Fractional CFO
Grayson HR
Strategic Finance Manager – R&D
Vanta
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $172,000 - $202,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
SQL
About the role
- Partner with R&D teams, Accounting, and other G&A business leaders to enable key stakeholders on insights produced and provide recommendations to improve business outcomes
- Lead financial efforts and provide insights on various projects such as return on investment for R&D spend, KPI reporting and optimization, and external benchmarking
- Thrive in the end-to-end process of nimbly providing real-time insights that can translate into frameworks for long-term success
- Identify topics that merit further investigation and utilize data and frameworks to provide new perspectives
- Oversee R&D headcount management and movement tracking to forecast and manage departmental costs
- Serve as the Finance approver on R&D spend deployment. Identify major swings in spend, track against budget, and adjust forecasts in real time
- Prepare recommendations on incremental investment opportunities by weighing financial and strategic trade-offs
- Share responsibilities with existing finance leadership, expanding the team’s reach into strategic and analytical support across the business
Requirements
- 5+ years of related experience, ideally in corporate finance, financial planning, and analysis (FP&A), investment banking, or investment management
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs/Sheets/Slides
- Bonus for experience in SQL and NetSuite
- Strong capability to tackle projects, extract key insights, and translate them into actionable strategies that drive business impact
- Proven ability to work effectively and establish relationships with business partners
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying financial insights in a comprehensible and engaging manner
- Time and project management skills, the curiosity and drive to dig a level deeper
- Passion for systematizing processes, reducing bottlenecks, and creating scalable solutions
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, or equivalent. A Master’s degree or higher is advantageous.
Benefits
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
- 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
- Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours and location
- Open PTO policy
- 11 paid holidays in the US
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial planningfinancial analysisKPI reportingbudget forecastingdata analysisSQLExcelPowerPointGoogle DocsNetSuite
Soft skills
project managementcommunicationrelationship buildinganalytical thinkingstrategic thinkingcuriosityproblem-solvingtime managementleadershipadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in EconomicsBachelor's degree in FinanceMaster’s degree
