Financial Analyst, FP&A-Opex

At Media Kind, we’re reshaping the future of streaming video, and we’re moving at incredible speed. Our cloud-native, agile technology enables customers to rapidly build, deploy, and scale premium streaming experiences, removing traditional barriers to innovation and growth.

We’re on a mission to transform how the world watches video: making every moment extraordinary, personalized and valuable for content owners and their consumers.

Here, you’ll be part of a dynamic team that’s redefining how media experiences come to life. Our award-winning products simplify complex operations, enabling customers (from iconic sports brands to innovative broadcasters and content owners) to focus purely on storytelling and growth. By replacing legacy complexity with cloud-connected solutions, we ensure speed, simplicity, and commercial transparency.

Beyond technology, our true strength lies in our people. We are committed to fostering a passionate community of creators, developers, and artists who love what they do. Together, we’ll redefine the art of streaming.

If you're ready to build what’s next in streaming—and do it with a team that moves fast, thinks boldly, and builds with intent—come make it happen with us.

Media Kind is a PE-backed video technology company formed through the merger of two businesses and in active post-merger integration. Media Kind is seeking a Financial Analyst to join its FP&A team with a primary focus on operating expenses, headcount planning, forecasting, and functional finance partnership.

The Financial Analyst will serve as a day-to-day Finance partner to assigned functional leaders and budget owners, providing visibility into financial performance and helping teams effectively manage their budgets and resources. The role will be responsible for budget versus actual analysis, operating expense and headcount forecasting, spend tracking, and supporting the broader planning and reporting processes.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys working with data, understanding the drivers behind financial results, and partnering across the business to turn financial information into actionable insights.

Opex Planning & Forecasting

• Support the annual operating plan, quarterly reforecasts, and long-range planning for assigned functions.
• Develop and maintain operating expense and headcount forecasts in partnership with functional leaders.
• Consolidate financial inputs, validate assumptions, and identify risks and opportunities against plan.
• Support scenario modeling and ad-hoc analysis to inform resource and spending decisions.

• Serve as the primary day-to-day Finance partner for assigned functional areas.
• Prepare monthly budget versus actual analysis, identifying key drivers, trends, and variances.
• Partner with budget owners to understand results and develop clear financial commentary.
• Track spending against approved budgets and provide visibility into current and projected performance.
• Support Finance approval processes for headcount requisitions, purchase requests, and other spend commitments.

• Maintain detailed headcount plans, including new hires, vacancies, backfills, and organizational changes.
• Partner with the People Team to reconcile headcount assumptions and ensure alignment between workforce and financial plans.
• Monitor vendor and discretionary spend against approved budgets.
• Support integration and one-time cost tracking as applicable.

• Prepare recurring financial reports and dashboards for assigned functions.
• Support monthly management reporting and consolidation activities.
• Partner with Accounting during month-end close to ensure accurate expense reporting,…