FP&A Manager, Product & Engineering

Freshworks; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental insurance

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Equity + ESPP

Flexible PTO

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Freshworks is seeking an FP&A Manager to join our Finance team as a dedicated business partner to our global Product & Engineering organization. This high-impact role focuses on planning, forecasting, investments, and performance management to support informed decisions.

You’ll collaborate with product leaders to understand financial impact, challenge assumptions, and guide resource allocation with a thoughtful financial perspective.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, or a related role.
• Strong finance business partner experience with leaders, understanding priorities and providing insights.
• Solid FP&A fundamentals including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
• Strong analytical skills to translate data into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Advanced Excel and Google Sheets for building financial models and analyses.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted FP&A partner to Product & Engineering, translating financial performance into decisions.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, linking headcount and investments to the financial plan.
• Build financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate investments and resource allocations.
• Analyze performance to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and provide recommendations.
• Partner with leaders on headcount and expense planning, helping assess tradeoffs and investments.
• Develop reporting and dashboards showing budgets, forecasts, and key drivers.
• Collaborate with Accounting during monthly close for accurate results and variance analysis.
• Deepen understanding of product and engineering cost drivers including cloud infra to improve efficiency.

Skills

FP&A fundamentals

Finance business partner

Analytical skills

Financial modeling

Communication skills

Independent / cross-functional

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

PowerPoint

Job description

Organizations everywhere struggle under the crushing costs and complexities of “solutions” that promise to simplify their lives. To create a better experience for their customers and employees. To help them grow. Software is a choice that can make or break a business. Create better or worse experiences. Propel or throttle growth. Business software has become a blocker instead of ways to get work done.

There’s another option. Freshworks. With a fresh vision for how the world works.

Freshworks Inc. builds uncomplicated service software that delivers exceptional employee and customer experiences. Our people-first approach to AI eliminates friction, helping businesses reduce complexity, lower cost-to-serve, and deliver faster, more human support through enterprise-grade yet easy-to-use CX and IT solutions. Nearly 75,000 companies, including Bridgestone, New Balance, Nucor, S&P Global, and Sony Music, trust Freshworks to power their Employee Experience (EX) and Customer Experience (CX) operations.

Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.

Job Description

We are seeking an FP&A Manager to join our Finance team as a dedicated business partner to our global Product & Engineering organization.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role for an experienced FP&A professional who enjoys working closely with business leaders, understanding what drives their organization, and turning financial data into insights that support better decisions.

Reporting to the Sr. Manager, FP&A, you'll partner with Product and Engineering leaders on planning, forecasting, investment decisions, and performance management. You'll help leaders understand the financial impact of their decisions, challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and bring a thoughtful financial perspective to how we allocate resources.

You don't need to be a Product & Engineering finance expert on day one. We're looking for someone with strong FP&A fundamentals, excellent business-partnering instincts, and the curiosity to learn the operational and technical drivers behind our Product & Engineering organization.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a trusted FP&A business partner to Product & Engineering leaders, helping them understand financial performance and make informed business decisions.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for your areas of the Product & Engineering organization, connecting headcount, investments, and other operational drivers to our financial plan.
• Build financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate investments, resource allocation decisions, and other business opportunities.
• Analyze financial and operational performance, identify key trends, risks, and opportunities, and translate your findings into actionable recommendations.
• Partner with leaders on headcount and expense planning, helping teams understand tradeoffs and make thoughtful investment decisions.
• Develop reporting and dashboards that provide clear visibility into budgets, forecasts, and key business drivers.
• Partner with Accounting during the monthly close process to ensure accurate results and provide meaningful variance analysis.
• Develop a deeper understanding of Product & Engineering cost drivers, including cloud infrastructure and other technical investments, and help identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Create clear financial narratives and presentations that make complex information easy for Finance and business leaders to understand.
• Identify opportunities to improve and automate FP&A processes, reporting, and workflows so the team can spend more time on analysis and business partnership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, or a related role
• Strong experience as a finance business partner, with the ability to build relationships with business leaders, understand their priorities, and provide financial insights that support better decision-making
• Solid FP&A fundamentals, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial modeling
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work through complex data, identify what matters, and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations
• Advanced Excel and/or Google Sheets skills and experience building financial and operational models
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and bring a thoughtful financial point of view to business discussions
• A proactive, collaborative approach with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Additional Information

Please note this is a hybrid role with onsite expectations of 3x/week (Tues - Thurs) from our San Mateo, CA headquarters.

The annual base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $190,000. This role is also eligible for a target bonus.

Compensation is based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to location, experience, job-related skills, and level.

Freshworks offers multiple options for dental, medical, vision, disability, and life insurance. Equity + ESPP, flexible PTO, flexible spending, commuter benefits, and wellness benefits are also offered. Freshworks also offers adoption and parental leave benefits.

At Freshworks, we have fostered an environment that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion, welcoming colleagues of all backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities. We are committed to providing equal opportunity and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer environment that boosts the goals of our employees, communities, and business. Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.