Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Role Overview

The Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager will serve as the finance partner to the Engineering and Product organizations, owning the financial view of how the company builds, hosts, and delivers its SaaS products. This critical role will ensure tight timelines, high-quality reporting, and decisions grounded in unit economics.

What You Will Do

The Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager will own R&D and Engineering budgeting and forecasting, build business cases and ROI for build-vs.-buy, vendor rationalization, and migration decisions, and support software capitalization analysis with Accounting.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of corporate FP&A experience, a strong understanding of SaaS economics, and experience modeling cloud, hosting, or infrastructure costs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field or experience
• 7+ years of corporate FP&A experience, ideally supporting Engineering, Technical Operations, or Product organizations in a SaaS or technology company
• Strong understanding of SaaS economics, including gross margin, cost of sales classification, unit economics, and cost to serve
• Experience modeling cloud, hosting, or infrastructure costs and familiarity with cloud pricing constructs (commits, reserved capacity, usage-based pricing)
• Experience building cost allocation models and product-level P&Ls, with a solid accounting foundation—including GAAP cost classification (cost of sales vs. opex), capex vs. opex, depreciation, lease accounting, and software capitalization—and the ability to partner closely with Accounting
• Advanced Excel proficiency (complex models, pivots, Power Query/Power Pivot, dashboards) and strong experience with Oracle and SmartView
• Hands-on experience administering Oracle PBCS as a system owner, including troubleshooting with IT
• Strong data analysis orientation—ability to extract, transform, and analyze large datasets (e.g., cloud billing and usage data) using SQL, Python/R, and tools such as Power BI/Tableau
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain financial concepts to technical audiences and technical concepts to finance and executive audiences
• Ability to collaborate in a fast-paced environment and manage tight deadlines; prior experience managing or mentoring team members is a plus

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