Senior FP&A Analyst, Cloud Hosting

What You’ll Do

• Manage and report on cloud and AI-related expenses, maintaining forecast models that incorporate actual results, usage drivers, and business drivers.
• Execute recurring month-end close activities, including accruals, allocations, reconciliations, variance analysis, and close commentary.
• Support forecasting and annual planning cycles, and build or enhance financial models to answer new and evolving business questions.
• Partner with engineering, product, procurement, accounting, and finance stakeholders to gather inputs, resolve data questions, explain results, and support spending decisions.
• Access and analyze cloud billing information from provider consoles, billing exports, and other data sources, then translate findings into clear narratives, recommendations, and decision-support materials.
• Use AI tools to automate and improve recurring analysis, reporting, data preparation, and other finance workflows while improving data quality, accuracy, scalability, and operating efficiency.
• Own deliverables, communicate progress and risks proactively, and manage changing priorities in GitLab’s distributed, asynchronous environment.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting, or finance business partnering, including exposure to vendor spend, forecasting, variance analysis, and month-end close activities.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, including the ability to work with detailed data, investigate variances, evaluate financial trade-offs, and build or enhance models from scratch.
• Ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear narratives and recommendations for cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritize effectively, work independently, and communicate clearly in an asynchronous environment.
• Experience with cloud and AI vendor spend. Cloud cost management and FinOps experience is preferred but not required.

About the Team

The FP&A team partners with executive team members and functional leaders across GitLab to provide timely, fact-based planning support. We support annual planning, the operating plan and long-term financial model, internal financial reporting, and the financial and analytical tools that help make GitLab predictable. We work closely with technology, engineering, procurement, accounting, and FP&A partners. We work in GitLab’s all-remote, asynchronous environment and value clear communication, ownership, mentorship, and the ability to make complex information useful. The FP&A Manager is hands-on and available to help while giving team members opportunities to present to leadership and own their work.

Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave