FP&A Senior Analyst - Expense

About Open Sesame

Open Sesame is transforming workforce development with an AI-powered marketplace of 60,000+ skill-building courses and learning pathways. We help organizations build skills and stay compliant through a high-quality content catalog, seamless LMS/LXP integrations, and advanced capabilities like skills-based curation and multilingual content creation. More than 2,000 companies, including 150+ of the Global 2000, rely on Open Sesame to develop the world's most productive and admired work forces.

With our rapid growth, the Finance team is playing an increasingly critical role in guiding business decisions. For someone looking to develop as a financial leader, this is a chance to accelerate their career in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Pulling it off means you'll help shape the future of the company's growth story.

As our business continues to rapidly scale, we need someone who is highly analytical, detail-oriented, and proactive in partnering with leaders across Product, Engineering, Finance, People and Legal. This isn't just reporting on the numbers—it's about providing insights that directly impact revenue growth, profitability, and strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate thrives in a high-growth environment, solves critical business problems, manages complex financial models, and enjoys collaborating cross-functionally.

You'll partner with business leaders and the finance team to drive forecasting, budgeting, and analytics that accelerate revenue growth, expand margins and improve efficiency.

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, People and Legal leaders to provide financial analysis, insights, and reporting.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting processes across functional reporting areas with ownership of labor and non-labor.
• Build and maintain financial models to analyze product line profitability, margin levers, ROI and cost optimization opportunities.
• Own process, forecasting and controls for all headcount, contractors and vendors.
• Benchmark and identify spend and productivity efficiencies across departments.
• Align with Accounting and Engineering on software capitalization policy and strategy.
• Analyze historical trends and business drivers to inform strategic recommendations for leadership.
• Prepare and present monthly and quarterly reporting packages to senior leadership.
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation, and enhanced reporting capabilities.

• Review and understand key schedules & workflows.
• Complete onboarding to financial systems, forecasting tools, and company financial protocols.
• Learn the functional and departmental reporting structures.
• Gain familiarity with product lines, org structure, and models for labor and non-labor.

• Establish strong working relationships with Product, Engineering, Finance, People and Legal leaders.
• Build a comprehensive headcount model that incorporates an integrated requisition process and delivers high visibility into labor costs, hiring timing and attrition by department.
• Refine and templatize product level models, incorporating direct and allocated costs, and key metrics that enhance ability to improve performance.
• Deep dive headcount and vendor economics, identifying key profitability levers.
• Participate in the preparation of monthly and quarterly financial forecasts across COGS, Opex and profitability.

• Recommend and begin implementing at least one process improvement or automation initiative.
• Enhance profit financial modeling by improving accuracy and flexibility in expense forecasts to better support leadership decision-making.
• Present actionable insights on product growth and margin opportunities.
• Begin supporting leader decision making and strategy through tight partnership on budget, investment returns, analyses and key metrics.

This position can be based anywhere in the US. We operate as a remote-first company, and invest in mandatory all-company meetings several times a year in addition to required team travel as necessary.

We're looking for self-starters with a track record of delivering excellent results, but we're highly selective about who we hire. We don't focus on typical job requirements, instead, we're interested in specific examples from your past experiences. All positions can be based anywhere in the US, and require up to 15 days of travel per year, with senior management and leadership teams requiring up to 35 days.

The pay for this position depends on experience and generally ranges between $117,000- $130,000 annually. At Open Sesame, we offer a comprehensive benefits package to employees upon hire, including professional development, ISOs, health insurance, 401(k) matching, and paid time off.

Open Sesame is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer that values and welcomes diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of various legally…