Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description:

Title: Senior Analyst Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Location: US or Canada (this is a remote position)

Reports to: Finance Director Technology Product & Analytics (or FP&A Leadership as applicable)

Vacancy: This is a New Vacancy

The Role:

The Senior Analyst FP&A will lead core financial planning analysis and performance management activities across JD Powers Product Technology & Analytics organization. This role will own key forecasting and reporting processes develop scalable financial models and executive-ready insights and partner directly with Finance leadership product and engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to shape investment decisions product roadmap prioritization resource allocation and strategic planning in a fast-moving data-driven environment.

This position is well-suited for a seasoned highly analytical finance professional who can independently lead complex analyses influence senior product and technology partners create new planning and reporting capabilities and translate financial insights into clear recommendations that support product and technology priorities across the Product Technology & Analytics organization.

The Impact You Will Have in This Role:

As a Senior Analyst FP&A you will play a lead role in building the financial visibility planning discipline and decision-support infrastructure needed to manage performance across the Product Technology & Analytics organization. You will develop financial frameworks surface risks and opportunities shape recommendations for product and engineering leadership and help drive stronger forecasting SaaS performance tracking and disciplined investment decisions across JD Powers data and analytics portfolio.

What Youll Be Doing in This Role:

Lead budgeting planning forecasting reporting and financial performance management processes for key areas across the Product Technology & Analytics organization.

Create and enhance financial models KPI dashboards reporting tools and planning frameworks that improve executive visibility and enable data-driven product investment decisions.

Use BI tools (Tableau Power BI or similar) SQL and financial systems to design and deliver accurate scalable reporting on technology and product spend investment performance and key business drivers.

Develop insights and recommendations for product and engineering leaders on budget performance variance drivers forecast risks and opportunities investment trade-offs and cost-optimization opportunities across technology investments and vendor spend.

Lead the development of monthly and quarterly executive and board-level materials translating complex financial and operational data into clear narratives for senior technology and product leadership.

Drive cross-functional planning with product managers data scientists and engineers to align roadmap planning investment priorities and resource allocation decisions.

Identify develop and implement process improvements and automation opportunities including use of AI tools and data automation to increase forecast accuracy planning efficiency and executive visibility.

Lead ad hoc financial analyses and special projects for the FP&A leadership CFO and product and technology leadership including framing the business question building the analysis and communicating actionable recommendations.

Qualifications of this Role:

Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Business or a related analytical discipline.

5-8 years of experience in Finance Accounting FP&A corporate finance product/technology operations or a related analytical role; experience supporting executive product and technology leadership is strongly preferred.

Experience working in SaaS/technology companies and private equity portfolio company environments is strongly preferred.

Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills including experience with pivot tables lookups and structured financial analysis; familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI is a strong plus.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

Demonstrated ability to lead financial planning processes create new analytical frameworks influence cross-functional product and technology stakeholders and turn data into executive-level recommendations.

Ability to communicate financial concepts clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Comfort working independently managing ambiguity and adapting to changing priorities.

Familiarity with operating expense management headcount planning forecasting variance analysis and executive reporting is a strong plus. Experience with NetSuite Salesforce Adaptive Planning Tableau Power BI or similar systems is also valued.

The Career Opportunity:

This role offers meaningful ownership of high-visibility FP&A processes and direct exposure to senior Finance Product and Technology leadership. The Senior Analyst FP&A will have the opportunity to build new planning capabilities strengthen reporting and forecast infrastructure and influence product and technology investment decisions across the organization. This role provides a strong platform for future growth into FP&A leadership Strategic Finance Finance Business Partnership or broader business partnering roles at JD Power.

The Team / The Business:

You will work closely with Finance Product Engineering and Analytics leaders across JD Powers Product Technology & Analytics organization. JD Power is a global leader in consumer insights data and advisory services helping organizations across industries make data-driven customer-centric decisions. The Product Technology & Analytics organization plays a critical role in enabling disciplined growth product innovation and data-driven decision support.

The Hiring Manager says:

Im looking for someone who is analytically strong naturally curious and ready to take ownership of high-impact FP&A work across the Product Technology & Analytics organization. This role requires someone who can lead planning and reporting processes build scalable models and tools develop thoughtful recommendations and influence how product and engineering leaders think about investment trade-offs roadmap priorities and performance management. If you enjoy creating structure from complex data partnering with technical and senior stakeholders and helping shape how the business plans and manages performance this is a strong opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Company Mission

Our mission in the market we serve is clear. To power every auto-related decision through proprietary data advanced analytics deep industry expertise and seamless workflows that connect insight to action.

Our Values

We POWER Our Customers Success

We are Innovative Collaborative and Grounded in Data

We Make Things Easy

We Get It Done

We Start with Trust & Prove it Everyday

JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color religion sex national origin age sexual orientation gender identity gender expression veteran status or disability.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1