Sr Analyst, FP&A
Elastic · Posted Oct 9
Search, observability, security, and analytics platform services
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About the role
Elastic is the Search AI Company, and its Search AI Platform is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500 to bring together search and AI across structured and unstructured data for search, security, and observability. The India finance team supports financial planning, reporting, and analysis for Elastic's global finance function. This Senior FP&A Analyst role partners with business leaders, delivers reporting and forecasting, owns core finance operations, and uses AI tools to re-engineer FP&A processes.
What you will do
- Financial Partnership — Act as a trusted finance partner to business and functional leaders, providing timely reporting, dashboards, and visibility into operational spend. Serve as the primary point of contact for financial analytics and ad-hoc requests.
- Reporting & Analysis — Deliver management reporting packages, business scorecards, and financial models for senior leadership. Build and maintain dashboards using Tableau, Sigma, or similar tools — with a focus on real-time reporting.
- Forecasting & Budgeting — Support rolling forecasts, annual budgeting, and monthly budget vs. actual analysis using Pigment. Monitor KPIs, highlight trends, and deliver clear variance commentary.
- Core Finance Operations — Own month-end and quarter-end close activities including expense accruals, journal entries, variance analysis, and supporting schedules.
- Technology & Business Transformation — Lead re-engineering of FP&A processes using AI tools (Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Gemini) and Excel. Propose and implement new tools, drive automation adoption across finance, and upskill teams on new ways of working. Use generative AI to accelerate variance commentary, financial narratives, and reporting outputs. Validate AI-generated insights critically before presenting to leadership. Ensure accurate reconciliation across Adaptive, Pigment, Workday, and NetSuite. Maintain data quality as the foundation for reliable reporting and a single source of truth.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience — 5–8 years in a finance function with exposure to business transformation, process re-engineering, or finance automation. CA / MBA / CMA preferred.
- AI & Automation Fluency — Hands-on experience using AI tools (Copilot, Claude, Gemini, or similar) in a finance workflow — an active user, not just someone aware of the tools. Experience with Pigment, Adaptive, or NetSuite is a strong plus.
- Transformation Mindset — Spots manual, repetitive processes and drives smarter alternatives. Comfortable proposing new tools and building the case for change.
- Collaboration & Teaching — Works cross-functionally, shares knowledge, and coaches peers on automation and new tools. Makes the team around them better.
- Communication — Simplifies financial complexity for non-finance stakeholders at all levels. Comfortable working across global teams and time zones.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Elastic
Elastic is a search AI company that builds self-managed and SaaS offerings for search, logging, security, observability, and analytics. Powered by the Elasticsearch platform, the company helps thousands of organizations worldwide transform massive volumes of data into actionable insights and real-time answers. Its modern search solutions are widely integrated across enterprise tech ecosystems to support advanced AI applications and automated security workloads.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 5001-10000 employees
- Founded
- 2012
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $162M raised
- 2012-11-01Series A$10M
- 2013-03-01Series B$24M
- 2014-06-05Series C$70M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Chief Financial Officer
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