Senior Analyst FP&A

Senior Analyst FP&A

Santa Ana

As Senior Analyst, FP&A, reporting to the Head of FP&A, you will support FP&A activities for both the General Counsel, Compliance, Risk (GCCR) and People organizations, with a focus on operating expenses, headcount planning, and month end consolidation, while also supporting the financial analysis, tracking, and reporting of business cases and strategic initiatives within these functions. This is a hands-on analytical role, ideal for someone looking to deepen expertise in cost FP&A and enterprise headcount management in a global environment.

What You'll Do

Cost & Headcount Analysis

• Support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for GCCR and People function costs
• Track and reconcile headcount, compensation, and benefits against plan
• Analyze cost trends, drivers, and risks, escalating issues as needed

Planning & Forecasting Support

• Assist with annual operating plan, quarterly forecasts, and workforce planning
• Maintain detailed Opex and headcount models
• Partner with HR and Accounting to ensure consistency between financial and workforce data

Strategic Initiatives & Business Case Support

• Support the development and analysis of business cases for GCCR and People initiatives such as operating model changes, system implementations, and organizational investments
• Assist in tracking performance against approved business cases, including costs, timing, and key assumptions
• Partner with cross functional stakeholders (HR, GCCR, CFO, IT, etc) to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure alignment
• Help ensure business cases are reflected consistently in budgets, forecasts, and reporting

Reporting & Consolidation

• Prepare monthly cost reporting packages with clear variance explanations
• Support consolidation of cost, headcount and initiative spend across supported functions
• Ensure accuracy, timeliness, and data integrity across reporting outputs

Process & Tool Improvement

• Continuously improve FP&A templates, models, and reporting processes
• Support development of dashboards and standardized reporting
• Document assumptions and methodologies to support repeatable, scalable processes

What Success Looks Like

• Cost, headcount and initiative tracking are accurate, timely, well understood and consistently reported
• Variances are clearly explained and proactively surfaced
• Stakeholders trust FP&A outputs and insights
• You build strong foundational FP&A skills with increasing ownership

What We're Looking For

• 3–6 years of experience in FP&A, accounting, or financial analysis roles
• Strong Excel and financial modeling skills
• Experience with headcount and compensation modeling preferred
• Ability to work cross functionally and manage multiple inputs
• Detail oriented with strong analytical judgment

Why Convera

• Opportunity to build deep FP&A expertise in a global fintech
• Exposure to enterprise cost and workforce planning
• Clear development path within FP&A
• Competitive compensation and benefits

About Convera

Convera is the largest non-bank B2B cross-border payments company in the world. Formerly Western Union Business Solutions, we leverage decades of industry expertise and technology-led payment solutions to deliver smarter money movements to our customers – helping them capture more value with every transaction. Convera serves more than 30,000 customers ranging from small business owners to enterprise treasurers, educational institutions, financial institutions, law firms, and NGOs.

Our teams care deeply about the value we bring to our customers, making Convera a rewarding workplace. This is an exciting time for our organization as we build our team with growth-minded, results-oriented people who are looking to move fast in an innovative environment.

As a truly global company with employees in over 20 countries, we are passionate about diversity; we seek and celebrate people from different backgrounds, lifestyles, and unique points of view. We want to work with the best people and ensure we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging.

We offer an abundance of competitive perks and benefits including:

• Market competitive salary.
• Great career growth and development opportunities in a global organization.
• Hybrid schedule with 2 in the office per week.
• Generous insurance (health, disability, life).
• Paid holidays, time-off, and leave policies for life events (maternity, paternity, adoption).
• Paid volunteering opportunities (5 days per year).

Morning shift starting as early as 7:00 a.m.; flexibility required.

Apply now if you're ready to unleash your potential