FP&A Analyst

Who we are:

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.

Our culture:

- We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #WorkFromAnywhere

- We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.

- We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.

Location:

- Remote - US/Canada

- From Home / Beach / Mountain / Cafe / Anywhere!

- We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed team. You can find your productive zone and work from there.

About the role:

We're looking for an FP&A Analyst to join our Finance team as a true business partner. You'll help own the financial relationship across our business functions - GTM, Engineering, G&A, and beyond - and be the connective tissue between operational activity and financial outcomes.

You'll be actively working with business leaders, pushing for clarity on spend, surfacing risks, and turning data into decisions.

What you'll be doing:

- Own budget vs. actuals analysis across assigned business functions, with clear variance commentary that drives action

- Partner with department heads on headcount planning, vendor spend, and initiative-level ROI

- Build and maintain operating models, forecasts, and scenario analyses

- Support monthly and quarterly close, including accrual analysis, building and adjusting forecasts, and board/leadership reporting

- Develop financial models and dashboards that give leaders real-time visibility into their business

- Identify and surface financial risks and opportunities proactively - not just when asked

- Leverage AI tools and workflows to increase the speed and quality of financial analysis

- Support business leaders in making key decisions about the direction of their organizations

What you'll need:

- 2+ years of FP&A, corporate finance, or accounting experience

- Strong financial modeling skills - you build models others can actually use

- Proven ability to business partner: translate numbers into narratives, push back constructively, influence decisions

- Experience with variance analysis, budget management, and close processes

- Comfort working in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment without heavy process guardrails

- AI-native mindset - you actively incorporate AI into financial workflows and think about how to apply it to analysis, modeling, and reporting

Preferred

- Experience at a high-growth B2B SaaS or fintech company, or a large accounting firm

- Familiarity with Rillet, Ramp, or Abacum (or comparable modern finance stack tools)

- Experience with business intelligence tools such as Sigma

- Experience with SQL

Benefits we offer:

- Generous compensation in cash and equity

- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested

- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture

- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break

- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific

- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific

- MacBook Pro delivered to your door

- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.

- Monthly meal stipend

- Monthly social meet-up stipend

- Annual health and wellness stipend

- Annual Learning stipend

Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.

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