Director, FP&A

Role Overview

As Director, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), you’ll lead finance for GitLab’s Research & Development (R&D) organization, our largest operating expense area. You’ll be the strategic finance partner to our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and their leadership team, owning R&D planning, forecasting, and investment decisions.

What You Will Do

Serve as the finance advisor to the CTO and R&D leadership. Hold partners accountable for execution against plan and connect R&D priorities to company financial targets. Lead annual planning, and rolling forecasts for R&D. Own the operating plan across headcount, compensation, contractors, hosting and cloud, AI and large language model (LLM) costs, software, and tooling.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Extensive finance experience, including serving as the lead finance partner to an R&D, Engineering, or Product organization plus experience leading a team of analysts. A strong understanding of financial statements, accounting principles, and R&D cost drivers, including engineering headcount, cloud hosting, AI and LLM usage, software licenses, and capitalized software development.

Requirements

• Extensive finance experience, including serving as the lead finance partner to an R&D, Engineering, or Product organization
• Experience leading a team of analysts
• Strong understanding of financial statements, accounting principles, and R&D cost drivers
• Advanced financial modeling skills that follow industry best practices
• Expertise in influencing senior technical stakeholders and translating complex analysis into clear recommendations for executives

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

Tagged as: Financial Modeling, Forecasting