Manager, FP&A - R&D- Remote

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Posted Oct 9, 2026

Remote · US · ask about Worldwide Full Time

Est. $130K – $175K/yr

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Overview

This role is an FP&A business partner position supporting the CTO and Engineering organization, as well as the CCO organization, including Professional Services, Support, Training, and Customer Success. It is a manager-level individual contributor role spanning R&D investment and the direct and indirect costs of delivering and supporting the organization’s products.

The focus of the FP&A approach is to understand what happened, determine why it matters, and help the business decide what to do next.

Cloud infrastructure economics is central to the role. The position involves partnering with Engineering and Tech/FinOps to translate architecture, products, customers, usage patterns, capacity, and technical decisions into cost and gross margin, and to identify opportunities to improve those economics over time. The role also supports productivity and operating-leverage analysis across R&D and the CCO organization, connecting investment and capacity to business outcomes and scalability.

Responsibilities

Business partnering

CTO / Engineering / R&D

Serve as a key finance partner to the CTO and Engineering organization, providing financial and operational insight to R&D investment, resource allocation, productivity, and decision-making.
Deepen understanding of cloud infrastructure economics by partnering with Engineering and Tech/FinOps to connect product and customer usage, architecture, capacity, and consumption to unit economics and gross margin, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and scalability.
Apply a productivity lens to R&D investment, helping leaders understand how resources and capacity are deployed, what outcomes they support, and where operating leverage can improve.
Develop business cases and scenario analyses that inform investment priorities and technical and operating decisions.

CCO

Partner with CCO leadership across Professional Services, Support, Training, and Customer Success.
Develop a clear understanding of operational drivers of Services margin, capacity, utilization, staffing mix, and cost to serve.
Apply a productivity lens across customer-facing teams, connecting resources and capacity to business and customer outcomes.
Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and operating leverage while balancing customer needs.

FP&A & performance management

Own the budget, forecast, and performance outlook across the supported organizations, ensuring Finance has a clear and reliable view of results, risks, and opportunities.
Connect business activity and operational drivers to financial outcomes, including gross margin, cost to serve, and R&D investment.
Contribute to product P&Ls and product-level profitability views by connecting R&D investment, infrastructure costs, and customer-delivery costs to product economics.
Bring insights from the business back into the broader FP&A organization to inform company-level forecasts, planning, and management reporting.
Explain performance drivers, assess implications, and recommend appropriate actions.
Continuously improve models, data, and processes to enable more time for analysis and decision-making.

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Requirements

Demonstrated, hands-on depth in SaaS cloud infrastructure economics, including consumption drivers, unit economics, scalability, and gross-margin implications.
Approximately 5–8+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, finance analytics, FinOps, or a related field.
Experience in a $300M–$1B PE-backed or pre-IPO enterprise B2B SaaS company, or a highly comparable environment.
Experience partnering with Engineering, Technology, Product, or Tech/FinOps leaders.
Strong understanding of SaaS gross margin and cost-to-serve economics.
Exceptional financial modeling and analytical skills, including the ability to work through complex or imperfect operational data.
Ability to move independently from analysis to insight, forming clear points of view and recommendations.
Technical curiosity and enough fluency to engage credibly with Engineering and continue investigating beyond initial explanations.
Strong communication and influencing skills, including the ability to work effectively with senior leaders in an individual contributor capacity.