Strategic Finance Analyst - 15 Month Contract

1Password is growing. We’ve surpassed $500M in ARR and we’re continuing to accelerate, earning a spot on the Forbes Cloud 100 for four years in a row and teaming up with iconic partners like Oracle Red Bull Racing. About 1Password At 1Password, we’re building the foundation for a safe, productive digital future. Our mission is to unleash employee productivity without compromising security by ensuring every identity is authentic, every application sign-in is secure, and every device is trusted. We innovated the market-leading enterprise password manager and pioneered Unified Access Management, a new cybersecurity category built for the way people and AI agents work today. As one of the most loved brands in cybersecurity, we take a human-centric approach in everything from product strategy to user experience. Over 180,000 businesses, from Fortune 100 leaders to the world’s most innovative AI companies, trust 1Password to help their teams securely adopt the SaaS and AI tools they need to do their best work. If you're excited about the opportunity to contribute to the digital safety of millions, to work alongside a team of curious, driven individuals, and to solve hard problems in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, then we want to hear from you. Come join us and help shape a safer, simpler digital future. As a Strategic Finance Analyst, you’ll help 1Password make informed decisions about how it invests in growth. You’ll partner with Marketing and Finance leaders to own marketing operating expenses (opex) and headcount forecasting, explain performance against plan, and improve recurring reporting and planning processes. This is a 15-month fixed-term contract with the opportunity to contribute to thoughtful, data-informed growth across the company. How we’re using AI today On the Finance team, we’re using AI to drive productivity, scale insight, and deliver better decision-making across 1Password. AI helps us move faster and sharpen our thinking, from summarizing context and pressure-testing assumptions to turning complex inputs into clear executive-level narratives. We bring AI into our work thoughtfully, improving repeatable workflows while staying accountable for the accuracy, confidentiality, and controls behind every output, creating space to focus on judgement, strategic partnership, and meaningful business outcomes. This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US. What we're looking for: • 4+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), strategic finance or business analytics, with a preference for SaaS or subscription technology companies • Experience owning operating expense and headcount forecasts against budget, including program spend and vendor costs, with a preference for marketing • Experience running a monthly close, forecast and variance cycle, including reconciling actuals and writing variance commentary for an executive audience • A track record of using AI tools and automation to improve a finance process, such as automating a recurring report, drafting variance commentary or standardizing a forecast template • Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including maintaining and rolling forward financial models built by others • Clear written and verbal communication, including presenting analysis to Marketing budget owners • Ability to learn new metrics, models and processes quickly and work independently against set priorities Bonus points for: • Experience building AI agents or automated workflows for a finance team • Experience with NetSuite, Anaplan, ChartHop, Salesforce or Hex • Experience with marketing spend analytics such as cost per pipeline, CAC and payback What you can expect: • Own the marketing opex forecast, budget tracking and quarterly reforecast, including program and campaign spend, and explain each variance to budget with its driver so Finance and Marketing leaders can act on it • Own the marketing headcount forecast, tracking hires, open roles and departures against plan to show their impact on marketing opex • Reconcile monthly marketing opex and headcount actuals to the general ledger and the headcount system, and turn the results into the marketing sections of the monthly and quarterly business reviews (MBR and QBR), including tables, charts and a draft narrative for an executive audience • Streamline recurring forecasting and reporting work, such as actuals feeds, budget owner updates and variance commentary, so each monthly cycle takes less manual effort • Prepare materials for reviews with Marketing budget owners, attend alongside the Director, record decisions and complete the follow-up analysis • Support marketing spend efficiency reporting, including cost per pipeline, customer acquisition cost (CAC) and payback, to inform marketing investment decisions • Contribute to process improvement projects across GTM finance with the Strategic Finance team, bringing the same approach to shared forecasting and reporting workflows • Document each recurring process so the work hands off cleanly at the end of the term USA-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $107,000 USD and $150,000 USD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs. Canada-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $84,000 CAD and $118,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs. At 1Password, we approach each individual's compensation with a promise of fair market value and internal equity commensurate with experience and specific skill set. This posting is for an existing vacancy. Our culture At 1Password, we priorit