Senior Financial Analyst, Product - Hybrid in Minneapolis
NMDP Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · $90K–$110K/yr
Non-profit Organizations · 1,001-5,000 employees
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About the role
The Senior Financial Analyst serves as a strategic partner to product and business teams, providing financial insights to drive product investments and portfolio optimization. They are responsible for leading financial planning, forecasting, and pricing strategies while ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics and 5–8 years of experience in FP&A or corporate finance. Strong financial modeling skills, proficiency in Excel, and the ability to influence business decisions through data analysis are required.
Benefits
Full description
POSITION SUMMARY: The Senior Financial Analyst – Product Finance serves as a strategic partner to Product, Strategy, and cross-functional teams, providing financial insights and decision support to drive product investments, portfolio optimization, and long-term value creation. This role is responsible for integrating financial analysis with product strategy, ensuring that investment decisions, pricing models, and product roadmaps are aligned with organizational goals and financial stewardship. The ideal candidate combines strong FP&A expertise with a deep understanding of product economics, customer value drivers, and data-driven decision-making.
ACCOUNTABILITIES: Product Financial Strategy & Decision Support
- Partner with Product team to evaluate product investments, business cases, and long-term roadmap decisions
- Develop and maintain financial models to assess product profitability, ROI, and lifecycle economics
- Provide scenario analysis and sensitivity modeling to inform prioritization and trade-offs across the product portfolio
- Translate complex financial insights into clear recommendations for senior leadership
Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management
- Lead financial planning processes for product areas, including annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning
- Track and analyze product performance against financial and operational KPIs (e.g., revenue, cost to serve, adoption metrics)
- Partner with business stakeholders to identify drivers of variances and recommend corrective actions
Product Economics & Pricing
- Develop and refine pricing strategies, cost models, and contribution margin analysis for product offerings
- Analyze customer segments, market dynamics, and competitive positioning to inform pricing and investment decisions
- Identify opportunities to improve profitability through cost optimization and pricing adjustments
Cross-Functional Business Partnership
- Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Operations, and Marketing to align financial insights with product strategy
- Support product launch planning through financial modeling, investment tracking, and performance measurement
- Enable data-driven decision making by improving access to financial and operational data
Process Improvement & Data Enablement
- Support the development of product-line P&Ls and portfolio-level resource allocations
- Develop dashboards and reporting to track product-level financial and operational performance
- Leverage financial systems and data infrastructure to improve accuracy, efficiency, and scalability
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Knowledge of:
- Strong knowledge of current trends in Financial Planning and Analysis including complex financial modeling of P&L components and underlying business drivers.
- Build reporting packages and facilitate financial processes e.g., actuals variance analysis, forecast, and budget.
- Proficient in Excel and Microsoft Office and ability to work within a financial system.
- GAAP knowledge preferred.
Ability to:
- Analyze business strategies and their impact on financials to influence business decisions.
- Connect area that you support to overall organizational business and financial strategies.
- Aptitude to solve ambiguous problems with a proactive mindset.
- Work in cross functional teams and have outstanding relationship building capabilities.
- Meet deadlines and prioritize work.
- Strong communication skills and ability to be understood by non-financial customers.
- Desire to constantly seek and offer constructive feedback.
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 5–8 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or product finance
- Strong financial modeling skills, including building integrated P&L forecasts and scenario analyses
- Experience partnering with business stakeholders and influencing decision-making
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: (Additional qualifications that may make a person even more effective in the role, but are not required for consideration)
- Experience supporting product, technology, or healthcare organizations
- Knowledge of product lifecycle management and product development processes
- Familiarity with pricing strategy, cost modeling, or unit economics
- Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI)
NMDP offers regular, full-time employees medical, dental, vision, life and disability, accident/critical illness/hospital, well-being, legal, identity theft and pet benefits. Retirement, paid time off/holidays, leave and incentive plans are also offered to eligible employees. Please reference this link for more information: NMDP Benefit Information
