FP&A Analyst

The Company

At Nylas, we specialize in making it easier for developers to add email, calendar, and contact management features into their applications. We provide APIs, which streamline the integration of these functionalities, ensuring they are secure and effective. This enables better, safer, and more reliable communication within apps.

Supporting over 100,000 developers and collaborating with more than 900 companies globally, Nylas plays a pivotal role in how digital communication tools are built and utilized. Our technology spans various sectors, from healthcare to education, simplifying the complex process of app development related to communications. By reducing the barriers in communication technology, we empower developers to innovate and enhance user interaction across platforms.

The Team

We are a group of dedicated, analytical, and results-driven professionals who are passionate about driving financial strategy and enabling informed decision-making. We challenge ourselves and each other to think critically and grow both personally and professionally.

The Finance team plays a vital role in shaping the financial health and strategic direction of Nylas. We are trusted partners to the business, providing accurate forecasting, insightful analysis, and clear communication of financial performance. Our goal is to empower stakeholders across the company to make sound decisions, achieve strategic objectives, and contribute to a thriving organization – all while fostering collaboration and camaraderie.

The Role

We are looking for an FP&A Analyst who is sharp, resourceful, and genuinely comfortable using AI as a daily work tool. This is not a role for someone who waits to be directed. You will own models, build outputs, field questions from the business, and figure things out independently.

We’re looking for someone with a strong foundation in financial planning and analysis who can operate independently, structure models and analyses with confidence, and deliver insights without needing step-by-step direction.

We also value candidates who embrace AI as a standard part of modern finance work. At Nylas Finance, using AI effectively is an expectation, not a differentiator.

What You'll Do

The work spans the full breadth of FP&A at a high-growth SaaS company:

• ARR and revenue modeling: maintaining driver-based ARR forecast models, platform and product-level forecasting, and preparing data for system uploads

• Working capital and cash flow: building and maintaining dynamic working capital forecasts that tie to operational assumptions

• Customer and cohort analytics: ARR trending by customer segment, churn and expansion analysis, and retention metrics

• Variance analysis: budget vs. actual, period-over-period, and narrative commentary for exec and board audiences

• Ad hoc executive support: rapid-turnaround analyses and summary documents when leadership needs answers fast

How You'll Work

In this role, you’ll be expected to leverage AI tools as a core part of your workflow to improve speed, quality, and impact. This includes drafting summaries, building and refining model logic, transforming data, writing documentation, and producing presentation-ready outputs. Comfort with using AI to enhance your work is essential to success in this role.

What You Must Bring

• Educational and Professional Background:

  • 2-4 years of experience in SaaS FP&A, preferably with experience working on the three statements. You’ve worked closely with department leads, built models to support decision-making, and are comfortable owning planning cycles end-to-end.

  • Strong foundational knowledge of finance and accounting principles, with experience in forecasting, budgeting, and financial modeling.

  • This role is ideal for someone in the early stages of their FP&A career who is ready to step into more ownership, work cross-functionally, and influence business decisions.

• Technical Proficiency:

  • Advanced Excel / Google Sheets — complex financial models, dynamic formula logic, structured data ranges, named ranges, and cross-sheet architecture

  • Proficient with AI tools for knowledge work — you actively use tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or similar to build models, draft analysis, summarize documents, reformat outputs, and think through problems

  • Able to independently produce polished deliverables: Excel models, Word documents, PDF summaries, and presentation decks, without relying on a designer or editor

  • Bonus: familiarity with BI tools (Looker, Tableau, or similar), SQL, or financial systems (NetSuite, Hubspot, Salesforce)

• Analytical and Critical Thinking Skills:

  • You can work backward from a business question to a model structure, not just fill in pre-built templates

  • Strong instincts for what matters - you surface the insight, not just the output

  • Comfortable with ambiguity; able to make reasonable assumptions, document them, and move forward without waiting for perfect data

• Communication and Collaboration:

  • Clear, concise written communication. You can turn a model into a one-page executive summary without losing the substance

  • Able to present findings to senior stakeholders, including the CFO, without requiring heavy pre-prep or hand-holding

  • You ask sharp clarifying questions before going deep on the wrong thing

• Mindset and Ownership:

  • Resourceful by default - when you hit a wall, you find a way around it

  • You take ownership of your work and hold yourself to a high standard of accuracy

  • Growth-oriented: you want to get better at this, not just deliver what was asked

  • Resilient under deadline pressure; you can prioritize competing asks without losing quality

Interview Process

• Round 1: 30 minute Google Meet discussion with the Head of FP&A: Shane Tjin.

• Round 2: 60 minute live case study via a Google Meet discussion with the Head of FP&A: Shane Tjin.

• Round 3: Team loop of three 45 minute Google Meet discussions with various cross-functional leaders.

• Round 4: 45 minute Google Meet discussion with the CFO: Brent Geddes.
  

During the various discussions, candidates selected to meet with us are strongly encouraged to not only discuss their knowledge, skills, experience, and abilities but also to showcase examples of their current or previous work. We expect you to clearly outline the "what," "why," and "how" behind your contributions.

Actual compensation will be determined based on individual qualifications, which are objectively assessed during the interview process. Factors influencing salary include knowledge, skills, experience, and abilities.

Nylas is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states/provinces. If you are not located in or able to work from a state/province where Nylas is registered, you will not be eligible for employment. Visa sponsorship may not be available in certain remote locations.