Senior Finance Analyst - GTM Finance (West Coast)

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Senior Finance Analyst - GTM Finance (West Coast)

Posted 1 week ago

About the job

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader protecting 600,000+ organizations with AI-driven solutions and expert services. This role involves financial analysis, forecasting, and partnering with teams to improve renewal strategies, retention, and decision-making.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or related
  • 4-7 years experience in FP&A or Revenue finance
  • Strong analytical skills and problem solving
  • Experience with complex data environments
  • Proficiency with Excel and BI tools

Qualifications

  • Experience supporting SaaS or subscription businesses
  • Knowledge of revenue metrics like ARR, churn, NRR
  • Ability to navigate imperfect data
  • Experience with SQL, Python, or automation tools
  • Ability to translate data into insights

Full job description

About Us

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.

Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst will serve as the finance lead for Renewal and Customer Success, owning topline and Opex analysis while providing insights into renewal performance, retention trends, and coverage model effectiveness. This role will partner closely with GTM Finance leadership, Renewal Operations, Customer Success, Sales Leadership, and BI to drive forecasting, identify business risks and opportunities, and improve decision-making through data-driven insights.

The ideal candidate is comfortable navigating complex data environments, leveraging AI-enabled tools, and translating analysis into actionable recommendations for business leaders.

This position is expected to provide coverage during West Coast working hours.


What You Will Do

  • Own Renewal and Customer Success topline and Opex analysis, including forecasting, budgeting, and performance reporting.


  • Partner with GTM Finance leadership to analyze renewal performance, retention trends, coverage models, and key drivers of forecast changes.


  • Develop deep-dive analyses across customers, regions, products, renewal cohorts, and coverage models to identify risks, opportunities, and improvement areas.


  • Build insights and reporting to improve renewal forecasting, retention visibility, and decision-making.


  • Identify leading indicators and emerging trends to proactively surface renewal risks.



  • Perform variance analysis across renewal rates, retention, churn, ARR, and forecast performance.


  • Support Renewal and Customer Success forecasting through data analysis, scenario modeling, and risk assessment.


  • Prepare executive-ready analyses for leadership reviews and Board reporting.


  • Partner with Renewal Operations, Customer Success, Sales Operations, and BI to improve data quality, reporting consistency, and metric governance.


  • Translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations for business leaders.




What You Will Bring

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.


  • 4-7+ years of experience in FP&A, GTM Finance, or Revenue Finance


  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable business insights.


  • Comfortable navigating complex, imperfect data environments and solving ambiguous data challenges.


  • Advanced Excel skills and experience with BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker).


  • Experience working with large datasets and partnering with Business Intelligence teams.


  • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini) to improve productivity, accelerate analysis, automate recurring tasks, and enhance decision-making.


  • Strong curiosity, adaptability, and willingness to embrace new technologies and analytical approaches


  • Self-motivated, deliverable-focused, strong work ethic, enthusiastic and ambitious attitude, able to prioritize and resolve an array of issues simultaneously

    • Desired Skills:

    • Experience supporting SaaS or subscription-based businesses.


    • Knowledge of recurring revenue metrics, including ARR, ACV, renewals, churn, GRR, and NRR.



    • Experience with SQL, Python, or other data querying and automation tools.


    • Experience building automated reporting, dashboards, or AI-enabled analytical workflows.


    • Experience with financial planning and analysis tools (e.g., Anaplan, SAP, Oracle, Clari, Salesforce, Adaptive Planning).







In the United States, the base salary for this role ranges from $87,000 to $145,000. In addition to base salary, we offer additional  compensation including bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits package.  A candidate’s specific pay within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including job-related skills, training, location, experience, relevant education, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. 

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Ready to Join Us?

At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.

What's Great About Sophos?

·   Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.

·   Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit

·   Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy

·   Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities

·   Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint

·   Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp

·   Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge 

·   Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

Our Commitment To You

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity.   We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team.  All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation.  We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know. 

Data Protection

If you choose to explore an opportunity, and subsequently share your CV or other personal details with Sophos, these details will be held by Sophos for 12 months in accordance with our Privacy Policy and used by our recruitment team to contact you regarding this or other relevant opportunities at Sophos.  If you would like Sophos to delete or update your details at any time, please follow the steps set out in the Privacy Policy describing your individual rights.  For more information on Sophos’ data protection practices, please consult our Privacy Policy Cybersecurity as a Service Delivered | Sophos

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