Director, FP&A

🕒 6 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $168k - $285.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Serve as 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 LLM costs, software, and tooling • Build frameworks connecting R&D investment to product roadmap outcomes • Evaluate business cases for new initiatives, AI capabilities, build-versus-buy decisions, and vendor commitments • Present risks and opportunities to leadership • Define and track R&D efficiency metrics • Identify and execute large-scale savings and reallocation opportunities • Partner with People and R&D leaders on hiring plans, location strategy, and organizational design • Lead the AI transformation of R&D finance • Redesign FP&A processes, policies, planning, and reporting systems • Collaborate with Accounting on capitalized software, accruals, and allocations, and with Procurement on process improvements • Hire and coach R&D finance team members, set goals and priorities, and provide expert feedback • Collaborate asynchronously across time zones

🎯 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, including engineering headcount, cloud hosting, AI and LLM usage, software licenses, and capitalized software development • Experience leading process redesign and change in a finance team • Hands-on use of AI tools to improve how work gets done • Expertise in influencing senior technical stakeholders and translating complex analysis into clear recommendations for executives • Advanced financial modeling skills following industry best practices • Expertise in Google Sheets • Hands-on experience with financial and data visualization tools • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field • Comfort working remotely and asynchronously • Ability to use GitLab • Preferred: enterprise SaaS finance; direct CTO partnership; NetSuite, Sisense, Adaptive Planning, or SQL; MBA, CFA, or CPA qualification

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental Leave