Senior Financial Analyst

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Joining Collibra's Finance Team You'll be joining Collibra's FP&A team, the group responsible for translating Collibra's financial performance into the strategic clarity that drives company-wide decisions, from executive leadership to the Board. This team operates as a true business partner across every function at Collibra; the work here doesn't end with a report, it ends with a decision. You'll report directly to the Director of FP&A and work alongside a team whose mission is to not just tell Collibra where it has been, but to help shape where it's going. In this role, you'll be the dedicated finance partner to Collibra's R&D organization, owning the financial analysis behind product investment decisions, cloud hosting infrastructure, and product line performance reporting as Collibra continues to scale its product portfolio. Senior Financial Analysts at Collibra are responsible for Own the annual budget and rolling forecasts for the R&D organization, including engineering headcount, contractor spend, software and tooling, and allocated infrastructure costs. Serve as the day-to-day finance partner for R&D fielding budget questions, modeling one-off scenarios, and providing financial clarity for leadership decisions. Build business case models for R&D investments, new product development, platform initiatives, and major capability builds including projected costs, revenue assumptions, and payback periods. Model investment tradeoffs for R&D leadership and track actual performance of approved investments against their original business cases. Support growth and profitability target-setting by modeling how R&D investment levels translate into product capability timelines and downstream revenue potential. Own cloud hosting cost reporting and forecasting tracking actuals by product line against budget and maintaining a forward-looking model that reflects planned usage growth. Identify optimization opportunities across the cloud portfolio idle resources, over-provisioned environments, and commitment vs. on-demand mix and partner with engineering on cost implications of architectural decisions. Build and maintain a product-level P&L for key product lines covering ARR, recognized revenue, gross margin, and associated R&D and GTM investment. Contribute product line P&L, ARR, and pipeline performance to executive and board-level reporting. You have 5-8 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a closely related analytical role in a SaaS or technology company; experience supporting R&D and GTM finance is a strong plus. Demonstrated experience with core FP&A disciplines budgeting, forecasting, headcount modeling, and variance analysis preferably with R&D cost structures. Familiarity with cloud infrastructure economics and the ability to build cost models around cloud hosting portfolios. Deep understanding of SaaS revenue metrics ARR, NRR, pipeline velocity, close rates, gross margin, CAC, LTV and the ability to build rigorous, defensible models and narratives around them. Experience building and owning product-level P&L models, including revenue, COGS, gross margin, and investment allocation. Practically AI-enabled you actively use AI tools as part of your day-to-day workflow, whether for financial modeling, research, data analysis, or drafting, and you bring the judgment to validate outputs and know when to trust them. Proven ability to work in environments where data is incomplete, definitions are still being established, or infrastructure is maturing and the judgment to produce credible, actionable analysis anyway. A clear and confident communicator who can translate complex financial analysis into narratives for non-finance audiences and who brings a point of view, not just a deliverable. You are Comfortable producing clear, structured analysis in environments where data is incomplete or definitions are still evolving. Familiar with applying cloud infrastructure cost frameworks to unit economics and product-level profitability analysis. Skilled at building financial models that can be translated for non-finance stakeholders. Familiar with applying AI tools to day-to-day analytical work research, modeling, or drafting with the judgment to validate the outputs. Demonstrates a proactive business partnering style engaging stakeholders early, anticipating questions, and bringing recommendations rather than waiting to be asked Measures of success Within your first month, you will Have a working understanding of the R&D cost structure, cloud hosting landscape, and product familiarity Have met key stakeholders across R&D, Product, Sales, and Finance and and begun dialogue on reporting gaps and priorities Have taken ownership of at least one existing reporting segment and running it independently Within your third month, you will Own R&D financial reporting with actionable insights and analysis Build a cloud hosting unit economics model that tracks hosting cost across the portfol

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