Analyst, Engineering FP&A

FinOps Weekly; India; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

FinOps Weekly seeks a Bangalore-based FP&A Analyst to provide embedded financial analysis for engineering investment, workforce planning, capitalization discipline, and technology cost structure. The role partners with FP&A leaders across engineering, product, and corporate teams to deliver accurate models and actionable insights.

Responsibilities include forecasting, variance analysis, and scenario planning for headcount, contractors, cloud costs, and tooling.

Qualifications

• This role requires 3+ years in finance, FP&A, or related fields.
• Strong financial modeling, Excel, and analytical abilities are essential.
• Ability to translate data into clear business narratives for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support FP&A with recurring analysis, reporting, and decision support across workforce and capacity.
• Translate priorities into structured analysis and model inputs.
• Prepare monthly engineering financial review materials and variance analyses.
• Collaborate on roadmap affordability, build-versus-buy analyses, and planning templates.
• Maintain Engineering/R&D planning and forecast models aligned with standards.
• Build workforce models by team, location, and initiative.

Skills

Financial modeling

Excel

Analytical thinking

Workforce planning

Scenario analysis

Vendor analytics

BI tools

ERP systems

Communication

Detail orientation

Education

B.Com or MBA in Finance & Accounting

Tools

Planning systems

BI tools

ERP / financial systems

Job description

FP&A Analyst

About the Role

This Bangalore-based FP&A Analyst role supports symplr’s Technology/R&D organization with embedded financial analysis and planning support. The position helps build the financial operating model for engineering investment, workforce planning, capitalization discipline, productivity, and technology cost structure. The role partners closely with the Sr. Director, Engineering FP&A, the U.S.-based Engineering FP&A Manager, Engineering leadership, Product & Professional Services FP&A, Accounting, HR, Procurement, and Corporate FP&A. Its focus is to convert engineering activity, capacity, and cost drivers into accurate models, clear reporting, and actionable business insight. This is a hands‑on role for someone who is highly analytical, curious, and comfortable working deeply across workforce data, engineering spend, capitalization inputs, contractor and vendor analytics, cloud and tooling costs, and recurring FP&A deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Engineering/R&D FP&A with recurring analysis, reporting, and decision support across workforce, capacity, roadmap investment, technical cost structure, and productivity.
• Translate engineering priorities, product and platform initiatives, security work, technical debt, AI/platform investments, and maintenance activity into structured analysis and model inputs.
• Prepare monthly engineering financial review materials, variance analysis, metrics packages, and supporting schedules for Engineering and FP&A leadership.
• Partner with Product & Professional Services FP&A on roadmap affordability, product commitments, implementation implications, and build-versus-buy analysis.
• Maintain detailed Engineering/R&D planning and forecast models in line with Corporate FP&A templates, calendars, definitions, and submission standards.
• Build and update workforce models by team, location, product/platform area, initiative, employee/contractor mix, hiring status, and forecast period.
• Support monthly forecasting, annual planning, variance analysis, and scenario analysis for Engineering/R&D spend, headcount, contractors, vendors, cloud/tooling, and other technology‑related costs.
• Support R&D capitalization and OpEx/CapEx analysis by organizing inputs, tracking activity, maintaining schedules, and partnering with Accounting/CAO under FP&A leadership guidance.
• Analyze cloud, tooling, vendor, contractor, and technology infrastructure spend tied to engineering productivity and cost efficiency.
• Maintain reporting on R&D spend as a percentage of revenue, cost by product/platform/initiative, capitalized versus expensed development, innovation versus maintenance capacity, and location mix.
• Support vendor rationalization, contractor mix, location strategy, and build-versus-buy analysis with clean datasets, trend analysis, comparisons, and scenario outputs.
• Create repeatable reports, dashboards, and analysis packs that improve visibility into engineering investment, capacity, productivity, and trade‑offs.
• Ensure outputs are accurate, traceable, clearly documented, and aligned with FP&A definitions, KPI standards, model architecture, and version‑control expectations.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve recurring analysis and reporting processes.
• Maintain strong data hygiene across headcount, vendor, contractor, capitalization, cloud/tooling, and cost‑center reporting inputs.
• Build fluency in Engineering/R&D operations and work collaboratively across U.S. and India time zones.

Required Skills

• B.Com or MBA in Finance & Accounting.
• 3+ years of progressive experience in finance, FP&A, business finance, investment banking, corporate finance, consulting, analytics, or a related field.
• Strong financial modeling, Excel, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to manage detail while presenting a clear business narrative.
• Working knowledge of workforce planning, scenario analysis, variance analysis, cost‑center reporting, vendor analytics, and productivity metrics.
• Comfort working with planning systems, BI tools, ERP/financial systems, and large datasets.
• Strong ownership, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to question assumptions.
• High attention to detail and strong documentation habits.
• Ability to communicate analysis, risks, and drivers clearly to finance and non‑finance stakeholders.
• Commitment to producing accurate, timely, and explainable work.
• Bias toward practical process improvement, scalable reporting, and continuous learning.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting Engineering, Technology, Product, R&D, SaaS, enterprise software, healthcare technology, or similarly complex operating environments.
• Experience with workforce planning, headcount modeling, variance analysis, forecast support, vendor/contractor spend analysis, or management reporting.
• Exposure to PE‑backed, high‑growth, scaling, multi‑product, or operationally complex businesses.
• Familiarity with R&D capitalization, OpEx/CapEx concepts, cloud/tooling cost analysis, and technology cost structures.
• Interest in automation and AI‑enabled analytical improvements.

Cloud Platforms & Technologies

• Cloud Providers: Cloud
• Planning Tools: Planning systems
• Reporting & BI: BI tools, dashboards, Excel
• ERP / Financial Systems: ERP / financial systems
• Data & Analytics: Large datasets, analytical automation

FinOps Responsibilities

• Analyze cloud, tooling, vendor, contractor, and technology infrastructure spend.
• Support R&D capitalization and OpEx/CapEx analysis.
• Track capitalized versus expensed development activity.
• Maintain reporting on R&D spend as a percentage of revenue and cost by product/platform/initiative.
• Support vendor rationalization, contractor mix analysis, location strategy, and build-versus-buy evaluation.
• Improve visibility into engineering investment, capacity, productivity, and trade‑offs through repeatable reporting.
• Maintain traceable and well‑documented outputs aligned to FP&A standards.

Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers broad exposure to engineering finance across workforce planning, forecasting, capitalization, and technology cost analysis. It sits close to engineering and business leadership, with direct involvement in the reporting and decision support that shape investment choices. The position also provides scope to improve reporting processes and build more scalable analytical tools. For candidates who want an embedded FP&A role in a growing, cross‑functional environment, it offers substantial ownership and variety.