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# Senior Financial Analyst at Payscale

- **Company:** Payscale
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/payscale/69fe2644-0eb5-4351-a1c7-b66ef2b97ecb

## Job description

## About Payscale

Payscale is the pioneer of compensation intelligence, helping organizations make smarter pay decisions that drive business performance. For more than 20 years, Payscale has combined trusted market data with AI-powered technology to deliver actionable insights that turn pay from a cost into a catalyst for growth. The Payscale Intelligence Cloud portfolio of solutions — Ascent, JobNav, and Paycycle — empower top companies and businesses like Cintas, Leidos, Chipotle, Ohio State University, and TJX Companies. Create confidence in your compensation. Payscale. To learn more, visit [www.payscale.com](http://www.payscale.com). Job Summary Payscale is looking for the newest member of its Finance team. We are a $200m ARR, highly profitable, SaaS company that needs a smart, motivated, rigorous, and diligent individual to join our FP&A group. This is a role where you will be “in it” and expected to get your hands dirty every day. You’ll join a team whose leaders have public company (including IPO) experience, who themselves report to a CFO that came up through the ranks of FP&A. Meaning that, the team knows what great looks like, and the bar will be high. We are looking for someone with thick skin who can get things done. If you don’t possess a sense of urgency, drive, and just-get-it-done-ness, this is the wrong role for you. If you are looking for a great environment to 1) learn (or learn more) about a SaaS business, 2) be put into a position where you can make a difference to the business every day, and 3) help drive a multi-hundred-million-dollar company to a successful financial exit in the next few years, then this will be a great role for you. We are looking for individuals who both know and have the capacity to learn—including a genuine interest in using AI to automate tasks, sharpen analyses, and drive efficiency across how we work. You’ll get exposure to a wide range of FP&A projects and partner cross-functionally with teams throughout the business. You will be expected to interview, both technically and for fit, and your references will be checked. While you can be anywhere in the States, please note that the FP&A leadership is located on the West Coast of the United States. If you have read this far and believe that you have the right combination of attitude, aptitude, drive, and integrity, then let’s talk. And here’s the great thing about this role: you’ll be given exposure and responsibilities commensurate with how good your work product is, not necessarily how senior you are. What that means is that if you produce high quality materials and analyses, you’ll get to present them and participate in the decisions made around them. Who You Are:

- You are an inquisitive individual and like to understand how things work.
- AI-forward: you are genuinely interested in AI and eager to use it to automate manual tasks, improve workflows, and realize efficiencies in how FP&A work gets done.
- You have a strong bias towards building (and rebuilding) things instead of simply maintaining existing processes. When you do run processes, you’re always thinking about how to make them better.
- You like to dive into the data, run analyses, and then help make recommendations to others on how we can improve.
- You’re adept at building relationships across the organization, helping translate what the numbers mean to others and what we should do about it.

What You'll Do: As a Senior Financial Analyst, your day-to-day responsibilities may include:

- Assist us in building best-in-class financial operations, data accuracy, forecasting capabilities, and actionable analyses
- Leverage AI to automate and accelerate: use AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, streamline reporting and workflows, and free up time for higher-value analysis
- Embrace our culture of rigor, discipline, accuracy, consistency, and accountability, both in the FP&A org and across the entire business
- Work with your teammates, peers, and partners in the business to understand the underlying trends and metrics driving our business and develop ways to influence the direction we are heading
- Engage in real, robust business partnering to help drive efficiencies, best practices, and optimal risk taking across the business
- Drive operational improvements throughout all aspects of the business, across all three financial statements
- Learn our financial reporting tool (Adaptive Insights) and use it in your day-to-day workflows
- Ad-hoc scenario analysis that drives actionable business changes.
- Lead your portion of the monthly close process; investigate and resolve issues and then communicate to your peers and partners
- Help develop and execute financial strategies that align with the company's growth objectives

What We're Looking For:

- 4+ years of financial analysis experience or a related field. Multiple years of experience in a relevant environment is more important than any specific amount of time. Relevant experience means SaaS/tech, PE or VC backed, and a high intensity environment. Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. We do want to see steady progression in your career.
- Experience in a SaaS business model is a strong positive, but we are ultimately looking for talent and fit
- Demonstrated experience with go-to-market (GTM) FP&A reporting and analytics within a SaaS environment, including forecasting and analyzing ARR, bookings, pipeline, and the key drivers of revenue across segments such as new business, upsell, renewal, and churn.
- We are a Microsoft shop. Please have excellent Excel skills, or be able to get there fast
- Please be highly analytical, with a keen eye for detail and a learning mindset.
- Possession of excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial data to non-financial stakeholders.
- Be ok with working very hard, while being rewarded for it

Skills You Have:

- Technical: you are proficient in Excel and have used Adaptive Insights in the past (or some sort of FP&A planning tool)
- Accuracy: you strive for excellence and have great attention to detail.
- Time management: you understand and are flexible when we need to re-prioritize work based on the needs of the business.

Tools You’ll Use:

- Adaptive Insights
- Netsuite
- Salesforce
- Tableau
- Snowflake

Location Payscale has an employee-centric remote-first model that provides you the flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you, while also finding time to collaborate in person for the moments that matter.

In our remote-first model, employees can work from the location that works best for them. We do not have centralized corporate offices. Employees can choose to work from home, in company-paid co-working spaces, or any combination of the two that best suits their unique needs. If you work from home, we recommend ensuring that you can meet the following technology, equipment, and workspace requirements:

- High-Speed Internet - A stable broadband or fiber connection (satellite is highly discouraged) with a minimum speed of 100 Mbps in a dedicated workspace that has a reliable Wi-Fi signal.
- Device for Multifactor Authentication (MFA/2FA) - smartphone, tablet, etc.

