Lead Financial Analyst – Strategic Business Partner, Product & Technology

🕒 October 15

🌵 Arizona, California, +29 more states – Remote

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💵 $110k - $181k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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📋 Description

• Serve as lead finance partner to Product & Technology leadership and a second department • Provide analysis for prioritization and investment trade-offs • Join planning and roadmap conversations as the voice of finance • Translate SRE, AI/ML, and Data Engineering roadmaps into budgets, forecasts, and headcount and contractor plans • Lead annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasting, and multi-year planning • Facilitate vendor spend optimization across cloud, hosting, software, and contractor support • Lead data center and infrastructure CAPEX planning, including capacity, hardware refresh, and depreciation impacts • Partner with Accounting on software capitalization and capitalizable labor and contractor costs • Model total cost of ownership and build-versus-buy decisions • Lead month-end close, forecasting, and variance analysis • Present resource plans and financial performance to senior leaders, including the CPTO and CFO • Build and maintain dashboards connecting spend to technical and product outcomes • Coach and mentor FP&A analysts • Set standards and share best practices for financial business partnership • Lead projects improving financial modeling, departmental reporting, and business insights • Help manage the financial planning and reporting system, including documentation, process improvements, and module roll-outs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus 7+ years of experience in FP&A, financial business partnering, or corporate finance • Experience supporting a technology, engineering, or product organization • Experience partnering with technical and product teams • Experience working at a strategic level on business and organizational-wide goals • Strong financial modeling and analytical skills • Excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting to executives • Track record of building credibility with senior stakeholders and influencing without authority • Experience supporting multiple divisions or business units simultaneously • Experience mentoring or coaching other analysts • Experience leading process improvement projects • MBA or CPA preferred • Tech-specific planning experience preferred, including data center or infrastructure CAPEX, software capitalization (ASC 350-40), headcount planning, and contractor or vendor spend • Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning preferred • Finance business intelligence and reporting experience preferred • Experience in a nonprofit, open-source, or mission-driven organization preferred • Understanding of free culture, free software, or online rights movements preferred • Non-US employees must have current work authorization in their location

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first organization • Annual department offsite, strategy alignment trips, and global community conferences (2–3 trips per year) • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Compensation adjusted to country of hire for applicants outside the US • U.S. benefits and perks (details linked in the posting)

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