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Senior Financial Analyst

Mozilla

Fully Remote
Remote
Worldwide
US hours

Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Mozilla is open worldwide, so South Africans can apply. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

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<strong>Why Mozilla?</strong>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we're shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we're doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren't beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.</span></p>
<strong>About this team and role:</strong>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla Finance is responsible for strategic resource allocation, overseeing day-to-day financial operations as we scale our mission impact with new and existing products, technology, and business models.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Core Services brings together the functions Mozilla runs on: Legal, People, Data Science, Trust &amp; Safety / Customer Experience, Strategy, IT, Cloud Engineering &amp; Ecosystems, and Security - teams supporting every part of the Company.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are seeking a detail-driven Senior Financial Analyst, Core Services to execute the recurring planning, reporting, and analysis that supports this portfolio. This role will be responsible for preparing the forecast, reconciling actuals through close, maintaining headcount and vendor tracking, and producing the reporting that reaches budget owners and the COO. This role reports to the Finance Manager, Core Services, who leads business partnership with the functional leaders, and works closely with teams across the organization.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To succeed, you will need to work accurately across a broad portfolio, translate variances into explanations a non-finance audience can act on, and balance competing cycle deadlines with outstanding attention to detail. This position requires a resourceful self-starter who takes recurring processes from start to finish and improves them along the way.</span></p>
<strong>What you'll do:</strong>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Prepare the Core Services forecast each cycle.</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Build and load cost center detail in Pigment, validate inputs, reconcile against the prior cycle, and document what moved along with the drivers behind it.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Assemble the monthly budget update.</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Prepare variance to plan, drivers, and open items for budget owners and the COO, ready for the Finance Manager to carry into leader conversations.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Partner with Accounting through monthly close.</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Tie out actuals, accruals, and forecast, and resolve coding and timing issues at the source rather than correcting for them downstream.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Maintain headcount tracking.</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Keep position-level tracking and the headcount-to-plan bridge current, coordinating with People and hiring managers on start dates and backfill assumptions.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Track vendor and cloud spend.</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Monitor POs, commitments, renewals, and run-rate changes across the group. Take in cloud cost information prepared by the Cloud Engineering team, carry it into Core Services and consolidated Company reporting, and review it for anomalies and initial questions.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Apply AI and automation to recurring work.</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort across the forecast, close, and reporting cycle, improving the speed and reliability of what the team produces. Experiment with tools and share what w

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About Mozilla

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