Sr. Financial Analyst - Enterprise

Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to large, Fortune 100 enterprises with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.

Last year, more than $3.8 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.

Upwork is looking for a Finance Senior Financial Analyst to join the team and have immediate impact and help make sound financial decisions. This position reports into the Senior Finance Manager of the Enterprise FP&A team and will oversee our finance business partnering. Your work will include but is not limited to leading the business partnering with our Enterprise business unit, support of the forecasting and planning process with them, implementing and improving processes, strategic business analyses, driving strategic resource allocation and return on investment (ROI) analyses. 

You are a highly motivated leader and teammate/collaborator, are equally adept at process as ability to think multiple steps out and implications thereof. You are a mentor to your team, leading by example, work well cross-functionally in a team environment, as well as independently. Candidates will be the key stakeholder to executives across the company and guide investment decisions that support the company’s strategic initiatives. 

Your Responsibilities:

• Business partnering across the Enterprise business unit; establish positive relationships with and become a key adviser to senior leaders

• You will roll up your sleeves and drive annual operating plans, quarterly and monthly forecasts for departmental expenses, provide ongoing analysis of actuals versus plan and/or forecast as well as the underlying models

• Drive key analyses to understand optimal customer financial characteristics as well as optimized efficient and effective resource structure

• Partner with FP&A and department heads to ensure accuracy, efficient spending, and decision making rooted in data

• Identify and drive operational improvements; build or enhance reporting and dashboards, trend analysis and provide thoughtful, relevant and insightful information for key decision making

• Partner with the business to create and monitor a return on investment framework around key initiatives 

• Skilled in meticulously cleansing and managing large, complex datasets to ensure data accuracy and integrity.

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