Sr. Financial Analyst - East coast time zone

This is not your typical FP&A role. At Mitek, our FP&A team plays a critical role in shaping how we allocate capital, evaluate investments, and drive company performance - not from the sidelines, but as hands-on operators.

We believe a variance analysis, budget, or report has no intrinsic value on its own - it’s only valuable if you connect the dots from “What happened?” to “Why?” and ultimately to “So now what should we do?”. 

That’s what this role is about: turning numbers into actions that move the company forward.

We’re looking for someone who’s very strong in the fundamentals - Excel modeling, forecasting, reporting - and wants to apply those skills to help shape how we operate and invest. You thrive in the world of public company software FP&A, bring experience with Adaptive (Workday) or a similar FP&A planning software, and understand the nuances of working in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial team that loves building things from the ground up. You’ll play a critical role across the FP&A cycle: planning, tracking, and helping us course-correct in real-time, and you'll see your impact directly in the decisions we make and the results we deliver.

You’ll be a finance business partner to multiple departments across the company - from R&D to Sales, Marketing, and beyond - supporting budgets, headcount, vendor spend, strategic analysis, and investment decisions. As a capital allocator, you’ll be entrusted with helping the business deploy resources where they can create the most value out of our assets.

We need someone technical, detail-oriented, and ready to elevate and accelerate the financial engine behind how we operate. If you think like an investor, act like an owner, and want your work to directly influence the company’s next move - this is your seat at the table.

Why join Mitek? We’re not here to rubber stamp budgets - we’re here to help the company move faster, invest smarter, and grow value. This is a high-exposure team that partners directly with the CEO, CFO, and business leaders - shaping how we think about growth, focus, and capital allocation. You’ll learn directly from the VP, Finance & Investor Relations, who brings experience across hedge fund investing, strategic finance and FP&A. That means exposure to how operators run companies - and how investors evaluate them. 

It’s the kind of experience you won’t get in a typical FP&A role - and the kind of insight that will raise your game for the rest of your career. 

What You’ll Do (Essential Responsibilities)

• Build and maintain driver-based forecasting models tied directly to business drivers.
• Work comfortably in Adaptive (Workday) to update forecasts, manage budgets, and ensure reporting is accurate and up to date.
• Build and maintain Tableau dashboards that give business operators and leaders self-service, real-time visibility into their performance, budgets, and key KPIs.
• Support monthly and quarterly reporting processes with clear, visual, decision-useful outputs that go beyond static decks.
• Partner with operational leaders to understand what’s working, what’s not, and where to double down.
• Turn data into decisions — identify trends, flag risks, and recommend actions that drive revenue and margin.
• Contribute to long-range planning, scenario modeling, and forecast updates.
• Support go-to-market strategies with financial insights on pricing, payback, customer health, and ROI.
• Build reporting that actually gets used — simple, visual, and focused on what matters.
• Bring a finance lens to every conversation: resource allocation, efficiency, trade-offs, and growth strategy.

What Success Looks Like in Year One

• You’ve built or upgraded the forecasting model for your area - and Execs use it to steer key decisions. 
• You’ve identified at least one major business inefficiency and helped reallocate spend to higher ROI areas. 
• You’ve become a go-to finance partner for your area - respected for speed, clarity, and judgment. 
• You’ve helped us say “no” to the wrong projects, and double down on the right ones - and backed it up with data. 
• You’ve improved how we plan, report, and execute across our FP&A cycle - more signal, less noise. 

Who Are You / What Sets You Apart

• Keen attention to detail. 
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills. 
• Superb analytical and critical thinking abilities. 
• Advanced time-management and organizational skills. 
• You are an excellent financial modeler - you love building models that are fast, flexible and accurate. 
• You don't just pull numbers - you pressure test assumptions and look for inconsistencies. 
• You simplify complexity, communicate clearly, and stay focused on what moves the needle. 
• You take ownership - you don’t wait to be asked, and you raise your hand when something doesn't look right. 
• You’re comfortable in the gray - quick to form a view, clear on the trade-offs, focused on outcomes. 

What You Need (Key Requirements)

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related field.
• Direct experience in FP&A at a public SaaS/software company — you understand the metrics, operating cadence, and expectations of a listed technology business.
• 5+ years in FP&A or strategic finance.
• Ability and willingness to work east coast US hours.
• Thrive working independently and remotely - highly task-oriented, self-motivated, and focused on delivering outcome-driven results.
• Strong financial modeling skills - have built and owned driver-based, 3-statement models that guide real decisions.
• Experience with core FP&A workflows: budgets, forecasts, headcount models, and variance analysis.
• Comfortable working within public company reporting cycles, earnings prep, and investor-grade analysis.
• Comfortable working with large datasets and translating them into actionable insights.
• Experience with FP&A planning tools (Adaptive [Workday] or equivalent).
• Experience with ERP systems (NetSuite or equivalent).
• Experience with CRM systems (Salesforce or equivalent).
• Experience with data warehouse tools (Snowflake or equivalent).
• Experience with BI/dashboarding tools (Tableau or equivalent).
• Experience with HRIS/payroll systems (Dayforce/Ceridian or equivalent).

What Would be Nice (Preferred Skills)

• Experience with implementation and system design of Adaptive (Workday).
• Strong command of advanced Excel functions (INDEX/MATCH, SUMIFS, scenario toggles, etc.).
• Experience modeling compensation plans, headcount growth, vendor spend, and overhead allocations.
• Ability to build audit-proof models that are easy to follow, maintain, and scale.
• Experience in SaaS metric design and definition (e.g., ARR, CAC, payback, CLTV/LTV, churn) and applying them in decision-making.
• Ability to work with complex, imperfect datasets — knowing how to validate, refine, and transform them into accurate, actionable insights.
• Prior experience partnering with operational teams such as R&D, Sales, Marketing, or other business units with budget ownership and cost discipline.
• Experience improving forecasting accuracy, reporting speed, or decision-making through process automation or data visualization enhancements.
• A great sense of humor - we take the work seriously, but not ourselves (if you can make the FP&A team laugh during quarter end board deck preparation, you'll fit right in!)