Senior Strategic Finance Associate, G&A

New York City, US (Hybrid) · New York City · San Francisco · USD 160,500-217,500 · 5-8 years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 28, 2026

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Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at mixpanel.com.
Must be located in: San Francisco Bay Area or New York City

Mixpanel is seeking a high-impact Strategic Finance Associate to serve as a domain owner within our Financial Planning and Analysis team.
This role acts as a trusted advisor to functional leaders across the business, owning the end-to-end financial planning process for a major domain.
The position drives the analytical rigor that shapes leadership decisions and designs scalable planning processes.

Own the end-to-end financial planning process for G&A teams — from brief to delivery — setting quality standards and accountability mechanisms that others follow.
Define the 6–12 month financial strategy for your domain, validating assumptions with business partners and translating strategy into financial outcomes and leading indicators.
Build business cases for major investments with clear assumptions, risk quantification, and second-order effects — giving leadership the analytical foundation to make high-confidence decisions.
Design and improve planning processes, tooling, and data definitions that reduce rework across teams and raise the quality of financial outputs org-wide.
Lead cross-functional analyses with clear milestones and owners, resolving forecast disagreements with principled rationale and crisp financial narratives tailored to each audience.
Partner with functional budget owners to ensure data quality, metric consistency, and alignment on assumptions — acting as a cultural anchor for data-driven decision-making.

5–8 years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience with focus on G&A in high-growth SaaS, with demonstrated ownership of a planning domain end-to-end
Proven ability to design planning processes and frameworks — not just operate within them — and to influence decisions across teams without direct authority
Expert-level financial modeling skills; fluent in SaaS unit economics, driver-based forecasting, 3-statement modeling, and scenario/sensitivity analysis
Expertise across G&A; experience partnering with senior functional leaders on budget strategy and investment decisions
Strong SQL skills and experience working with BI tools, FP&A platforms, and ERP systems; comfortable specifying data needs and improving data quality upstream
Excellent communication skills — can distill complex financial analysis into crisp narratives tailored to exec audiences
BS/BA in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or related field