Staff FP&A AI Architect

Role Overview

Gusto’s Finance team is rebuilding planning, forecasting, and analysis with AI at the center. As Staff FP&A AI Architect, you’ll design and lead the technical and process architecture that turns FP&A from a manual, spreadsheet-driven cycle into an automated, insight-generating function.

What You Will Do

Set the strategy for AI-enabled planning, forecasting, and reporting, build forecasting systems, automate analysis, own the finance data foundation, embed controls and trust, evaluate and select tools, lead through influence, and measure impact.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Required: 10+ years in FP&A, corporate finance, finance systems, data science, or finance engineering, including 3+ years designing or leading AI/ML or advanced automation for finance. Nice to have: payroll, HR tech, fintech, or SaaS finance experience, experience building internal tools with Engineering, familiarity with MCP-style integrations and AI governance frameworks, CPA, CFA, or an advanced quantitative degree.

Requirements

• 10+ years in FP&A, corporate finance, finance systems, data science, or finance engineering
• 3+ years designing or leading AI/ML or advanced automation for finance
• Strong FP&A fundamentals: driver-based modeling, operating plans, rolling forecasts, SaaS or fintech metrics, variance analysis
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic systems (prompting, RAG, tool use, evals) and classical forecasting (time series, regression, ensembles)
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, a modern data stack (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, dbt), and BI tools
• Experience with enterprise planning platforms and ERP/GL systems
• Track record shipping production-grade solutions under SOX, data governance, and security review
• Exceptional communication: able to explain model behavior to a CFO and system design to an engineer

Benefits

• Competitive base pay
• Benefits
• Equity (RSUs)