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title: 'Strategic Finance Analyst at Posthog'
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# Strategic Finance Analyst at Posthog

- **Company:** Posthog
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/PostHog/b0362f5c-ce12-42cd-9e8d-f2d3085b00a0

## Job description

## About PostHog

PostHog is your product’s context layer. It ingests and stores your analytics, errors, replays, and business data so you and your agents can query and act on it. [We launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort](https://posthog.com/handbook/story). We've since shipped more than a dozen products, including:

- A suite of analytics and observability tools, including [product analytics](https://posthog.com/product-analytics), [replay vision](https://posthog.com/replay-vision), [AI observability](https://posthog.com/ai-observability), and [error tracking](https://posthog.com/error-tracking)
- [PostHog MCP](https://posthog.com/mcp) for users and their agents to query and act on their product and business data
- [Data warehouse](https://posthog.com/context-warehouse/managed-warehouse) so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.

We are:

- Product-led. More than 500K organizations have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.
- [Default alive](https://paulgraham.com/aord.html). Revenue is growing incredibly quickly, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.
- Well-funded. We've raised more than $180m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.

We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and [being as weird as possible](https://posthog.com/deskhog).

Things we care about

- Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our [public company handbook](https://posthog.com/handbook). Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.
- Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. [Engineers lead product teams](https://posthog.com/handbook/wide-company) and [make product decisions](https://posthog.com/handbook/which-products). Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.
- Shipping fast: [Why not now?](https://posthog.com/handbook/values#why-not-now) We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of [cracked engineers](https://posthog.com/founders/cracked-manifesto) who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.
- Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are [meeting-free days](https://posthog.com/handbook/company/culture#were-on-the-makers-schedule), and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.
- Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an [objectively unnecessary developer toy](https://posthog.com/deskhog) with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.

Job Summary Help us understand how PostHog grows, what that growth costs, and what we should plan for next. Working directly with our Finance team, you’ll own the day-to-day consolidated financial model, expense planning, and board reporting, with their guidance. You’ll explain differences between actual results and plans, partner with team leads on hiring and spending decisions, and ask thoughtful questions that challenge our assumptions.

## What you’ll be doing

- Corporate planning and consolidation
- Maintain the integrated three-statement forecast: income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow. Keep actuals, assumptions, and scenarios consistent and easy to follow.
- Own the quarterly board pack and investor reporting. Report costs versus plan each month and explain what changed. Support fundraising analysis when needed.
- Operating expenses and business partnering
- Work with team leads to track hiring and vendor spending. Update the forecast each month and explain changes.
- Set up monthly planning reviews so team leads can see their spending outlook and discuss changes.
- Revenue and commercial analysis
- Support Mine's revenue modeling, check inputs and calculations, document assumptions, and explain performance versus plan.
- Run the weekly revenue update when Mine is out.
- Example public issues/projects: The models and board materials are internal. These links provide public context for example projects.
- Build a consolidated forecast and monthly reporting pack. Public context: [Finance team](https://posthog.com/teams/finance)
- Build a headcount and vendor-spend forecast that shows what changed each month and which decisions need review. Public context: [Spending money](https://posthog.com/handbook/people/spending-money)
- Build an infrastructure cost forecast and show how cost per product changes as usage grows. Public context: [Pricing and usage-based products](https://posthog.com/pricing)

## What you won't be doing

❌ Sales Ops execution (deal desk, contracts, credits/refunds, commission calculations, policy implementation) ❌ Accounting close, revenue recognition, collections, and the GL ❌ Billing-system engineering or ownership of the data platform. The analyst uses and checks these teams' outputs for planning.

