FP&A AI Architect — Build AI-Driven Forecasting

Gusto, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Gusto’s Finance team is rebuilding planning, forecasting, and analysis with AI at the center. As Staff FP&A AI Architect, you’ll design the architecture that turns FP&A into automated, insight-generating processes and partner with CFO org, FP&A, Accounting, Data, and Engineering.

This new role on the Enterprise AIT team will drive intelligent transformation across internal apps, delivering trusted AI outputs with traceability and SOX/compliance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in FP&A, corporate finance, finance systems, data science, or finance engineering.
• 3+ years designing or leading AI/ML or advanced automation for finance.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic systems (prompting, RAG, tool use, evals) and classical forecasting (time series, regression, ensembles).
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, a modern data stack (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, dbt), and BI tools.
• Experience with enterprise planning platforms and ERP/GL systems.
• Track record shipping production‑grade solutions under SOX, data governance, and security review.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategy: Define the multi-year architecture and roadmap for AI-enabled planning, forecasting, and reporting, prioritizing use cases by value, feasibility, and risk.
• Build forecasting systems: Architect driver-based, ML-assisted forecasts for revenue, headcount, opex, and cash, combining statistical models with LLM workflows and benchmarking against human forecasts.
• Automate analysis: Build agentic workflows for variance commentary, flux analysis, scenario modeling, board and QBR narratives, and ad-hoc “ask the numbers” questions.
• Own the finance data foundation: Work with Data Engineering on governed data models connecting the GL, billing, CRM, HRIS, and planning tools, so AI outputs are traceable and auditable.
• Embed controls and trust: Establish evals, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, lineage, and audit trails that meet SOX, security, and privacy requirements.
• Evaluate and select tools: Drive build-vs-buy decisions across planning platforms, LLM providers, and orchestration frameworks.
• Lead through influence: Mentor analysts and engineers, create reusable patterns and templates, and drive AI adoption across Finance.
• Measure impact: Report on cycle-time reduction, forecast accuracy, analyst capacity freed, and decision latency.

Skills

SQL

Python

LLMs

AI architecture

Snowflake

Databricks

dbt

BI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

CPA/CFA or advanced quantitative degree

Tools

SaaS planning platforms (Anaplan, Adaptive, Pigment)

ERP/GL systems

Job description

Gusto’s Finance team is rebuilding planning, forecasting, and analysis with AI at the center. As Staff FP&A AI Architect, you’ll design the architecture that turns FP&A into automated, insight-generating processes and partner with CFO org, FP&A, Accounting, Data, and Engineering.

This new role on the Enterprise AIT team will drive intelligent transformation across internal apps, delivering trusted AI outputs with traceability and SOX/compliance.