Finance Manager

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

FP&A Manager driving financial execution and business partnerships at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Specializing in AI-driven enhancements in finance processes and financial modeling within a collaborative environment.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeRedwood City • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $138,000 - $189,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the Finance point of contact for a portfolio of Central functions, ensuring operational leaders have a reliable, responsive Finance resource for their recurring reporting and Finance needs.
Own day-to-day financial management across Opex and People spend, ensuring accurate tracking, forecasting, and reporting across supported functions.
Manage budget vs. actuals analysis across operating expenses, grants and headcount-related spend; proactively identify risks, variances, and emerging trends and surface insights to Finance leadership and business partners.
Lead annual planning and reforecast cycles, building detailed financial models and partnering with stakeholders to translate operational inputs into structured financial forecasts.
Drive monthly close activities, including accrual preparation across Opex and reconciliation across systems to ensure data integrity.
Lead the identification and implementation of AI-driven and automation improvements across recurring finance processes - including accrual workflows, forecast updates, headcount tracking, and reporting packages - with a focus on reducing manual effort, improving accuracy, and building scalable solutions.
Build and enhance scalable reporting infrastructure, leveraging Adaptive, Workday, Salesforce, Sheets, and other tools to reduce manual work and improve data transparency.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7–10 years of Finance experience, including progressive experience in an FP&A role with demonstrated business partnering responsibilities, ideally within a complex, fast-paced, or growth-oriented organization.
Proven ability to manage business partner relationships across multiple teams, serving as an organized, reliable Finance resource while also supporting deeper FP&A execution for a primary portfolio.
Exceptional analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills; thinks critically and connects financial outcomes to operational drivers.
Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills across business partners and cross-functional stakeholders; able to communicate financial insights clearly and constructively, including to non-finance audiences.
Strong results orientation and bias to action; self-starter who works independently, demonstrates initiative, flexibility, and maturity under pressure, and effectively manages competing priorities.
Experience working with Adaptive Planning (or comparable forecasting software), Workday Financials (or similar ERP systems), and Salesforce, with strong proficiency in Google Suite (Sheets, Docs, Slides).
Demonstrated hands-on experience applying AI tools and automation to finance workflows - such as using AI assistants to accelerate analysis, drafting, and reporting; building automated data pipelines or recurring reporting; or deploying AI-enabled solutions to improve forecast reliability and process efficiency. Comfort experimenting with and adopting new AI tools as they evolve is essential.
A forward-looking mindset toward AI in finance: understands how AI is reshaping FP&A and is eager to be at the forefront of that shift - not just using available tools, but actively identifying where AI can drive the most value across the finance function.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice.
Funding for select family-forming benefits.
Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial managementbudget analysisforecastingfinancial modelingdata reconciliationAI-driven automationproblem-solvinganalytical skillsreportingOpex management

Soft Skills

relationship-buildingcollaborationcommunicationresults orientationinitiativeflexibilitymaturity under pressurecritical thinkingorganizational skillsself-starter