## Requirements

- Build and debug an integrated three-statement model in Excel or Google Sheets. Make assumptions explicit, add checks, and test scenarios.
- Turn an unclear business question into a model. Separate facts from assumptions and explain which inputs drive the answer.
- Reconcile model outputs to source data and investigate discrepancies. Keep forecasts and reporting accurate and up to date.
- Explain why results differ from plan, get useful inputs from team leads, and follow up on missing information.
- Ask questions, challenge assumptions constructively, and want to learn how a software business works.
- AI is part of how you work. You use tools to build and check models, write SQL, and automate reporting, and you can show us examples of this.
- Work in a small team where processes are still being built.

If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!

## #LI-DNI

## About Posthog

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform that provides a suite of tools for product engineers to build, analyze, and improve their products.
- **Entity Type**: Private (revenue over $50M, default-alive, venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Fully remote (team distributed across 20+ countries, no central office)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Product analytics, developer tools, data infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprises, SMBs, and startups – especially product engineers and data teams
- **Mission**: "Help product engineers build successful products" [[posthog.com/about]](https://posthog.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Product Analytics**: Core analytics tool for tracking user events, funnels, retention, and insights. SaaS with self-hosted option.
- **Session Replay**: Record and replay user sessions to understand behavior.
- **Feature Flags**: Gradually roll out features and experiment with A/B testing.
- **Data Warehouse & CDP-lite**: Managed warehouse with 120+ integrations, SQL editor, BI, and a customer data platform layer.
- **A/B Testing**: Native experimentation tool integrated with feature flags.
- **API & Webhooks**: Programmatic access and event streaming.
- **Error Tracking & App Monitoring**: (Product OS suite) – observability and exception tracking.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue > $50M (stated on careers page) [[posthog.com/careers]](https://posthog.com/careers)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (used by 65% of each batch); investors and partners are not detailed in provided sources.
- **Growth Signals**: 190,254+ customers; 98% use the free tier; company has grown to 200+ team members; highly transparent (public handbook, roadmap, and salary calculator).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source core**: Codebase publicly auditable, fostering trust and community contributions.
- **Extreme transparency**: Public salary calculator, company handbook, roadmap, and even investor communications.
- **Usage-based pricing**: Generous free tier (1M events/mo), matches cheapest major competitor, no sales calls required.
- **Wide product suite**: Single platform replaces multiple tools (analytics, session replay, feature flags, data warehouse, etc.).
- **Remote-first culture**: 100% remote, global team, asynchronous communication, and no micromanagement.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Continuing to expand the "Product OS" suite to cover every tool a product engineer needs; maintaining razor-thin pricing to drive scale; fostering an autonomous small-team structure to ship fast.
- **Growth direction**: Deepening integrations and data connectivity, moving upmarket with enterprise features while preserving self-serve, and expanding AI/observability products.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first**: Fully remote with no geo-restrictions; $300/mo co-working budget and $1,500/quarter travel budget for team meetups.
- **Culture**: "We're weirdos, low egos, and biased for action." Two meeting-free days per week (Tuesdays and Thursdays).
- **Benefits**: Unlimited PTO (minimum 25 days/year), generous parental leave, yearly company off-sites and hackathons, $1,000 paid SuperDay for candidates.
- **Equity**: 10-year exercise window, double-trigger acceleration, employee secondaries (first tender offer in 2025).
- **Transparent pay**: Salary and equity ranges publicly listed (e.g., Product Engineer: $270,750 – $296,400 + significant equity). Full calculator available before applying.
- **Autonomy**: Organized into small, autonomous teams (like "startups within a startup") with direct reporting to execs and minimal hierarchy.

## Sources
1. [posthog.com/about](https://posthog.com/about) – Company overview and mission
2. [posthog.com/](https://posthog.com/) – Homepage with product details and pricing
3. [posthog.com/careers](https://posthog.com/careers) – Revenue, team size, compensation, and interview process
4. [posthog.com/handbook/company/culture](https://posthog.com/handbook/company/culture) – Remote culture, transparency, and values
5. [posthog.com/handbook/wide-company](https://posthog.com/handbook/wide-company) – Small team structure and autonomy

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