Finance Manager I, Platform

Pinterest; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Financial Manager focused on Technology Infrastructure to oversee financial strategy for its technology investments, primarily AWS. You will partner with infrastructure leadership to govern investments, manage vendor relationships, and ensure cost-effective service for Pinners and Advertisers while enabling innovation.

In this role, you’ll drive forecasting, budgeting, and analytics across annual and quarterly cycles, with an AI-first approach to improve forecasting

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance is required or equivalent
• Experience forecasting technology infrastructure expenses
• Experience with AI tools to accelerate financial analysis
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams end-to-end
• Strong business partnership and communication skills
• Proven ability to build high-level and detailed financial models
• Entrepreneurial, flexible, and collaborative mindset

Responsibilities

• Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure and TPM teams to forecast investments and infrastructure demand
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual variance analysis
• Identify opportunities to automate forecasting and reporting processes
• Embed AI tools into forecasting and finance decision-making
• Design usage prediction models for capacity needs
• Identify risks and opportunities and communicate key takeaways
• Conduct strategic analyses and present actionable insights

Job description

About Pinterest

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

About Pinterest

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

As a Financial Manager focused onTechnology Infrastructure, you will have financial and strategic oversight for managing and optimizing the significant investments Pinterest makes in its technology infrastructure (primarily AWS, our cloud-based computational and storage provider). This is a critical role that sits at the center of how Pinterest executes its technology and innovation strategy. You will play a key role - in partnership with technology infrastructure leadership - in governing our infrastructure investments, managing key vendor relationships (especially AWS) and ensuring we can cost effectively serve Pinners and Advertisers while also enabling future technological innovation … while also being able to allocate and track costs at the appropriate level within the company. These teams and technology service providers are the foundation of our online service as well as how our Engineering, Product and Design teams execute their work.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure and Technical Program Management teams to develop annual, monthly, and weekly operational investments and related infrastructure demand and financial forecasts
• Compile monthly, quarterly, and annual variance analysis
• Identify and drive initiatives to continuously improve, automate, and grow OPEX and infrastructure forecasting, and reporting tools and processes
• Champion and AI-First approach to Technology finance partnership — embedding AI tools into forecasting, metrics analysis, and finance decision-making to raise the bar for how Finance drives impact
• Design usage prediction models for short and long-term resource capacity needs
• Proactively identify risks and opportunities
• Perform strategic, time-sensitive analysis and communicate key takeaways

What We’re Looking For

• Experience with forecasting expenses, with a strong preference for prior experience managing technology infrastructure spending on public infrastructure cloud platforms and product offerings
• Experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate financial analysis and forecasting workflows, with a rigorous approach to validating outputs and maintaining critical ownership of final recommendations
• Experience in managing multiple work-streams end-to-end along with working across multiple functions and teams
• Expertise in building high-level and detailed financial models
• Strong business partnership skills and verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multi-task and deliver against timelines
• Entrepreneurial, flexible, and collaborative mindset
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as Accounting or Finance and a minimum of 5 years of Finance or Business Operational experience in a fast-paced industry

Relocation Statement

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement Statement

• We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only

$98,561—$202,918 USD

Our Commitment To Inclusion

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.