Director of FP&A

GitLab; United States; Teletrabalho; USD 180 000 - 280 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Equity compensation

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Generous Paid Time Off

Flexible schedule

Resumo da oferta

GitLab is seeking a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis to lead finance for our R&D organization—the largest spend area. You’ll partner with the CTO and R&D leaders to plan, forecast, and invest in headcount, cloud usage, AI, and tooling, linking investment to product outcomes and company targets.

You will drive annual planning, rolling forecasts, and FP&A process modernisation with AI-driven workflows, while building a high-impact team and guiding headcount strategies across time zones.

Qualificações

• Advanced financial modeling skills with industry best practices.
• Experience with NetSuite, Sisense, Adaptive Planning, or SQL.
• MBA, CFA, or CPA qualification is desirable.
• Strong ability to influence senior technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading a finance partner role for R&D/Engineering/Product.

Responsabilidades

• Lead FP&A for GitLab's R&D organization, including planning, forecasting, and investment decisions.
• Partner with CTO and R&D leadership to align headcount, infrastructure, AI/LLM usage, and costs to product outcomes.
• Lead annual planning and rolling forecasts across headcount, compensation, contractors, hosting/cloud, software, and tooling.
• Define and track R&D efficiency metrics and identify savings opportunities to reallocate resources.
• Oversee AI transformation of R&D finance workflows, with AI-enabled processes and reporting.

Descrição da oferta de emprego

• As Director, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), you’ll lead finance for GitLab’s Research & Development (R&D) organization, our largest operating expense area
• You’ll be the strategic finance partner to our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and their leadership team, owning R&D planning, forecasting, and investment decisions
• R&D builds our AI-powered development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) platform, which more than 100,000 organizations use
• You’ll connect investment in headcount, infrastructure, AI and cloud usage, and tooling to product outcomes, with clear measurement and reliable forecasts
• You’ll sit at the CTO’s staff table, shape GitLab’s long-range plan, and help leadership decide where to invest next, making R&D spend predictable
• Serve as the finance advisor to the CTO and R&D leadership. Hold partners accountable for execution against plan and connect R&D priorities to company financial targets
• Lead annual planning, and rolling forecasts for R&D. Own the operating plan across headcount, compensation, contractors, hosting and cloud, AI and large language model (LLM) costs, software, and tooling
• Build frameworks that connect R&D investment to product roadmap outcomes. Evaluate business cases for new initiatives, AI capabilities, build-versus-buy decisions, and vendor commitments, and present risks and opportunities to leadership
• Define and track R&D efficiency metrics, including R&D spend as a percentage of revenue, cost per engineer, hosting cost per user, and AI inference cost per feature. Identify large-scale savings and reallocation opportunities and see them through to completion
• Partner with People and R&D leaders on hiring plans, location strategy, and organizational design. Keep headcount forecasts accurate and reconciled to actuals
• Lead the AI transformation of R&D finance. Rethink planning, forecasting, and reporting workflows, and use AI tools to make them faster, more accurate, and more insightful
• Redesign FP&A processes, policies, and planning and reporting systems for efficiency and effectiveness, with AI in the center. Work with Accounting on capitalized software, accruals, and allocations, and with Procurement on process improvements
• Lead and develop your R&D finance team: hire and coach team members, set goals and priorities, and give expert feedback. Put GitLab’s values into practice through handbook-first, asynchronous collaboration across time zones

Benefits

• We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
• Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
• Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
• Generous Paid Time Off

Comfort working remotely and asynchronously, and the ability to use GitLabPreferred experience includes enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) finance; direct CTO partnership; NetSuite, Sisense, Adaptive Planning, or SQL; or a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) qualificationAdvanced financial modeling skills that follow industry best practices, expertise in Google Sheets, and hands-on experience with financial and data visualization tools. We don’t use Excel for modelingExpertise in influencing senior technical stakeholders and translating complex analysis into clear recommendations for executivesExtensive finance experience, including serving as the lead finance partner to an R&D, Engineering, or Product organization plus experience leading a team of analystsExperience leading process redesign and change in a finance team, including hands-on use of AI tools to improve how work gets doneA bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related fieldA strong understanding of financial statements, accounting principles, and R&D cost drivers, including engineering headcount, cloud hosting, AI and LLM usage, software licenses, and capitalized software development

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification.