Lead Financial Analyst – Strategic Business Partner, Product & Technology

Job 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)