Manager, FP&A – R&D

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as a vital financial partner to the CTO and the Engineering team regarding R&D investment, resource distribution, productivity, and decision-making processes.

• Collaborate with Engineering and Tech/FinOps to link product and customer usage, architecture, capacity, and consumption with unit economics and gross margins.

• Discover opportunities to enhance the efficiency and scalability of cloud infrastructure.

• Evaluate R&D resources, capacity, outcomes, and operating leverage.

• Create business cases and scenario analyses to prioritize investments and guide technical and operational decisions.

• Work alongside CCO leadership in Professional Services, Support, Training, and Customer Success.

• Assess Services margin, capacity, utilization, staffing composition, and cost to serve.

• Manage the budget, forecasts, and performance outlook for the supported organizations.

• Link operational drivers to gross margin, cost to serve, and R&D investment.

• Contribute to product P&Ls and insights into product-level profitability.

• Provide insights for company-wide forecasts, planning, and management reporting.

• Clarify performance drivers and suggest actionable recommendations.

• Continuously enhance models, data, and processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Around 5–8+ years of advancing experience in FP&A, strategic finance, finance analytics, FinOps, or a similar field.

• Experience in a $300M–$1B PE-backed or pre-IPO enterprise B2B SaaS organization, or a closely related environment.

• Proven, hands-on expertise in SaaS cloud infrastructure economics, including consumption drivers, unit economics, scalability, and gross margin effects.

• Experience collaborating with leaders in Engineering, Technology, Product, or Tech/FinOps.

• Strong grasp of SaaS gross margin and cost-to-serve economics.

• Outstanding financial modeling and analytical abilities, including proficiency in navigating complex or incomplete operational data.

• Capacity to independently transition from analysis to insight, leading to clear viewpoints and recommendations.

• Technical curiosity and sufficient expertise to engage credibly with Engineering, probing deeper beyond initial explanations.

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the capacity to work effectively with senior leaders in an individual contributor role.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexibility, trust, and a culture of continuous learning.

• Employee care and support initiatives.

• A workplace culture focused on diversity and inclusion.