When it matters (usually no more than a few times a year), we take the time to gather for in-person events. Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, UK, The Philippines, and Romania however we are currently unable to hire in Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii.

## Benefits and Perks

All around awesome culture where together we strive to live our 5 values:

- Data informed decision making.
- Customer first. Always.
- Succeed together.
- Relentless about results. Obsessed with excellence.
- Lead the change. Shape the standard.

An open and inclusive environment where you’ll learn and grow through programs and resources like:

- Monthly company All Hands meetings
- Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs
- Access to continued learning & development opportunities
- Our commitment to a continuous feedback culture which allows us to drive performance and career growth
- A growing network of Employee Resource Groups
- Company sponsored volunteer hours
- And more!

Our more standard benefits

- Flexible paid time off, giving you the opportunity to rest, relax and recharge away from work
- 14 Paid Company Holidays, includes 2 floating holidays (you choose!)
- A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale
- Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through our medical plans
- Additional supplemental health benefits offered to you and your family
- 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations
- Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment

Equal Opportunity Employer: We embrace equal employment opportunity. Payscale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs. We know the [confidence gap](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-confidence-gap/359815/) and [imposter syndrome](https://fortune.com/2024/06/21/high-functioning-achievers-imposter-syndrome-career-ladder/) can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you. If you have a disability or impairment and need assistance with the application process, please email recruiting@payscale.com for support. Fraud Alert: Payscale values security and privacy. During your job application and interview process, we will never ask for your personal banking or financial information, social security number, or other sensitive information, if you are unsure if a message is from Payscale, please email recruiting@payscale.com

## About Payscale

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Payscale provides a compensation intelligence platform that delivers real-time market data, software, and services to help organizations make confident, fair, and strategic pay decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Backed by growth equity)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, USA
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Joe Giordano (co-founder), Mike Metzger (co-founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Human Resources Technology, Compensation Management, Pay Equity, HR Data & Analytics
- Target customers: B2B, Mid-market to Enterprise (HR teams, compensation leaders, people managers); also serves SMBs. Supports over 16,000 customers, including 50%+ of the Fortune 500.
- Mission or purpose statement: To help organizations transform pay decisions from an uncertain compromise to a confident commitment, and to make sustainable, fair pay a reality.

## Products & Services
- **Compensation Intelligence Platform**: A SaaS platform that aggregates real-time, HR-reported market data with AI-powered insights. It replaces spreadsheets and guesswork, enabling users to price jobs, build salary structures, and model compensation scenarios.
- **Pay Equity & Transparency Solutions**: Software and services to help companies analyze, report, and close pay gaps based on gender, race, or other demographics.
- **Compensation Consulting & Services**: Expert-led services for complex compensation strategy, job architecture, and custom market analysis.
- **Market Data & Surveys**: Access to a massive dataset of compensation information, covering millions of employees, with deep benchmarks across industries and geographies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Private company).
- **Key Metric**: Manages over **$2.3 trillion** in employee salaries through its data platform. Priced over **7 million jobs** in 2024.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by growth equity firms. Key partners and customers include major enterprises like Target, eBay, and Angel City Football Club.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid growth phase with a remote-first workforce of 746 team members across 44 US states and 7 countries. In 2024, the company saw 62 internal hires and an average employee tenure of 3.9 years.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data Moat**: Over 20 years of compensation data collection, covering 60M+ employees and 20% of the US workforce. This depth and history of HR-reported data is a significant barrier to entry.
- **Market Leadership**: Consistently recognized as a leader with 500+ 5-star reviews and a reputation for the best user experience and vendor satisfaction in the market.
- **Integrated Platform**: Combines data, software, and consulting into a single source of truth, moving beyond simple data aggregation to provide actionable, strategic workflows.
- **Commitment to Fair Pay**: Deeply integrated mission around pay equity and transparency, which is both a differentiator and a core part of its product DNA.

## Strategic Focus
- **Innovation & AI**: Integrating AI to accelerate data analysis and provide predictive insights, moving from "gut-feel" to data-informed decisions.
- **Expanding Enterprise Reach**: Deepening capabilities for complex, global enterprises while maintaining a strong mid-market presence.
- **Pay Transparency Leadership**: Shaping industry standards for pay transparency, both for its customers and internally (e.g., posting pay ranges in all job postings, using its own software).
- **Data Quality & Coverage**: Continuously improving the freshness, granularity, and breadth of its compensation data.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First & Flexible**: A strong remote-first culture with team members across the US and globe. The company promotes work-life balance and provides an annual remote work stipend for wellness or home office equipment.
- **Mission-Driven & Transparent**: Employees work on a product that directly impacts fairness and equity. The company practices what it preaches with internal pay transparency, open conversations about pay, and yearly salary range reviews.
- **Growth & Development**: In a period of rapid growth, offering opportunities for professional development, paid development hours, and regular access to executive leadership.
- **Strong Culture & Values**: Core values include "Data Informed Decision Making," "Customer First," and "Relentless about Results." A high-trust environment with a focus on belonging, supported by Employee Resource Groups (e.g., Pride at Payscale, Women and Gender Minorities in Tech).
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: Includes flexible PTO, 16 weeks paid parental leave, 100% covered medical/dental/vision for US employees, and a company-matched 401k. Notably, **57% of leadership roles are held by women**.

## Sources
1. [Payscale Careers Page](https://www.payscale.com/careers)
2. [Payscale Official Website](https://www.payscale.com/)
3. [Payscale About Us Page](https://www.payscale.com/about)
4. [Payscale LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/payscale)
5. [Payscale on Built In](https://builtin.com/company/payscale)

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