Strategic Finance, Business Partnership

About Us:

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

About The Role:

Our Business Partnership team serves as a trusted advisor to the company, driving our budgeting, forecasting, and monthly-close processes, as well as guiding critical C-level decisions through insightful analyses & thought partnership. We are looking for a bright, driven individual who will partner closely with various cross-functional teams, Accounting, and Procurement to support Executive-level understanding of our financial performance, dial in our forecasting accuracy, and take on strategic projects for decision-makers across GTM, R&D, and G&A functions. We are a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately.

What You'll Achieve:

• Provide deep-dive financial analysis and actionable recommendations that shape departmental and company-wide strategic decisions. Prepare and deliver compelling presentations and reports to senior leadership, translating financial data into clear, actionable narratives.

• Lead monthly and quarterly close processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment of reported results. Identify and implement process improvements to enhance forecasting accuracy, streamline reporting, and increase efficiency.

• Own the development and scalable management of budgets and forecasts, including operating expenses and headcount.

• Conduct in-depth variance analysis and provide clear explanations for variances to further our forecasting accuracy.

• Build and refine financial models to evaluate business performance, investment opportunities, and strategic initiatives.

• Conduct ad-hoc financial analyses to support special projects, strategic initiatives, and executive requests.

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

• 2-5 years of progressive experience in FP&A, accounting, investment banking, consulting, or private equity.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (complex modeling, pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, etc.) and Google Sheets.

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear, concise, and actionable insights.

• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey financial concepts to both finance and non-finance stakeholders, including senior leadership.

• Positive attitude with high aptitude to learn new things quickly. Team player eager to further develop and grow with us.

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity, problem-solving skills, and hunger to continually up-level current approaches and processes.

• Strong work ethic, reliability, and attention to detail - “get it done” attitude.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with financial planning systems (e.g., Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, Pigment, Hyperion, Workday, NetSuite).

• Experience with a high-growth SaaS company

• MBA and/or CPA

• Experience with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite)

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $135,000- $160,000 per year.

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