Senior Associate, Strategic Finance

Mozilla
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Candidates with strategic finance experience and a commitment to open-source values will find this high-impact role in a remote US work arrangement.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years in strategic finance or investment banking and a passion for mission-driven work
    — “5+ years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, corporate finance, or investment banking.”
  • Professionals who can translate financial analysis into business strategy and communicate it clearly to non-financial leaders
    — “Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to turn complex financial concepts into clear narratives for non-financial stakeholders.”
  • Individuals who have experience with AI tools and are comfortable introducing them to cross-functional teams
    — “Experience using AI tools to work faster and better, and a willingness to introduce them to your team and cross-functional partners.”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a strong sense of operational excellence and structured planning under ambiguity
    — “A high standard for operational excellence and a clear sense of how to turn ambiguous business questions into actionable plans.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in translating product and revenue metrics into financial outcomes
    — “connecting product and revenue metrics to financial outcomes”
  • Emphasize your ability to maintain accurate, timely, and consistent financial reporting
    — “keeping reporting accurate, timely, and consistent”
  • Demonstrate your proficiency in financial modeling with examples of unit economics and scenario planning
    — “Build and maintain financial models that translate operating plans into outcomes, risks, and opportunities, including unit economics, pricing analysis, and scenario planning.”
  • Showcase experience in cross-functional resource allocation and scaling business processes
    — “Lead cross-functional initiatives on resource allocation, operational efficiency, and scaling business processes.”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • accurate financial modeling
  • effective resource allocation
  • operational efficiency improvements
Typical background
strategic finance experiencecorporate finance or investment banking experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Strategic FinanceFinancial ModelingROI EvaluationLong-range PlanningOperational EfficiencyResource AllocationFinancial AnalysisForecastingBudgetingMeasuring Operational Performance

Preferred

AI Tools ExperienceSoftware, Internet, Consumption-based, Subscription, Advertising, Or Ai-driven Business Models Experience

Stack & domain

Strategic FinanceFP&ACorporate FinanceInvestment BankingFinancial ModelingFinancial AnalysisROI EvaluationProduct And Corporate StrategyGTM Engine OptimizationOperational Decision-makingResource AllocationOperational EfficiencyBusiness Process ScalingAI ToolsERPPlanning ToolsNetsuiteWorkdayPigmentAdaptiveCommunicationTeamworkLeadershipProblem-solvingForecastingBudgetingMeasuring Operational PerformanceTurning Complex Financial Concepts Into Clear NarrativesPartnering With Senior LeadersFinanceAI

About the role

Original posting from Mozilla via Greenhouse

Why Mozilla?

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people. 

The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms. 

About this team and role:

Strategic Finance is a high-visibility, high-impact role embedded in the company’s decision-making core. You will partner with our executive, product, and go-to-market (GTM) teams, owning the financial modeling and analysis that drives our product and corporate strategy, optimizes our GTM engine, and informs critical operational decisions.

What you’ll do: 

Partner with Product and GTM leaders to evaluate the financial ROI and viability of new products, business lines, and R&D investments.

Own the long-range plan, connecting product and revenue metrics to financial outcomes and keeping reporting accurate, timely, and consistent.

Build and maintain financial models that translate operating plans into outcomes, risks, and opportunities, including unit economics, pricing analysis, and scenario planning.

Lead cross-functional initiatives on resource allocation, operational efficiency, and scaling business processes.

What you’ll bring: 

5+ years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, corporate finance, or investment banking.

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Strong financial modeling skills, with a rigorous, quantitative approach to forecasting, budgeting, and measuring operational performance.

Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to turn complex financial concepts into clear narratives for non-financial stakeholders and to partner with senior leaders.

A high standard for operational excellence and a clear sense of how to turn ambiguous business questions into actionable plans.

Experience using AI tools to work faster and better, and a willingness to introduce them to your team and cross-functional partners.

Commitment to our values:

Welcoming differences

Being relationship-minded

Practicing responsible participation

Having grit

Nice to haves:

Experience with software, internet, consumption-based, subscription, advertising, or AI-driven business models.

Experience with ERP and planning tools such as NetSuite, Workday, Pigment, or Adaptive.

What you’ll get:

Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team

Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage

Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)

Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together

Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday

One-time home office stipend

Annual professional development budget

Quarterly well-being stipend

Considerable paid parental leave

Employee referral bonus program

Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)

About Mozilla 

Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.

Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission.  We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.

We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com to request accommodation.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws.  Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.

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Req ID: R3291

Hiring Ranges:

US Tier 1 Locations$102,000—$136,000 USDUS Tier 2 Locations$94,000—$125,000 USDUS Tier 3 Locations$87,000—$116,000 USD

Source: Mozilla careers (Greenhouse)

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