Senior Finance Manager, R&D

Sprout Social; United States; Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Sprout Social seeks a Senior Finance Manager to join the FP&A team. This strategic role involves partnering with R&D leadership and guiding financial decisions. The ideal candidate will possess extensive FP&A experience and a strong analytical mindset to drive processes that align with the company's strategic goals.

Benefits

Flexible paid time off

Health and wellness programs

Educational development opportunities

401k match program

Qualifications

• 9+ years of FP&A experience, particularly in R&D.
• Ability to build enterprise SaaS financial models.
• Experience in financial reporting and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead forecasting and budgeting for R&D.
• Drive financial modeling for product investments.
• Deliver analysis to senior leadership.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Strategic thinking

Tools

Tableau

Vena

Job description

We know experience is built in a number of ways. Even if your background doesn’t match the exact requirements, we encourage you to apply and share any relevant skills in a cover letter. Sprout welcomes all candidates to apply, including those who identify as BIPOC, women and underrepresented genders in tech, LGBTQIA+, parents, veterans, persons with disabilities and people of all faiths.

Senior Finance Manager, R&D

DescriptionSprout Social is looking to hire a Senior Finance Manager on the FP&A team to support the R&D function. This high-impact individual contributor role reports directly to the VP of FP&A and serves as a strategic partner to both our Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer. You’ll play a critical role in aligning financial decisions with our R&D strategy and long-term vision.

Why join Sprout’s Finance team?As a member of Sprout’s Finance team, you’ll help position the company for future growth while upholding compliance and integrity at the highest level. No matter your role, everyone on the team has the opportunity to help create best-in-class processes and practices that scale with the organization. Our team is unique because we value transparency and direct ownership—meaning, you’ll always have our trust to contribute meaningfully to our department and organizational success.

What You’ll Do

• Lead forecasting (headcount and discretionary spend), budgeting, and performance analytics (OKRs, KPIs) for the R&D function to guide strategic decisions and create long-term value
• Drive modeling related to product investments and pricing & packaging, with a deep understanding of the technical roadmap within the R&D organization
• Deliver insightful reporting and analysis to senior leadership in support of Sprout’s financial planning processes
• Partner cross-functionally with teams including Product, GTM, Accounting, and People Ops to provide strategic recommendations grounded in financial data
• Play a key role in our annual planning cycle, monthly forecasts, and performance metrics reporting

Sprout Social’s FP&A team is a critical driver of the company’s strategic direction and growth. We’re a fast-paced, high-impact team that thrives on data, collaboration, and innovation. As our business scales, we’re seeking a Senior Finance Manager who can evolve our financial strategy alongside it.

What You’ll BringYou’re analytically minded, highly collaborative, and able to balance strategic thinking with attention to detail. You’re comfortable navigating an evolving environment, excited to build scalable processes, and passionate about enabling data-informed decisions. If you're looking to join a collaborative, high-performing FP&A team that values transparency, accountability, and strategic partnership, this could be the role for you!

Minimum Qualifications:

• 9+ years of FP&A experience, with 2+ years of R&D-specific FP&A experience (e.g., R&D efficiency metrics, cloud hosting spend)
• Proven ability to build enterprise SaaS financial models and metrics
• Strong knowledge of financial statements, budgeting, and forecasting, with the ability to clearly present complex financial information
• Experience delivering reporting and analysis to executives and cross-functional teams
• Experience with financial planning and data visualization tools, such as Tableau and Vena

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leveraging AI or machine learning tools to enhance forecasting accuracy, identify trends, or automate financial analysis
• A track record of improving and scaling FP&A processes and systems
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate financial data into strategic insights

How You’ll Grow

Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:

• Completing Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new team members
  Developing a strong understanding of our product, customers, and business model
• Diving into our financial planning tools and reporting frameworks
• Learning the monthly forecast cycle and key performance reporting

Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:

• Owning end-to-end forecasting for R&D
• Delivering variance analyses and insights to support leadership decision-making
• Beginning to drive process improvements in forecasting and planning
• Building and maintaining complex financial models for key growth initiatives
• Informally supporting junior team members by sharing best practices or reviewing models as needed

Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:

• Becoming a trusted advisor to senior leadership across R&D
• Partnering with Product leaders to align financial plans with strategic goals
• Expanding FP&A capabilities through mentorship, process refinement, and tooling improvements

Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:

• Acting as a key strategic finance partner to R&D and Product leadership, helping drive alignment between investment decisions and business outcomes
• Owning and evolving long-range planning models for R&D, incorporating headcount, tooling, and roadmap-driven scenarios

Of course, what is outlined above is the ideal timeline. Business needs may shift, and other projects or responsibilities could be added at your manager’s discretion.

Our Benefits Program

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.

