Senior Financial Analyst - Workforce Planning & Forecasting

About the Role

As a Senior Financial Analyst on our team, your responsibilities include financial modeling and analysis, budgeting and forecasting, reporting and variance analysis, business partnering, and data and systems management. This role focuses on optimizing business performance across various expenses, particularly global payroll and resource management. Cohere's mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity by training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. The team is passionate about their craft and values diverse perspectives.

Responsibilities

• Financial Modeling and Analysis: Develop dynamic financial models to evaluate business performance across margins and operating expenses including payroll, and non labor related expenses across S&M, R&D, and G&A teams.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Assist in building and maintaining department-level budgets and company-wide forecasts, working closely with business leaders to align financial plans with operational goals.
• Reporting & Variance Analysis: Prepare monthly reporting packages, analyzing variances between actuals, forecasts, and budgets, and analyze drivers with functional teams.
• Business Partnering: Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., Strategy, Business Operations, Engineering) to provide financial support and help drive performance.
• Data & Systems Management: Leverage financial systems (e.g., NetSuite, Google Sheets/Excel) to ensure data accuracy, streamline processes, and improve reporting efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Accounting, or related quantitative field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A with an emphasis on global payroll and resource management and running month-end operations.
• Expert level Excel/Google Sheets financial modeling skills; familiarity with ERP systems.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills, including effective communication skills at all levels within the Company and the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to deliver change, improve and streamline processes, drive efficiency, and influence stakeholders.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, constantly involving environments.

Qualifications

• MBA, CFA, or CPA is a plus.
• Startup/scaleup experience is a plus.