Senior Fp&a Analyst, Corporate Finance

GitLab GitLab · Enterprise · Canada +1 · FP&A

Senior FP&A Analyst role at GitLab, focusing on financial planning, forecasting, and analysis to support strategic decision-making. The role involves leading revenue forecasting, developing financial models, driving process improvements with a focus on automation and AI-enabled analysis, and preparing insights for leadership. Experience with SaaS revenue concepts and applying AI tools to finance workflows is desired.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead revenue forecasting and planning work across core revenue components, including annual recurring revenue, churn, and expansion.
  2. Develop financial models, reporting, and analysis that support Corporate FP&A deliverables for finance leadership.
  3. Drive process improvements across close and planning workflows, with a focus on automation, AI-enabled analysis, and faster access to source data.
  4. Partner closely with finance teams such as accounting and compensation to support shared planning and reporting needs.
  5. Prepare clear commentary and insights for leadership reviews, including work that informs CFO, board, and audit committee discussions.

Skills

Required

  • Experience in corporate financial planning and analysis with ownership of revenue forecasting, planning, or related financial modeling.
  • Knowledge of SaaS revenue concepts, with working understanding of annual recurring revenue, churn, expansion, and how these drivers affect company performance.
  • Ability to build and improve models while keeping accuracy, clarity, and business usefulness at the center.
  • Experience using automation in finance workflows, along with curiosity about applying AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, or similar technologies to analysis and process improvement.
  • Judgment to distinguish between basic task automation and more advanced, scalable approaches that improve how work gets done.
  • Communication skills that support direct, transparent updates, thoughtful questions, and effective collaboration across finance partners.
  • Comfort working in a high-stakes, fast-paced environment that requires resilience, adaptability, and strong follow-through.
  • Openness to applying transferable experience from adjacent backgrounds if you bring strong financial acumen, an automation mindset, and the ability to learn quickly.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI as a core productivity multiplier
  • incorporate AI into their daily workflows
  • AI and automation to move faster with better visibility
  • AI-enabled analysis
  • applying AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, or similar technologies