Company Description

Payscale is the world leader in modern compensation software. Our rich data and unique algorithms power the world’s largest real-time database of salary profiles, giving both employers and employees immediate visibility into the right pay for any position. We are bringing the dark art of compensation into the light by helping more than 6,500 businesses to stay competitive in the labor market and retain and manage their largest investment: their people.

We’re disrupting the compensation industry and are looking to bring on talented professionals with diverse perspectives. We foster a playful work atmosphere where highly motivated individuals can be truly innovative. Are you bright, tenacious, and inventive? If so, PayScale may be the perfect place for you to grow your career!

We are a fast-growing Warburg Pincus portfolio company who is thrilled to have brought the MarketPay product into our suite of offerings in 2016, and started a strategic alliance with Mercer in 2017. We can't wait for you to join us!

Job Description

What We Do: The Payscale FP&A team is a key part of the business. We emphasize a tight and positive partnership with the business to deliver the best customer experience while instilling a rigorous controllership environment.

What You Do: As a key member of the team, you will play a highly critical and visible role across the Services organization in providing clarity through the use of data, analytics and financial modeling.

Who you are:

• You are an inquisitive individual.
• You have a strong foundation in finance and quantitative analysis but are more than just a spreadsheet jockey or number cruncher.
• You are critical thinker, and a problem solver.
• You love process improvement.

We need someone who has the chops to interpret data, conduct rigorous analysis, and has the confidence to make recommendations and improvements to leadership.

Success in this role requires a high-level of engagement with business partners and therefore requires exceptional interpersonal skills, a focus on teamwork, collaboration, and business sense. You will be a leader in our business, on a high performing team at a fast growing company.

Day-in-the-Life: As a Financial Analyst at Payscale, you will not have a typical day, because our day-to-day can change on a dime. But here's a few things you will do here:

• Understand, extract, and automate data flows into financial software.
• Strive for operational improvement and automation of our financial reporting provided to leadership.
• Prepare monthly metrics reporting support, assist with the monthly operating budget results and forecast updates by collaborating with leadership.
• Work with leadership to understand and develop new ways to analyze our financial results with emphasis on influencing profitability.
• Work at various altitudes, from strategic/high level projects to detailed analysis.
• Ad-hoc scenario analysis that drives actionable business changes.
• Participate in the monthly close process; investigate and resolve issues.
• Assist in other various company projects and initiatives.

Qualifications

Experience:

• 2+ year’s financial analysis experience in the technology industry, preferably SaaS or other subscription models.
• BA/BS Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Admin, or similar discipline with analytical bias.

Skills:

• Technical: you are proficient in Excel and BI tools such as Tableau
• Working knowledge of SQL, and are comfortable working with a data warehouse (specifically Snowflake).
• Time management: you are able to re-prioritize on a moment's notice based on shifting business needs.
• Communication: you are great at effectively working with and communicating to senior leadership.
• Accuracy: you strive for excellence and have great attention to detail.

Tools:

• Adaptive Insights
• Netsuite
• Salesforce
• Tableau
• Snowflake Data Warehouse

Additional Information

Benefits and Perks – The Highlights:

All around awesome culture where together we strive to:

• Pursue excellence every day
• Create customer value
• Compete to win (and lose!) as a team

As part of our culture of transparency and commitment to employee engagement, we have several programs and resources such as:

• Regular virtual company meetings
• Coffee chats
• Table for 4 Executive conversation
• Spirit Week
• Pulsing tools for continuous conversations to drive performance and career growth
• Strengths based tools designed to help employees engage with peers and managers, supported through a program called StandOut
• Access to top notch learning courses for all employees through LinkedIn Learning
• As well as constant re-evaluation of what our employees need to be successful at work!

Our more standard benefits include:

• Flexible Paid Time Off program – most employees average around 3 weeks per year
• 14 paid holidays including Independence Week, Juneteenth and World Mental Health Day
• 3 comprehensive health plans to fit your unique needs; plans have up to 100% company-paid premium coverage for employee Medical, Dental and Vision
• Access to Premera’s Healthcare Services including an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), 24-hour Nurse Hotline, Telehealth (Doctor on Demand), Talkspace, and other virtual care options
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations towards: Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, and Transit
• Company Paid Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• Comprehensive Paid Parental / Adoption Leave program
• 401k program with fully vested, immediate company match

Equal Opportunity Employer: We embrace equal employment opportunity.

PayScale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs.