Remote Senior FP&A Manager, SaaS & Product Finance

Cornerstone OnDemand; United States; Remote; USD 122,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornerstone OnDemand is seeking a Senior FP&A Manager to partner with Engineering and Product, owning financial plans for R&D, hosting, and margin. You will lead budgeting, forecasting, and ROI analyses for SaaS products, while driving GAAP-compliant reporting and process improvements.

The role emphasizes building driver-based forecasts, managing Oracle PBCS, and delivering actionable insights to senior leadership. Remote work within the United States is supported.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of corporate FP&A experience, ideally supporting Engineering, Technical Operations, or Product in a SaaS/tech company.
• Strong understanding of SaaS economics, gross margin, cost of sales vs. opex, unit economics.

Responsibilities

• Partner to Engineering and Product leadership, translating roadmaps into financial plans and trade-offs.
• Own R&D and Engineering budgeting and forecasting (headcount, contractors, tooling, vendor spend).
• Build business cases and ROI for build-vs-buy and vendor rationalization decisions.
• Support software capitalization with Accounting and track engineering efficiency metrics.
• Forecast cost of sales vs. operating expense, including hosting and cloud costs.
• Model infrastructure contracts, capacity, and data-center strategies.
• Model AI and consumption-based costs, and drive driver-based forecasts.
• Develop product-level P&Ls and cost allocations for forecasting and GAAP reporting.
• Maintain Oracle PBCS processes and improve planning workflows.
• Prepare periodic Board and CFO reports with cost, hosting, and margin KPIs.

Skills

FP&A leadership

Advanced Excel

SQL

Python/R

Power BI/Tableau

Cloud/SaaS costing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

Oracle PBCS

Excel

SmartView

Job description

Cornerstone OnDemand is seeking a Senior FP&A Manager to partner with Engineering and Product, owning financial plans for R&D, hosting, and margin. You will lead budgeting, forecasting, and ROI analyses for SaaS products, while driving GAAP-compliant reporting and process improvements.

The role emphasizes building driver-based forecasts, managing Oracle PBCS, and delivering actionable insights to senior leadership. Remote work within the United States is supported.