Grammarly offers a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members can work primarily remotely. Starting in 2022, teams will meet in person every quarter in one of Grammarly’s hubs, currently in San Francisco, Vancouver, New York, and Kyiv. To ensure that teams are able to overlap in their working hours and to meet face-to-face when needed, all team members need to live within three time zones of their direct team.
Grammarly team members who will be collaborating at our San Francisco hub must be based in the United States.
The opportunity
Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, 30 million people and 30,000 teams around the world use our AI-powered writing assistant. All of this begins with our team collaborating in a values-driven and learning-oriented environment.
To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Finance team. The Senior Financial Analyst will report to our Strategic Finance Lead in a high-impact role that supports our business leaders with financial insights and outlooks to make informed strategic and operational decisions.
Your impact
As Senior Financial Analyst, you will be an integral part of building the Finance team at a growing and scaling company. The person will collaborate closely with functional leaders throughout the organization and implement financial analyses and processes that are foundational to the Finance function.
In this role, you will:
- Partner with R&D and G&A business leaders in their strategic decision-making by providing key performance indicators and analyses and helping frame the prioritization of new investments and efficiency opportunities.
- Be responsible for financial planning of operating expenses and headcount.
- Proactively support the business in making major operational expense decisions by analyzing cost drivers, providing key financial assumptions, and advising on trade-offs.
- Lead the creation of frameworks to accelerate decision-making as Grammarly rapidly grows.
- Provide ad-hoc analysis for stakeholders: Manage deep dives into spending categories to identify opportunities and develop frameworks that shape decisions and provide insights.
- Develop a benchmarking capability to identify gaps to best-in-class performance and drive plans to enhance our competitive positions.
- Promote thought leadership in process improvement to scale forecasting and reporting tools, procedures, and methodologies.
We’re looking for someone who
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
- Has 5 to 7 years of experience with a high-tech company in a finance business partner role.
- Ideally has formal training in financial and/or accounting concepts.
- Displays a high level of genuine curiosity about our business, asks lots of questions, and exhibits eagerness to learn.
- Has high aptitude and enthusiasm for complex problem-solving that uses financial modeling, including strong skills with spreadsheets.
- Is highly analytical, detail-oriented, motivated, and dependable—and will thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires adaptability.
- Has excellent verbal and written communication, including skills in PowerPoint or Google Slides.
- Preferably is experienced with SaaS and/or enterprise software business models.
Bonus points for
- Comfort handling large sets of data (including experience with SQL).
- Familiarity with financial planning tools (e.g., Workday’s Adaptive and Anaplan).
- Experience with worksheet automation (e.g., VBA in Excel, JavaScript in Google Sheets).
Support for you, professionally and personally
- Professional growth: We hire people we trust, and we give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
- A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. We have a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER values. We also take time to celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific events and programs.
- Comprehensive benefits: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package that includes superior health care. We also offer support to set up a home office, ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, admission discounts, and more.
We encourage you to apply
At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program.
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Please note that Grammarly’s COVID-19 vaccination policy requires that all team members in North America be vaccinated against COVID-19 to meet in person for Grammarly business or to work from a North America hub location. It is expected that this will be a requirement for this role. Qualified candidates in North America who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or because of a sincerely held religious belief may request a reasonable accommodation to this policy. For Ukraine, this policy requires team members to be vaccinated or produce a daily negative COVID-19 test administered at the Kyiv hub to work from the hub or attend in-person meetings.
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What We Do
Grammarly improves lives by improving communication.
Grammarly’s digital writing assistant helps more than 20 million people write more clearly and effectively every day. In building a product that scales across multiple platforms and devices, Grammarly works to empower users whenever and wherever they communicate.
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