Senior Financial Analyst - R&D

Finance & Accounting | Sydney, Australia | Remote, Remote | Full-Time

Atlassian is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Financial Planning & Analysis team (FP&A). In this visible position, you'll oversee the operational plan of several key parts of Atlassian R&D organization. You will play a meaningful role in influencing both the company and product & platform strategy. You will partner directly with both senior R&D leadership and senior FP&A leadership providing leadership and analytical rigor for the company’s annual planning and monthly/quarterly forecasting processes.

More about you:

In this role, you'll get to:

• Serve as a key business partner for R&D leadership and provide financial analysis, decision support analysis, financial modeling and provide ad-hoc analytical support.

• Execute on Atlassian’s forecasting, annual planning and financial long-range planning partnering closely with R&D leadership, building financial models for new concepts.

• Manage the month end, quarter end and year end processes to support management and corporate reporting requirements.

• Create financial reporting that provides actionable insights to the team.

• Own the communications strategy for all planning changes which includes executive level and detailed project briefs and status updates.

On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

Qualitative:

• Ability to prioritize objectives in a fast-paced environment to ensure key deliverables are met in a timely manner

• Experience with simultaneously managing multiple business stakeholders' budgets

• Excellent critical thinking, organizational, and prioritization skills

• Demonstrate attention to detail and follow-through

• Team player who can also self-initiate

• Possess a strong work ethic with a “get-it-done” attitude

• Strong critical thinking, organizational, and collaboration skills

• An effective communicator who is concise, timely, and able to explain finance and accounting to non-finance partners

• Efficient with managing tasks that require collaboration with stakeholders in different time zones

• Comfortable with senior leaders and even challenging the status quo when it's in the business’s best interests

Quantitative:

• A minimum of 5 years of FP&A experience

• Solid experience with planning and budgeting processes, financial forecasting, P&L management, interpreting and reporting business performance results

• Prior software sector experience is highly preferred, Cloud/SaaS is a strong plus.

• Experience supporting an R&D / Product organization

• Advanced proficiency in financial modeling

• Strong technical fundamentals - excel, but also exposure to planning tools (Anaplan), database / data warehousing concepts and finance systems (CRM & ERP)

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Finance, Accounting, Economics), MBA and/or CPA is a plus