Salary
💰 $108,000 - $157,000 per year
About the role
- Own finance partnership with executive leadership across the Hardware and Software Engineering, Science, Product and Design functions, leading forecasting and budget planning, as well as evolving budget vs. actuals reporting to deliver actionable insights to senior leadership.
- Partner with the GTM FP&A team to develop and implement a standardized investment evaluation framework across company-wide projects, ensuring expenses are aligned to strategic initiatives and providing ongoing reporting that drives accountability and improves executive visibility into how resources are being deployed.
- Consolidate financial inputs from the Product teams as well as cross-functional partners, integrating headcount, OpEx, and CapEx forecasts into comprehensive models and reports to ensure alignment with company-wide objectives and strategic goals.
- Lead headcount forecasting for the R&D Product organization, ensuring alignment of hiring to approved plans and proactively advising leaders on trade-offs, risks, and opportunities.
- Partner with the Product leadership team to create multi-year plans for the organization’s hiring and investment needs in order to deliver the product roadmap
- Oversee month-end close and reporting processes, partnering closely with accounting on ensuring accuracy of financials and providing insights/commentary on company results relative to plan/forecast.
- Produce high-impact monthly and quarterly deliverables including Monthly Flash, Board materials, and Quarterly Business Reviews, crafting narratives that influence executives and stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to streamline and automate financial reporting processes, enhancing efficiency and accuracy across monthly and quarterly deliverables.
- Establish best practices as it pertains to reporting and the utilization of data from a number of sources.
- Prepare other ad hoc analysis and modeling as needed.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant Finance experience, experience partnering with Product facing teams is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to own and lead financial planning cycles (annual planning, forecasting and reporting) and influence executive decision-making through clear insights and recommendations.
- Experience influencing executive level decision-makers and presenting to people at all levels of the organization with varying levels of financial literacy.
- Strong proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, working with planning tools (e.g. Anaplan) preferred.
- Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and precision of financial data and resolving discrepancies effectively.
- A self-starter attitude, with a demonstrated ability to operate well with ambiguity and build things from scratch.
- Ability to learn and adapt quickly to new systems and tools.
- High integrity, intellectual curiosity, self awareness, and a self starter attitude.