Finance Manager, FP&A

The role:

• We are seeking a proactive, highly strategic, and systems-oriented Finance Manager, FP&A to join our finance team. This crucial role serves as a strategic planning lead responsible for driving forecasting accuracy, maintaining the company's Operating Model, and optimizing resource allocation in a dynamic, high-growth technology environment.
• The ideal candidate will be an indispensable business partner to the executive team and functional leaders, owning the entire planning lifecycle from strategy to execution. This position requires someone adept at scaling finance processes, capable of complex financial engineering, and committed to translating operational data into clear, actionable financial strategy. We are looking for an individual who can elevate the FP&A function to support sustained hyper-growth.

What you'll do:

• Operating Model Management: Serve as the owner and manager of the Company Operating Model, which functions as the annual plan and primary driver-based financial blueprint for the organization.
• Forecasting Leadership: Lead the quarterly and rolling forecasting processes, ensuring strong alignment between future financial projections and key operational metrics.
• Planning & Accountability: Drive both top-down strategic resource allocation and bottoms-up operational planning (detailing resource requirements) to enforce budget rigor, accuracy, and executive accountability.
• Advanced Financial Modeling: Develop and maintain complex financial models to evaluate strategic initiatives, including ROI analysis for infrastructure, product development, and expansion projects.
• Profitability and Margin Analysis: Lead in-depth analysis of margins and profitability, establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) and identifying critical cost drivers across products and new business units.
• Strategic R&D Partnership: Serve as the financial liaison to Engineering and Product leadership, managing operating budgets, analyzing capital allocation trade-offs, and driving optimal spending efficiency for all Research & Development investments.
• Executive Reporting and Strategic Analysis: Be responsible for the development and presentation of all executive-level financial materials, delivering in-depth strategic analysis on company performance, key financial risks, and future fiscal planning.
• Process and System Automation: Lead initiatives to automate and integrate systems within the FP&A function, specifically focused on enhancing data quality, accelerating reporting cycles, and increasing planning efficiency (e.g., integrating planning software with ERP systems and Data Warehouses).
• Team Development and Mentorship: Cultivate a high-performing FP&A team by mentoring junior members and promoting a culture defined by intellectual rigor and curiosity.

Who you are:

• Strategic Ownership & Executive Presence: Proactively identify complexities, define comprehensive solutions, and assume full accountability for results. Confidently articulate sophisticated financial analysis to C-level leadership.
• Data-Driven Insight & Modeling: Utilize advanced data query skills and sophisticated modeling techniques to transform ambiguous information into clear, decisive, and actionable business insights.
• Process Architecture & Scalability: Possess a strong bias for action, focused on designing and implementing scalable systems and processes that enable high-velocity operations and sustained corporate growth.
• Collaboration & Trust: Deeply committed to fostering transparency and building strong, trusting relationships across all cross-functional teams (including Product, Engineering, and HR).
• Agile Resilience & Problem-Solving: Thrive in a dynamic, evolving market, demonstrating agility and resilience. Eager to dive into the necessary detail to solve complex and novel financial challenges.

What you'll need:

• Experience: A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), ideally within a high-growth technology or FinTech environment.
• Financial Modeling: Expert-level proficiency in advanced financial modeling, with a proven ability to build and maintain the core Operating Model that governs company-wide planning cycles.
• Technical Organization Support: Mandatory strong experience supporting a technical organization, specifically in modeling R&D, infrastructure, and engineering headcount/capital expenditures (capex).
• Technical Skills: Required advanced proficiency in Excel/Sheets and a strong command of SQL for effective data extraction and manipulation.
• System Experience: Experience with the implementation or optimization of FP&A systems (e.g., Runway, Mosaic, Anaplan, Adaptive) is highly desirable.
• Leadership & Communication: A proven track record of ownership, clear communication of complex financial strategy, and driving cross-functional accountability.

Perks:

• Remote-first global workforce + soon to open NY office
• Annual company offsite + team onsites
• Professional reimbursement program (facilitates industry conference attendance, certifications, and more)
• Medical, dental & vision coverage (US + some other countries)
• 401k retirement plan + company match (US only)
• Wellness stipend
• Home office set up / ergonomic equipment program.