FP&A Lead

Change.org; United States; Remote; USD 154,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Change.org, the world’s largest platform for democracy, seeks an FP&A Lead to own budgeting, forecasting, and reporting with AI-enabled workflows. You’ll build the models, run scenarios, and present insights to leadership from a place of strong business judgment.

This is a remote, full-time role based in the United States, reporting to the VP of Finance. You’ll work autonomously and drive core financial processes across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in FP&A, finance, or analytical roles with ownership of budgeting and forecasting
• Proven ability to build or improve FP&A processes and scalable workflows
• Demonstrated use of AI to drive output with concrete examples
• Advanced spreadsheet modeling with scripting (VBA or Google Apps Script)
• Strong executive-facing communication and cross-functional partnering

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end FP&A: budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and monthly reporting
• Automate departmental and executive reporting with durable pipelines
• Model revenue and expense streams; stress-test assumptions
• Architect AI-enabled FP&A workflows to reduce manual work
• Partner with department leaders and translate numbers into decisions

Skills

FP&A experience

AI fluency

Executive communication

Business partnering

Self-direction

Tools

Excel

VBA/Apps Script

Job description

Change.org is the world's largest platform for democracy, and we're hiring an FP&A Lead to give our leaders the financial clarity to invest boldly behind that mission. You'll own our financial planning and analysis end-to-end, building the reporting, models, and forecasts that leadership relies on to make decisions. This is a high-ownership role where you'll operate with real autonomy, not contributing to a cycle but running it. We're looking for someone with sharp analytical judgment and strong business sense who uses AI fluently to work faster and build processes that last. This is a principal level, individual contributor role, reporting to the VP of Finance.

At a time when dissatisfaction with democracy globally is at an all-time high, we're investing heavily in using AI to build the most powerful tools in the world to give people greater voice, while bringing people across the political spectrum together to identify shared solutions.

Our core petitions platform, used by more than 100 million people annually, is growing rapidly - and we are rebuilding it from the ground-up using new tools to turn anyone into a powerful civic leader on the issues they care about. Soon we will launch a new platform to identify the >80% of issues that most people agree on, locally and nationally, and to mobilize hundreds of millions of people to advocate for those common-ground solutions.

To realize this vision, we're expanding the most talented team in the world at the intersection of technology and social impact - all focused every day on building healthier democracies globally.

Key Outcomes:

• Automate departmental and executive reporting, own end-to-end. Management reporting (departmental P&Ls, exec dashboards, monthly/board exhibits) runs on durable, repeatable, low-touch pipelines they built - not manual rebuilds. Accounting keeps statutory/audit; responsible for everything management-facing.

• Operates the full financial model with minimal oversight and high executive trust. Runs the model you architect - including the revenue line from BI - and owns the expense side outright: opex, margins, variance. Stress-tests assumptions and runs scenarios; you own the model and the final number.

• Architects AI-enabled FP&A workflows, not just uses AI. Systematically cuts manual effort and improves data quality, building processes that outlast any individual analyst.

• Strategic thought partner to leadership and budget owners. Partners directly with department leaders on spend - surfacing variances, flagging risks, bringing a point of view and driving accountability through influence (escalating decisions to you, not approving them).

• Translates the numbers into decisions. Turns variance and business-health analysis into clear, stakeholder-ready narratives that help non-finance leaders move faster.

The most important core competencies for the role are:

• End-to-end FP&A ownership You run budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and monthly reporting cycles with real accountability for accuracy and timelines. You've owned a cycle, not just contributed to one.

• Applied AI & technical fluency. You use AI to drive real work, not as a novelty. Whether that’s accelerating analysis, building automations, or teaching yourself to code to unlock a workflow. You can point to specific things you've shipped because of it, and say where AI helped and where it didn’t.

• Systems thinking & process design You spot inefficiencies and design repeatable, scalable processes and infrastructure that improve over time rather than getting rebuilt each cycle.

• Strategic financial storytelling You synthesize complex data into clear, leadership-ready narratives - not just outputs. You hold a point of view, push back with data, and tailor the read to the audience.

• Business partnering & executive presence You operate as a pragmatic, service-oriented partner with high trust across functions and leadership. You're sought out, not just responsive - credible through accuracy and judgment.

• Self-direction & ownership You're comfortable being the entire FP&A function: setting priorities, operating with real autonomy, and knowing when to run with something versus loop in the Head of Finance.

Target experience:

• 10+ years in FP&A, finance, or analytical roles , with demonstrated ownership of full budgeting and forecasting cycles.

• Track record of building or materially improving FP&A processes, designing repeatable, scalable workflows, not just executing them.

• Demonstrated ability to use AI to drive real output: accelerating analysis, building repeatable workflows, or self-teaching technical skills to ship something that worked. Concrete examples required; finance context is a plus, not a prerequisite.

• Advanced spreadsheet modeling with scripting: VBA and/or Google Apps Script

• Strong executive-facing communication: presenting to or supporting CFO, VP Finance, or C-suite.

• Nice-to-have

Interested? Great! Here's what you should know:

This is a full time remote role based in the United States. This is an individual contributor role and does not have direct reports.

We're currently able to hire staff based in the following US locations: Arizona (AZ), California (CA), Colorado (CO), District of Columbia (DC), Georgia (GA), Illinois (IL), Iowa (IA), Kansas (KS), Kentucky (KY), Maryland (MD), Massachusetts (MA), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), North Carolina (NC), Ohio (OH), Oregon (OR), Pennsylvania (PA), Rhode Island (RI), South Carolina (SC), Texas (TX), Vermont (VT), Virginia (VA), Washington (WA).

Our compensation philosophy is based on pay equity. All of our salaries are determined before we launch a role - they are based on a predetermined salary scale, the level on that scale and the cost of labor for that location. The annual salary of a FP&A Lead is $182,000 in SF /NYC, $173,000 in Austin/Boston/LA/Seattle/DC/Chicago and $154,000 in all other cities.

Benefits and perks also vary based on location.

Our evaluation process is as follows:

• Recruiter Screen (40 min)
• Hiring Manager Screen (45 min)
• Take-Home Exercise (~2 hours)
• Team Interviews
• References

We recognize that people assess their qualifications differently, and you may not meet every requirement listed. If you believe you could be successful in this role, we encourage you to apply.

Change.org is an open platform designed to serve people across the full range of viewpoints. Effectively supporting that mission requires teams with a wide variety of experiences, skills, and perspectives, which we consider essential to our work.

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