FP&A Analyst

About the role

Rilla is seeking an FP&A Analyst to join the Finance team and take ownership of the financial modeling, forecasting, and reporting that directly informs how Rilla grows. In this position, you will build and maintain the models, dashboards, and analyses that drive critical decisions across the entire company with direct exposure to the CEO and board-level reporting from day one. You will collaborate closely with Finance leadership, Accounting, and cross-functional partners across Sales, Product, and Operations, where nothing here is inherited and you are building it all from scratch. This role requires a customer-obsessed individual who deeply cares about delighting clients and solving their pains rather than chasing vanity metrics, and who feels uneasy when they get complacent. You must be unafraid of failure, taking risks and viewing each setback as an opportunity to learn, grow, and improve for the next attempt.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Own Rilla's annual planning, quarterly forecasting, and long-range model, ensuring they remain grounded in what is actually happening in the business.
• Build, maintain, and refine dynamic financial models for revenue, headcount, and opex that accurately reflect current performance and future scenarios.
• Run variance analysis versus plan, forecast, and prior periods, surfacing trends, risks, and drivers that leadership needs to act on immediately.
• Produce clean monthly executive reporting packages, including KPI dashboards and sharp written insights that drive decisions, not just document them.
• Track and explain core SaaS metrics such as ARR, NDR, CAC, payback, and churn with precision and clarity.
• Partner with Accounting on close accuracy and consistent reporting inputs to ensure data integrity across financial processes.
• Analyze unit economics and cost drivers across customers, products, and teams to support pricing, resourcing, and investment decisions.
• Support headcount planning and hiring forecasts in partnership with Recruiting and department leads as the company scales rapidly.
• Build and maintain investor-ready reporting, including metrics used in board materials and fundraising diligence for ongoing growth initiatives.
• Act as a finance partner to GTM, Product, and Operations for budget management, ROI analysis, and ad hoc scenario modeling.
• Partner with RevOps on ARR reconciliation, bookings forecasting, and pipeline-to-revenue analysis to ensure alignment across systems.
• Build the FP&A infrastructure that Rilla will run on, including process improvements, systems optimization, data quality initiatives, and reporting automation.

Requirements

• Bring 2-4 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, or a similarly analytical role that demonstrates rigorous analytical capabilities.
• Show advanced proficiency in financial modeling with strong skills in Excel and/or Google Sheets, with the ability to construct complex models and automate workflows.
• Possess experience with SaaS or recurring-revenue business models, including an understanding of the nuances that drive value in these businesses.
• Demonstrate familiarity with FP&A platforms such as Mosaic, Planful, Datarails, or similar tools to manage planning, forecasting, and reporting.
• Thrive in an environment with no existing infrastructure, requiring you to build systems from scratch and translate complex data into clear, direct insights that move the business forward.
• Exhibit the ability to work with incomplete data, changing targets, and tight timelines, making sound decisions with imperfect information and owning the outcomes.
• Move, think, act, and learn extremely fast, adapting quickly to new challenges and absorbing information at a high velocity.
• Maintain extreme focus in all tasks, consistently prioritizing time and resources to achieve maximum efficiency and impact.
• Demonstrate a customer-obsessed mindset, deeply caring about solving client pains and delivering delightful experiences.
• Show an affinity for the unconventional, being comfortable rejecting conventional wisdom and trying weird, crazy, and potentially stupid ideas.
• Be an infinite learner who is always looking to learn more and learn faster, refusing complacency and seeking discomfort.
• Be a team player who loves giving and receiving feedback and growing collaboratively with peers.
• Be unafraid of failure, viewing each setback as a valuable learning opportunity to improve future performance.

Nice to have

• Experience at a high-growth startup or SaaS company where you have navigated rapid scaling and ambiguity.
• Hands-on exposure to ARR forecasting, churn analysis, and GTM performance metrics to drive data-backed decisions.
• Experience with BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Mode, and/or financial systems like NetSuite, Adaptive, or Anaplan.
• Experience supporting recruiting and headcount planning at a scaling company, understanding the financial implications of talent growth.
• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience that demonstrates advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

Practical notes

This role is a full-time position based in New York City. The successful candidate must be able to relocate to New York City and comply with any applicable visa requirements for employment in the United States. No specific working hours are outlined, but the role requires immediate and consistent availability to meet the demands of a fast-paced startup environment. Travel is not expected as part of this role, given the virtual nature of the position and the company's reliance on remote collaboration tools. The role involves significant responsibility with limited infrastructure, requiring self-direction and the ability to operate effectively in an ambiguous and evolving environment.