[Hiring] Financial Analyst @Cohere

Role Description

Cohere seeks a strategic and detail-oriented Financial Analyst to join the budget planning, forecasting, and spend management team that covers multiple high-impact areas. This role will serve as a key finance partner to business units, providing actionable insights to drive smarter decisions and optimal financial controls. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, can juggle complex budget categories, and is comfortable challenging assumptions to ensure fiscal discipline.

You will own the preparation and management of the G&A budget and forecast across Finance, Legal, People, and Corporate Affairs, monitoring headcount, vendor, and operating expenses against plan. Working closely with department leaders, you will identify variances, provide insights into key cost drivers, and support disciplined resource allocation as the company scales. Beyond supporting the G&A function, you will also play a key role in driving organization-wide workforce planning.

As our Financial Analyst, you will manage:

• Financial planning: Support roll-up of annual planning company-wide, corporate calendaring, and consolidated P&L.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Build and maintain department-level budgets and company-wide forecasts, working closely with business leaders to align financial plans with operational goals.
• Financial Modeling: Develop dynamic financial models to evaluate business scenarios, investment opportunities, and operational changes.
• Reporting & Variance Analysis: Prepare monthly reporting packages, analyze variances between actuals, forecasts, and budgets, and communicate clear explanations to department leaders.
• Business Partnering: Serve as the finance point of contact for G&A budget owners, challenging assumptions and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and cost discipline.
• Data & Systems Management: Leverage financial systems (e.g., NetSuite, Google Sheets/Excel, Pigment) to ensure data accuracy, streamline processes, and improve reporting efficiency.
• Workforce Planning: Support organization-wide workforce planning by developing and maintaining the workforce model, and establishing and refining key headcount and compensation assumptions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Accounting, or related quantitative field. An MBA, CFA, or CPA is a plus.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A with an emphasis on budget management and running month end operations.
• Expert level Excel/Google Sheets financial modeling skills; familiarity with ERP systems.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills, including effective communication skills at all levels within the Company and the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to deliver change, improve and streamline processes, drive efficiency, and influence stakeholders.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, constantly evolving environments. Startup/scaleup experience is a plus.

Benefits

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
• Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
• Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!).
• Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.

Company Description

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.

We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!