Senior FP&A Analyst, Cloud Hosting

As a Senior FP&A Analyst, Cloud Hosting, you’ll be a finance partner on GitLab’s Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. Reporting to the Manager, FP&A, you’ll provide timely, fact-based analysis and decision support for cloud and AI infrastructure investments. You’ll turn complex financial, billing, and operational data into clear insights that help engineering and finance leaders make informed decisions.

What You’ll Do

• Manage and report on cloud and AI-related expenses, maintaining forecast models that incorporate actual results, usage drivers, and business drivers.
• Execute recurring month-end close activities, including accruals, allocations, reconciliations, variance analysis, and close commentary.
• Support forecasting and annual planning cycles, and build or enhance financial models to answer new and evolving business questions.
• Partner with engineering, product, procurement, accounting, and finance stakeholders to gather inputs, resolve data questions, explain results, and support spending decisions.
• Access and analyze cloud billing information from provider consoles, billing exports, and other data sources, then translate findings into clear narratives, recommendations, and decision-support materials.
• Use AI tools to automate and improve recurring analysis, reporting, data preparation, and other finance workflows while improving data quality, accuracy, scalability, and operating efficiency.
• Own deliverables, communicate progress and risks proactively, and manage changing priorities in GitLab’s distributed, asynchronous environment.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting, or finance business partnering, including exposure to vendor spend, forecasting, variance analysis, and month-end close activities.
• Strong Financial modeling and analytical skills, including the ability to work with detailed data, investigate variances, evaluate financial trade-offs, and build or enhance models from scratch.
• The ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear narratives and recommendations for cross-functional stakeholders.
• The ability to prioritize effectively, work independently, and communicate clearly in an asynchronous environment.
• Experience with cloud and AI vendor spend.
• Cloud cost management and FinOps experience is preferred but not required. What matters is the ability and desire to work with cloud cost data to help business partners make informed decisions.

About the team

The FP&A team partners with executive team members and functional leaders across GitLab to provide timely, fact-based planning support. We support annual planning, the operating plan and long-term financial model, internal financial reporting, and the financial and analytical tools that help make GitLab predictable. We work closely with technology, engineering, procurement, accounting, and FP&A partners. We work in GitLab’s all-remote, asynchronous environment and value clear communication, ownership, mentorship, and the ability to make complex information useful. The FP&A Manager is hands-on and available to help while giving team members opportunities to present to leadership and own their work.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

United States Salary Range $115,200—$194,400 USD

HOW GITLAB SUPPORTS FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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