About the job
Role Overview
A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to lead its G&A FP&A function. This role partners closely with senior leadership across Finance, Legal, People/HR, and IT, owning financial planning, forecasting, and reporting across the G&A cost base while building and developing a high-performing team of analysts.
The successful candidate will be a driven self-starter who communicates clearly, works effectively with senior leadership, manages multiple priorities, adapts quickly to change, embraces ambiguity, and drives improvements across financial analysis, planning tools, systems, and controls.
Responsibilities
- People Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of analysts, setting the bar for a world-class G&A FP&A function and building a strong bench for future growth.
- Business Partnering: Serve as the primary FP&A partner to G&A leaders across Finance, Legal, People/HR, and IT, developing a deep understanding of business drivers and ensuring plans align with company objectives.
- Forecast Coordination & Consolidation: Own the G&A forecasting and budgeting process end-to-end, including headcount planning and optimization, opex forecasting, reconciliation of actuals to plan, and consolidation of team-level outputs into a coherent G&A view.
- Management Reporting: Develop and deliver reporting that summarizes G&A performance and supports decision-making for senior management, including the CFO, CPO, CIO, CLO, and other executive stakeholders.
- Planning Systems & Financial Models: Partner with business teams to modernize and automate G&A forecasting and planning tools, including continued build-out of forecasting in the Pigment financial planning system.
- AI Automation: Champion and standardize the use of AI across the G&A FP&A team to improve the speed and quality of analysis.
- Month-End Close: Oversee month-end close activities for G&A, including headcount reconciliations, accrual reviews, and budget-versus-actuals analysis and reporting.
- Workforce Planning: Partner with Recruiting and HR to align workforce planning and reporting for G&A executives and their leadership teams.
What You’ll Need
- Bachelor’s degree; finance, business, or economics preferred. MBA is a plus.
- 6+ years of experience within FP&A or other finance functions, including prior experience managing or mentoring a team.
- Expertise in financial modeling, Google Suite, Microsoft Excel, and Pigment or comparable financial planning tools.
- Confidence building strong relationships with business partners at all levels; experience partnering with G&A functions is a plus, along with the ability to manage challenging stakeholders with varying incentives and needs.
- Excellent organization skills and a natural ability to bring structure to complexity.
- A highly detail-oriented approach with a track record of producing accurate work under tight deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication to different levels of seniority and financial fluency.
- Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions, and develop actionable recommendations.
- Strong project and team management skills, with the ability and desire to train and manage analysts and develop the operating cadence of a function.
Compensation & Benefits
- Compensation at offer varies based on factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and work location.
- Eligible U.S.-based employees may receive equity and participate in the employee stock purchase program.
- Benefits may include flexible paid time off, 20 weeks of fully paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, a 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and other health benefits.
