The Senior Financial Analyst collaborates with sales leadership to provide financial analysis, reporting, and insights to drive business strategies and decisions.
About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Sales Finance team as a trusted business partner to Sales leadership. This role will provide financial analysis, reporting, and strategic insights to drive growth, efficiency, and sound decision-making. The analyst will lead core finance processes—including budgeting, forecasting, and performance reviews—while developing reporting tools, dashboards, and executive presentations. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
What You Will Do
- Serve as a trusted Sales Finance partner, balancing financial discipline with business priorities, translating finance concepts into clear business insights to drive cross-team alignment.
- Partner with Sales leaders to develop business plans, strategies, and actionable insights.
- Drive reporting, process, and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g., budget, forecast, monthly reviews, long-range plans).
- Build dynamic reporting structures, dashboards, and presentations to inform executive decision-making.
- Design rigorous analysis to measure the efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses.
- Support global sales finance consolidation across billings, expenses, headcount, and other key KPIs.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to improve data quality, analytics capabilities, and self-service reporting.
- Support ad-hoc analysis and special projects for the Commercial Finance team.
- Act as subject matter expert for Adaptive Planning/Office Connect.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a business-related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- 6+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis or related field
- Strong financial/analytical skills with proven capabilities in developing complex financial models, and a track record of driving process improvements
- Experience in business partnering and presenting to an executive audience.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills including PowerPoint, Word, and modeling in Excel
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to function well in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with competing priorities
- Experience with SQL is a plus
- Experience in data visualization and dashboarding is a plus
In the United States, the base salary for this role ranges from $86,000 to $144,000 In addition to base salary, we offer additional compensation including bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits package. A candidate’s specific pay within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including job-related skills, training, location, experience, relevant education, certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
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At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.
What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
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Top Skills
Adaptive Planning
MS Office
Office Connect
SQL
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