Senior Analyst, Analytics and Insights

An Overview Of This Role

As a Senior Analyst, Analytics and Insights on the Finance team within Analytics & Insights at GitLab, you'll transform complex, noisy data into clear, actionable insights that support decisions across the company. You'll navigate broad and sometimes imperfect datasets, utilizing tools like SQL and business intelligence platforms to extract crucial information, validate data quality, and build dashboards and analyses. These tools will provide Finance and other partner teams with a reliable view of business performance. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Analytics & Insights, you'll be part of a focused team, collaborating with stakeholders in Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Product to answer data-centric business questions, support key initiatives, and enable more data-driven planning and reporting across GitLab.

Some examples of projects for a Senior Analyst, Analytics and Insights:

• Supporting Finance with analytics and reporting for quarterly earnings call preparation.
• Building cross-functional dashboards that align business objectives with clear, measurable KPIs.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Product partners to frame data-centric business questions and deliver clear, actionable insights.
• Analyze complex, cross-functional datasets to identify trends, risks, and opportunities that inform strategic and operational decisions.
• Support Finance leadership with analytics and reporting for key initiatives, including quarterly earnings call preparation and other executive priorities.
• Build, maintain, and enhance dashboards and reports that make financial and business performance easy to understand for non-technical stakeholders.
• Ensure data quality, accuracy, and consistency by validating inputs, troubleshooting discrepancies, and partnering with Data team members on fixes.
• Present complex analyses in a simple, compelling way through written narratives, visualizations, and live discussions with stakeholders.
• Identify data gaps and define clear requirements for new data, logging, and measurement in partnership with the Data team and product management.
• Drive the adoption of data-driven decision-making within the Finance Analytics & Insights team by proactively sharing insights and best practices.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience working in a similar analytics and insights role within a B2B SaaS environment, ideally focused on finance or revenue-related topics.
• Proficiency in SQL and in using business intelligence and data visualization tools such as Tableau to build and maintain dashboards and reports.
• Background in developing, validating, and maintaining analytics datasets, dashboards, and recurring reporting with strong attention to data quality and accuracy.
• Ability to translate complex, ambiguous data into clear, structured insights that connect business objectives, key performance indicators, and actionable recommendations.
• Skill in identifying data gaps, defining clear requirements, and partnering with data and product teams to improve data capture and underlying data structures.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, including presenting findings to non-technical audiences and collaborating with partners in Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Product.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and asynchronous environment, managing multiple priorities and driving work independently.
• Openness to candidates with diverse backgrounds and transferable skills who can demonstrate strong analytical thinking, business acumen, and a data-informed approach to decision-making.

About The Team

You'll join our small, focused Finance analytics team of three within Analytics & Insights. We work asynchronously across regions, using shared dashboards and documentation to keep work transparent and collaborative. We focus on improving data quality, strengthening financial and operational reporting, and enabling consistent, data-informed decisions as GitLab grows.

How GitLab Will Support You

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Key skills/competency

• Data Analysis
• Business Intelligence
• SQL
• Tableau
• Data Visualization
• Financial Reporting
• KPI Development
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Quality
• SaaS Analytics