We are seeking a strategic FP&A Analyst here at X. This high-impact role will be responsible for driving FP&A analysis on gross margin and key business initiatives and deals, partner with our Content Partnerships and Sales team on deal terms and strategy, and provide critical insights and recommendations on where X can maximize business opportunity, revenue, and users.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial analysis, and be able to confidently partner with all levels of employees including executive leadership. It will report to FP&A leadership with a dotted line to the CFO, and work with X’s FP&A and Revenue Finance teams, and internal clients throughout the business. It will require a sharp and analytic mind to focus on cost of revenue and optimizing for gross margin across ad sales, content deals and other strategic initiatives. Outstanding candidates will also be able to find opportunities for maximizing revenue, gross margin, and deal structures.

Location: New York or Palo Alto
Base Range: $127,000 - $166,000

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Responsibilities:

• Build models to analyze complex and sometimes ambiguous business issues: revenue forecasting, market sizing, compensation structures, product launches

• Keen understanding of cost of revenue and ability to build and partition costs to accurately reflect cost of revenue associated with various ad sales deals, content deals, and other strategic initiatives as they present.

• Work closely with Partnerships & Sales management to create growth plans and to determine optimal resource allocation

• Work with key stakeholders to create, draft, and communicate policies to facilitate smoother operations and improve decision making

• Work with large data sets, synthesize insights, and present recommendations to executives

• Design and implement reporting tools for your business partners

• Create meaningful presentations and analyses that tell a story focused on insights, not just data

• Streamline processes and increase bandwidth within the FP&A team through automation and outsourcing

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record

• 4-7 years of experience preferably in investment banking, investment management, management consulting, FP&A or in the internet industry

• Experience in ad sales strongly preferred

• Experience in content FP&A and or content accounting strongly preferred

• Demonstrated ability to work and produce final products as a high-performing individual contributor

• Excel/Google docs and financial modeling skills

• Experience manipulating complex and large data sets

• Experience in SQL required; Tableau and GBQ a plus