Finance Analyst
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The Opportunity
We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Professional Services Financial Analyst to join our Finance team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and enhancing financial forecasts and analysis for our Professional Services business at multiple levels — including product-level, country-level, and regional-level views. You will work cross-functionally with business leaders, regional finance teams, and operations to provide insights that drive strategic decision-making and operational efficiency. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, organized, and have considerable experience compiling a variety of metrics.
About the Team
The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team within Nutanix is a small, high-energy team providing finance partnerships to business leaders across all functions. This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-impact team in a rapidly growing organization. We provide analysis to support strategic outcomes, conduct financial reviews of various business issues and manage financial processes such as planning, forecasting, reporting and tracking performance.
Your Role
- Assist in developing and maintaining product-level bookings, revenue, headcount, and margin forecasts for the Professional Services business.
- Assist in creating and managing country and regional-level forecasts, including bookings, revenue, cost, headcount, and utilization metrics.
- Collaborate with business unit leaders and finance business partners to gather key inputs, assumptions, and drivers.
- Assist in building scalable financial models to support monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting and planning cycles.
- Conduct variance analysis between actuals and forecasts, identifying trends and explaining key drivers.
- Assist in preparing financial reports and dashboards that highlight key insights for senior leadership and regional stakeholders.
- Partner with operations and delivery teams to understand and refine capacity, productivity, and resource allocation assumptions.
- Assist in the development and improvement of tools, templates, and processes to increase forecasting accuracy and efficiency.
- Ensure consistency and integrity of financial data across systems and reporting.
- Participate in ad-hoc projects, financial analysis, and reports as needed to support decision-making.
What You Will Bring
- BA/BS in Finance or Accounting with three to five years of FP&A-related experience, ideally in a professional services or SaaS company
- Strong Financial modeling and Advanced knowledge of Excel, including pivot tables, lookups, database, and logical functions
- Experience with ERP/Planning Systems (Adaptive Planning/NetSuite is a plus)
- Demonstrated experience in forecasting across multiple dimensions (product, geography, business unit)
- Experience with Salesforce, Tableau, and Google Docs a plus
- Ability to think creatively and learn quickly with minimal direction and information.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, detail-oriented and have a commitment to accuracy.
- Must stay organized and prioritize deadlines in a continually evolving environment.
- Strong relationship-building and communication skills, experience and desire to work cross-functionally and be a contributing team member.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Strong understanding of P&L components, especially for a services-based business (revenue recognition, margins, billable vs. non-billable hours, etc.)
Work Arrangement
Remote: This position is primarily remote. There is no specific in-office requirement, however, there may be circumstances where you may be required to come into a local office for a specific purpose, and/or to travel to other locations based on business needs.
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Nutanix is an equal opportunity employer.
Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled. We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by contacting [email protected].