Senior Financial Analyst
Navan
Accounting & Finance, IT
San Francisco, CA, USA
As a Senior Financial Analyst on Navan’s Strategic Finance team, your role will be critical in accelerating Navan’s strategic roadmap and taking on a variety of operational and strategic initiatives. This position requires strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Do:
You will play a key part in Navan’s annual planning, quarterly board reporting, and monthly financial performance review processes, managing project milestones, and developing customized reporting for senior leadership.
- Lead and own monthly/quarterly/annual reporting, while ensuring both accuracy and timeliness
- Develop customized reporting solutions by leveraging advanced analytics and data visualization tools to provide clear insights and recommendations to senior leadership
- Assist with developing and maintaining a complex, fully integrated 3-statement financial model to forecast future financial performance, evaluate risks and opportunities, and support strategic decision-making with data driven insights.
- Capabilities to build and improve models within a framework with principles including consistency and security.
- Partner with stakeholders across departments to identify relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with strategic objectives and business goals - including the development of data sourcing methods, monitoring of KPI trends, analysis of performance against targets, and creation of outputs to visualize key insights
- Collaborate with department leads to track expenses, review forecasts, provide transparent financial insights, and overall be a strategic financial advisor to business partner(s)
- Conduct ad-hoc financial analysis to support strategic decision-making and respond to leadership requests
- Monitor and track project milestones across multiple initiatives, ensuring timely completion and clear communication of any changes or risks
- Identify opportunities to streamline and improve existing financial processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams where necessary
What We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; an advanced degree (MBA, CPA, CFA) is preferred
- 3+ years of work experience, ideally in one of the following areas Investment Banking, Consulting, or Corporate Finance
- Demonstrated ability to produce accurate, high-quality work under tight deadlines and manage multiple priorities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively across teams
- Detail-oriented problem solver with a track record of driving process improvements
- Ability to build trust with stakeholders and leaders across the organization and drive results through soft skills, not through mandates
- Thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving, and high-intensity environments
- Nice to have experience working with NetSuite, Workday, Greenhouse, and Anaplan
About Navan
Navan (Nasdaq: NAVN) is the leading all-in-one business travel, payments, and expense management platform that makes travel easy for frequent travelers. From finding flights and hotels to automating expense reconciliation, with 24/7 support along the way, Navan delivers an intuitive experience travelers love and finance teams rely on. See how Navan customers benefit and learn more at navan.com.
Culture of Excellence
Our team is our competitive edge — a high-performance group of smart, driven people committed to winning together. This dedication to excellence is why we’ve been recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In (2023–2026), a G2 Best Global Software Company (2025-2026), a CNBC Disruptor 50 (2022-2025), and a Forbes Fintech 50 (2022-2025). At Navan, we provide an environment where top talent excels, offering the autonomy and fast-paced trajectory needed to build a defining career and do the best work of your life.
Our Benefits
Navan offers a comprehensive benefits program designed to support your well-being, financial security, and life outside of work. Our benefits, thoughtfully tailored by country to meet local needs, include healthcare coverage, insurance offerings, and wellness resources for you and your family.
We support long-term financial growth through retirement savings programs and opportunities to participate in our equity plans, so you can share in Navan’s success. To promote balance, we offer flexible time off, country-specific holidays, and paid parental leave for all new parents. Additional benefits include connectivity and commuting support, mental health resources, and exclusive travel-related perks. Wherever you’re based, our benefits evolve with you.
Workplace Policy
Navan believes in the value of in-person connections, whether that’s sitting down to have lunch with one another, taking a walking 1:1, or collaborating in a room together. The connections forged through face-to-face interactions improve company culture and drive business results. Navan invests in global office spaces — in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, among others — that feel welcoming. In-office perks such as company-provided lunches and happy hours create a strong team environment to help you do your best work. Our employees work from the office four days a week. Please expect this policy for all roles that are tied to an office.
Equal Opportunity
Navan is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We prohibit any such discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring.
Accommodations
Navan complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local law. Navan will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability in connection with applications for employment as required by law.
If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, you are welcome to email us at [email protected].
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