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Benchling is an AI platform for biotech R&D used by over 200,000 scientists globally, including major biopharma companies like Sanofi and Moderna. The company is rebuilding biotech for the AI era by combining clean, structured scientific data with AI capabilities to accelerate R&D workflows.
You will join the Strategic Finance team as a Financial Analyst supporting the Field organization (Sales, Solution Consulting, Sales Operations & Enablement, and Marketing). This is an execution-focused role at the core of supporting the Sales organization's financial operations and strategic planning.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and maintaining full-year budgets and quarterly forecasts for Field Organizations
- Delivering monthly and quarterly financial analyses with budget-versus-actual variance reviews, surfacing key issues, risks, and business drivers
- Supporting commission calculations, reporting, and annual compensation plan design
- Partnering with Accounting on monthly close activities including vendor reviews, closed-won opportunities, collections, and commission payments
- Developing and improving sales and customer metrics (revenue, ARR, ASP, seat penetration, quota attainment)
- Partnering with business leaders on strategic initiatives with proactive recommendations backed by financial analysis
- Driving ad-hoc projects and analysis to support long-term growth
- Supporting company-wide annual and long-range planning processes
The role requires rigorous FP&A work: getting numbers right, surfacing insights, and building operational infrastructure that enables the business to run effectively.
Workplace: Hybrid with 3 days per week on-site in San Francisco (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday). Only candidates currently living in the San Francisco area will be considered.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent
- 2–5 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience, with at least 2 years supporting a Sales, Marketing, or GTM organization at a SaaS company
- Strong understanding and substantial knowledge of complex financial modeling, GAAP accounting, and FP&A best practices
- Strong communication skills with ability to think logically, rationally, and strategically; ability to distill and articulate complex data to drive business decisions; experience presenting analyses to management and leading initiatives
- Proficiency in Excel/Sheets and a planning tool (Adaptive, Anaplan, or equivalent) required
- Salesforce and Certinia experience is a strong plus
