Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Company: Pinterest
Job Position: Sales Finance Associate
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Qualification:
Education & Experience
2+ years of relevant industry experience with a focus in financial modeling (e.g., investment banking, corporate finance experience)
- BA Degree in a technically related field
- Experience writing SQL queries and retrieving data from relational databases
- Experience working with financial tools, such as Adaptive
- Strong communication and presentation skills (Google Slides, Google Docs)
Job Responsibility:
Perform investment analysis during our forecasting cycles, including variance analyses and related risks and opportunities to the forecasts
- Build financial modeling tools to support critical financial decisions in our business operations
- Apply a data-driven analytical approach to influence strategic decision-making, with a focus on resource allocation decisions and long-term planning
- Bring new thinking and ways of running core processes to function, as appropriate, including analyzing and monitoring headcount growth, pushing new metrics and performance indicators to help identify trends and improve investment forecasting accuracy
- Work with our financial operations team to create dashboards that scale monitoring of investments (specifically headcount) to drive business growth