Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst at Realtor.com®

Are you a financial story-telling expert? Are you ready to overhaul expense management for the biggest discretionary budgets that has a direct impact on the company's web and mobile Consumers? If you want to pursue your professional goals as you help grow an innovative real estate tech company, this work is for you. Join us as our newest Senior Financial Analyst and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.

Realtor.com® is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Finance team at our new headquarters in Austin, TX. This role will be responsible for forecasting operating expenses and analyzing trends to support business decision-making across the Consumer organization. We are looking for a candidate with strong FP&A experience, ideally with a background supporting consumer-facing organizations where marketing and technology investments are directly linked to audience growth/retention (users) and driving specific user behaviors, such as submitting inquiries, engagements, or conversions.

This is a critical, foundational role focused on building and scaling the financial infrastructure to support marketing investment across the Consumer organization. The primary objective is to establish a center of excellence for managing operating expenses end-to-end, with a specific emphasis on driving marketing efficiency and optimizing return on ad spend (ROAS). The ideal candidate will bring strong financial acumen paired with a builder’s mindset — someone who can rethink and evolve current frameworks rather than inherit them. Prior experience in marketing spend analysis (e.g., ROAS, CAC) is highly preferred, as a significant portion of the budget is variable and requires active intra-month monitoring, rebalancing, and optimization to ensure investments are closely aligned to audience growth and engagement outcomes.

Top Reasons to Apply:

• You love redefining processes or building them from scratch
• You embrace the latest technology (ai) and find ways to have it automate mundane (but important) tasks
• You can build concise, coherent financial stories to help explain results to business partners

What you'll do:

• Own operating expense forecasting and budget management for Consumer Marketing, ensuring alignment to audience growth, engagement, and acquisition objectives.
• Develop and maintain marketing spend models that optimize investment allocation, maximize ROAS (Return on Ad Spend), and support dynamic forecasting as performance trends evolve intra-month.
• Partner closely with Consumer Marketing leadership to translate campaign plans into actionable financial forecasts, providing strategic insights on spend pacing, effectiveness, and investment trade-offs.
• Support monthly and quarterly business reviews by preparing detailed variance analysis, highlighting drivers of over/underperformance relative to plan and forecast.
• Establish and evolve financial processes and operating rhythms (e.g., monthly spend tracking, investment rebalancing frameworks) to create a center of excellence for marketing investment management.
• Partner cross-functionally with Marketing Operations, Analytics, and Business Intelligence teams to align on source-of-truth performance data and attribution methodologies.
• Drive scenario planning and ROI modeling for incremental investment asks, helping prioritize spend based on expected user growth and behavioral outcomes (e.g., inquiries, registrations, transactions).
• Ensure compliance with financial controls and provide support during audits or financial reporting cycles as needed.

What you bring:

• Minimum BS Degree in Finance or Accounting
• 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience 
• Experience must include finance and financial analysis roles (FP&A roles preferred)
• Advanced financial modeling, analysis, and forecasting skills
• Experience working with large datasets
• Strong financial acumen
• Detail-oriented

Required Skills:

• Detailed knowledge of accounting, finance, and corporate company operations
• Strong Excel / G-sheets modeling and analysis skills
• Excellent written and verbal business communication skills
• Experience in complex, matrixed organizations

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

How We Reward You:

Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location