Lead Financial Analyst, Strategic Business Partner – Product & Technology

Overview

This role is a business partnering position focused on strategic financial planning and analysis, serving as the strategic finance advisor to Product & Technology. The position also supports other key areas of the organization.

The department’s combined budget is more than $100M. As the most senior analyst on the Financial Business Partner team, you will drive improvements in financial planning, analytics, and business partnership practices.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Finance Partner to Product & Technology (and provide support for a second department).
• Act as lead finance partner to department leaders and budget owners, providing analysis that informs prioritization and investment trade-offs.
• Join planning and roadmap discussions early, raising financial tradeoffs and risks before commitments are made.
• Provide financial input into business strategy across technical infrastructure and product development objectives.
• Translate roadmaps from teams including SRE, AI/ML, and Data Engineering into budgets, forecasts, and headcount and contractor plans.
• Lead annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasting, and multi-year planning for your assigned departments.
• Facilitate vendor spend optimization across cloud, hosting, software, and contractor support.
• Plan for capital and technical accounting.
  • Lead data center and infrastructure CAPEX planning, including capacity, hardware refresh, and depreciation impacts.
  • Partner with Accounting on software capitalization, including project classification and capitalizable labor and contractor costs.
• Model total cost of ownership and build-versus-buy decisions, and clearly communicate financial impact to non-finance leaders.
• Lead insight and reporting, including:
  • Month-end close support, forecasting, and variance analysis with commentary on drivers, risks, and opportunities.
  • Present resource plans and financial performance to senior leaders, including the Chief of Product and Technology (CPTO) and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
  • Build and maintain dashboards connecting spend to technical and product outcomes.
• Lead, mentor, and strengthen the business partner function:
  • Coach and mentor FP&A analysts on modeling, analysis, and stakeholder partnership (including reviewing work and helping deliver executive-ready communication).
  • Help set standards for effective financial business partnership and share best practices.
  • Lead projects that improve the function, from scoping through roll-out (including streamlining multi-year financial modeling, departmental reporting, and business insights).
  • Support financial planning and reporting system management, including documentation, process improvements, and new module roll-outs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus 7+ years of experience in FP&A, financial business partnering, or corporate finance, including experience supporting a technology, engineering, or product organization.
• MBA or CPA preferred.
• Experience partnering with technical and product teams, with curiosity about how they work.
• Experience working at a strategic level on business and organizational-wide goals.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including experience presenting to executives.
• Track record of building credibility with senior stakeholders and influencing without authority.
• Experience supporting multiple divisions or business units at once.
• Experience mentoring or coaching other analysts and leading process improvement projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Tech-specific planning experience, such as:
  • data center or infrastructure CAPEX
  • software capitalization (ASC 350-40)
  • headcount planning
  • contractor or vendor spend
• Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning.
• Finance business intelligence and reporting experience.
• Experience in a nonprofit, open-source, or mission-driven organization.
• Understanding of the free culture, free software, or online rights movements.

Compensation & Benefits

• Anticipated annual pay range for applicants based within the United States: US$110,000 to US$181,000 (based on cost of living and other individualized factors).
• For applicants located outside of the US, pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire.
• Employer does not ask for or take into consideration salary history.

Location

• Remote role.
• Open to candidates between UTC-8 and UTC+1.
• Travel expectations: 2–3 trips per year (international and domestic).

Additional Travel / Offsite Expectations

• Annual department offsite.
• Strategy alignment with Product & Tech (P&T) leadership.
• Participation in global community conferences.