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Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.

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About the Role:

Do you want to help guide financial planning, business operations, and strategic decision making at a Forbes Cloud 100 company? Come join the Finance, BizOps & Strategy (FBOS) team at Gusto.

The FBOS team provides financial, operational, and strategic support at the corporate, departmental, and product level. The team’s mission is to define and defend the business model while accelerating Gusto’s growth.

As part of the Corporate Finance sub team, you’ll be a key player in shaping the financial future of our high-growth SaaS company. You'll work within Pigment, our financial planning system to drive strategic decision-making in areas like financial planning, resource allocation, and executive reporting. Partner across the organization to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and directly contribute to our scaling initiatives. All while learning more about how a finance team at a fast growing SAAS company operates. 

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

  • Work closely with the Finance team & cross functional partners to convert business-planning & scaling use cases into our financial planning system Pigment, and to continuously improve system capabilities.
  • Develop technical solutions to business problems; validate and communicate technical solutions to internal and external team members, test solutions and ensure it meets specifications.
  • Configure and maintain Pigment metrics, lists, dashboards, actions and other model settings to support new business objectives and initiatives.
  • Participate & run design sessions in prototyping new solutions for enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flow
  • Manage ongoing system maintenance and recommend improvements that can drive efficiencies across Finance & Strategy
  • Play a key role in building and execution of the long-term systems & operations roadmap
  • Prepare business users and team members by conducting training

Here’s what we're looking for:

  • 1+ year(s) of experience building in Pigment is required
  • 4+ years of experience building and maintaining models in financial planning tools
  • Experience building, improving, & running scalable processes & workflows 
  • Experience working with FP&A / Strategic Finance functions and familiar with finance processes
  • Ability to build & improve upon processes, reports, and models that meet constantly evolving business requirements in a scalable manner
  • Cross-functional knowledge of system dependencies and process flows including business intelligence, data science and system integrations
  • Strong analytical skills, and a deep interest in problem solving and using technology to improve business processes

Our cash compensation amount for this role is between $101,000 & $119,000 in Denver & most major metro locations, and between $123,000 & $145,000 for San Francisco & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. 

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto. 

Gusto 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. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you require assistance in filling out a Gusto job application, please reach out to candidate-accommodations@gusto.com.

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