Lead Financial Analyst – Strategic Business Partner, Product & Technology

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +30 more states.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary finance partner for Product & Technology leadership and an additional department.

• Provide analysis to assist in prioritization and investment trade-offs.

• Participate in planning and roadmap discussions, representing the finance perspective.

• Convert SRE, AI/ML, and Data Engineering roadmaps into budgets, forecasts, and plans for headcount and contractors.

• Oversee annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasting, and multi-year financial planning.

• Drive vendor spend optimization across cloud services, hosting, software, and contractor support.

• Manage CAPEX planning for data centers and infrastructure, including capacity, hardware refresh cycles, and depreciation impacts.

• Collaborate with Accounting on software capitalization and costs associated with capitalizable labor and contractors.

• Model total ownership costs and evaluate build-versus-buy decisions.

• Supervise month-end closing processes, forecasting, and variance analysis.

• Present resource plans and financial performance metrics to senior leaders, including the CPTO and CFO.

• Develop and maintain dashboards that link spending to technical and product results.

• Coach and mentor FP&A analysts to enhance their skills.

• Establish standards and share best practices for financial business partnerships.

• Lead initiatives to enhance financial modeling, departmental reporting, and business insights.

• Assist in managing the financial planning and reporting system, focusing on documentation, process enhancements, and module implementations.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree and over 7 years of experience in FP&A, financial business partnering, or corporate finance.

• Background in supporting a technology, engineering, or product organization.

• Proven experience collaborating with technical and product teams.

• Experience working strategically on business and organization-wide objectives.

• Strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present to executives.

• History of establishing credibility with senior stakeholders and influencing without direct authority.

• Experience supporting multiple divisions or business units at the same time.

• Background in mentoring or coaching other analysts.

• Experience in leading process improvement initiatives.

• MBA or CPA is preferred.

• Tech-specific planning experience is preferred, including data center or infrastructure CAPEX, software capitalization (ASC 350-40), headcount planning, and contractor or vendor expenditures.

• Familiarity with Workday Adaptive Planning is preferred.

• Experience in finance business intelligence and reporting is preferred.

• Experience in a nonprofit, open-source, or mission-driven organization is preferred.

• Understanding of free culture, free software, or online rights movements is preferred.

• Non-US candidates must possess valid work authorization in their respective locations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first organization.

• Annual department offsite, strategy alignment trips, and participation in global community conferences (2–3 trips per year).

• Commitment to equal opportunity and an inclusive workplace.

• Compensation tailored to the country of hire for applicants outside the US.

• Comprehensive U.S. benefits and perks (details linked in the posting).