learn and develop your skill set. You will be a thinker and a problem solver with an eye for process improvement. You will be a team player, able to work across different departments and different management levels, and focused on solving business and financial challenges.

In this role, you should have:

• 4 to 7 years of FP&A or Sales Operations experience 
• Tech savviness and the ability to learn new systems quickly
• Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills to interact with various levels of executive management 
• Positive attitude with high level of eagerness and aptitude to learn new technology and practices
• Experience in high growth companies and comfortable working on a fast-paced team with changing priorities
• Independent/flexible problem-solver with the ability to adapt as the business grows
• Advanced Microsoft Excel/Google sheets skills required; experience with Adaptive Insights a plus

Drift is committed to being an equal opportunity employer.

We know that applying for a new job can be intimidating. But guess what? At Drift, there is no such thing as an ideal candidate. We believe in the power of teamwork -- and in the desire to learn something new every day. We believe in hiring people, not just skills. Take it from our Founder. 

If this sounds like a company you would like to join and a role you would thrive in, please dont hold back from applying! Whatever skills you bring to the table or background youre coming from, we welcome you to start a conversation with us. We need your unique perspective for our continued innovation and success. Were looking forward to learning more about you!

Drift is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected]. #LI-Remote