Sr. Financial Analyst - G&A and Marketing FP&A - West
About the role
Smartsheet is growing its outstanding Finance team to help achieve our operational and financial goals while embodying our values. The Finance team connects the dots between Smartsheet's operational and business strategies to shape financial performance.
We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team supporting our G&A (Finance, Legal, HR, CEO) and Marketing organizations. In this role, you'll be a strategic finance partner to senior leaders across these functions—helping evaluate investment decisions, model new initiatives, and translate business priorities into financial outcomes.
You'll bring an executive lens to the work, framing trade-offs, quantifying ROI, and supporting leaders as they make confident decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. You'll also collaborate closely with a peer analyst on the team to deliver the full FP&A scope—planning, forecasting, monthly close, and reporting—across these organizations.
This role will report to the Director, FP&A located in our Bellevue, WA office. Role is remote eligible with a preference for candidates located in the West.
You Will:
- Strategic Business Partnership: Serve as a trusted finance partner to G&A and Marketing leaders, bringing financial rigor and a business lens to the questions they're working through.
- Business Case & Investment Modeling: Build decision-grade models with scenario and sensitivity analysis to evaluate new programs, vendor selections, and capability builds. Examples include marketing pipeline contribution modeling, product-led growth (PLG) investment cases, personnel and organizational cost modeling, and build-vs.-buy or outsourcing analyses.
- Marketing & G&A Finance Partnership: Help Marketing leaders connect spend to pipeline, bookings, and brand outcomes across paid, owned, earned, PLG, events, and partner motions. Partner with G&A leaders on the cost and benefit of process improvements, automation, and organizational design decisions.
- Planning, Forecasting & Close: Actively engage in annual planning, quarterly forecasts, monthly close, and variance cycles—owning the narrative behind the numbers and ensuring accuracy and consistency.
- Executive Communication & Influence: Translate complex analyses into clear recommendations for VP- and C-level audiences, and partner across Accounting, HRBPs, Procurement, and other FP&A teams to drive decisions forward.
- Process & Tooling Innovation: Leverage AI, BI, and FP&A platforms to elevate the quality and speed of analysis and move the team toward real-time decision support.
- Own and contribute to other projects and duties as assigned.
You Have:
- 5+ years of progressive experience and demonstrated growth in Finance/FP&A positions, including experience building decision-grade financial models from scratch.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field preferred.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence and facilitate discussions with senior leaders.