Strategic Finance Senior Analyst

About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, and Anthropic.

We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

About the team and role

The Financial Planning & Strategy (FP&S) team at Checkr sits at the intersection of finance, strategy, and execution. We don't just report on the business, we shape it.  We drive strategic decision-making through deep cross-functional partnership, financial and strategic analyses, and domain expertise. We proactively identify opportunities to fuel growth toward Checkr’s goals and deliver the highest impact outcomes.

We are looking for several Strategic Finance Senior Analysts to join our growing team. We focus on delivering actionable insights into business performance and optimizing resource allocation to accelerate growth. This person will play a pivotal role in how we scale our growth businesses. What you’ll do Model Ownership:
Own revenue and opex models that set goals and measure business performance.

Build the next-generation Strat Fin team:
Develop AI-powered workflows, automated analyses, and intelligence systems that redefine what a strategic finance team can do.

Strategy:
Assess and define our existing and potential future strategic priorities. Quantitatively validate and drive influence toward the highest revenue impact and ROI initiatives.

Insights:
Proactively deliver data-driven insights and recommendations that inform go-to-market tactics, product features and experiments, budget allocations, Board of Directors / investor materials, and other cross-functional roadmaps.

Business Partnership:
Collaborate with cross-functional partners across Sales, Product, Finance, Corporate Development, and more. Strategic Planning:
Contribute to our long-range, annual, and quarterly planning processes, including the strategic plan that positions us to accomplish our goals.

What you bring4+ years of experience. Foundational experience in investment banking, private equity, or strategic finance/business operations is preferred.

Experience with consumption-based business models is a meaningful plus.

Proven track record of driving business outcomes through data analytics and financial insights.

You've built something with AI- a model, a workflow, an automated analysis. You're eager to do more of it. You see AI as a core part of how great finance teams will operate, not a novelty.

Expert-level modeling ability, translating complex business drivers into clear frameworks.

Experience with Adaptive, Claude, Lovable, Salesforce, BI tools (ie. Omni), SQL.You identify problems before they're handed to you, and you thrive when the answer isn't obvious. An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes

Pay Transparency Disclosure We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion.

For more information on our compensation philosophy, seeour website.

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA)$128,000—$173,000 USDWhat We Offer A…