Individual base pay is based on various factors, including work location, relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements. In the United States, we have two geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires are:

• Zone 1 (New York, California, Washington): $150,650 (min), $188,320 (mid), $226,000 (max) USD annually
• Zone 2 (All other US states): $137,000 (min), $171,200 (mid), $205,400 (max) USD annually

The listed ranges represent the full earning potential in this position. Starting salaries for well-qualified new hires are typically around the midpoint of the range. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent, and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.

Base pay is only one element of an employee's total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan. Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance, and Modern Health (a wellness benefit). Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan, in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution. Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays. We have outlined the various components to an employee’s full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.

Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. Because Sprout Social is a federal contractor, we affirmatively recruit individuals with a disability and protected veterans. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report .

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DescriptionSprout Social is looking to hire a Senior Finance Manager on the FP&A team to support the R&D function. This high-impact individual contributor role reports directly to the VP of FP&A and serves as a strategic partner to both our Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer. You’ll play a critical role in aligning financial decisions with our R&D strategy and long-term vision.

Why join Sprout’s Finance team?As a member of Sprout’s Finance team, you’ll help position the company for future growth while upholding compliance and integrity at the highest level. No matter your role, everyone on the team has the opportunity to help create best-in-class processes and practices that scale with the organization. Our team is unique because we value transparency and direct ownership—meaning, you’ll always have our trust to contribute meaningfully to our department and organizational success.

What You’ll Do

• Lead forecasting (headcount and discretionary spend), budgeting, and performance analytics (OKRs, KPIs) for the R&D function to guide strategic decisions and create long-term value
• Drive modeling related to product investments and pricing & packaging, with a deep understanding of the technical roadmap within the R&D organization
• Deliver insightful reporting and analysis to senior leadership in support of Sprout’s financial planning processes
• Partner cross-functionally with teams including Product, GTM, Accounting, and People Ops to provide strategic recommendations grounded in financial data
• Play a key role in our annual planning cycle, monthly forecasts, and performance metrics reporting

Sprout Social’s FP&A team is a critical driver of the company’s strategic direction and growth. We’re a fast-paced, high-impact team that thrives on data, collaboration, and innovation. As our business scales, we’re seeking a Senior Finance Manager who can evolve our financial strategy alongside it.

What You’ll BringYou’re analytically minded, highly collaborative, and able to balance strategic thinking with attention to detail. You’re comfortable navigating an evolving environment, excited to build scalable processes, and passionate about enabling data-informed decisions. If you're looking to join a collaborative, high-performing FP&A team that values transparency, accountability, and strategic partnership, this could be the role for you!

Minimum Qualifications:

• 9+ years of FP&A experience, with 2+ years of R&D-specific FP&A experience (e.g., R&D efficiency metrics, cloud hosting spend)
• Proven ability to build enterprise SaaS financial models and metrics
• Strong knowledge of financial statements, budgeting, and forecasting, with the ability to clearly present complex financial information
• Experience delivering reporting and analysis to executives and cross-functional teams
• Experience with financial planning and data visualization tools, such as Tableau and Vena

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leveraging AI or machine learning tools to enhance forecasting accuracy, identify trends, or automate financial analysis
• A track record of improving and scaling FP&A processes and systems
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate financial data into strategic insights

How You’ll Grow

Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:

• Completing Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new team members
  Developing a strong understanding of our product, customers, and business model
• Diving into our financial planning tools and reporting frameworks
• Learning the monthly forecast cycle and key performance reporting

Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:

• Owning end-to-end forecasting for R&D
• Delivering variance analyses and insights to support leadership decision-making
• Beginning to drive process improvements in forecasting and planning
• Building and maintaining complex financial models for key growth initiatives
• Informally supporting junior team members by sharing best practices or reviewing models as needed

Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:

• Becoming a trusted advisor to senior leadership across R&D
• Partnering with Product leaders to align financial plans with strategic goals
• Expanding FP&A capabilities through mentorship, process refinement, and tooling improvements

Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:

• Acting as a key strategic finance partner to R&D and Product leadership, helping drive alignment between investment decisions and business outcomes
• Owning and evolving long-range planning models for R&D, incorporating headcount, tooling, and roadmap-driven scenarios

Of course, what is outlined above is the ideal timeline. Business needs may shift, and other projects or responsibilities could be added at your manager’s discretion.

Our Benefits Program

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting

Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.

Individual base pay is based on various factors, including work location, relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements. In the United States, we have two geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires are:

• Zone 1 (New York, California, Washington): $150,650 (min), $188,320 (mid), $226,000 (max) USD annually
• Zone 2 (All other US states): $137,000 (min), $171,200 (mid), $205,400 (max) USD annually

The listed ranges represent the full earning potential in this position. Starting salaries for well-qualified new hires are typically around the midpoint of the range. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent, and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.

Base pay is only one element of an employee's total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan. Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance, and Modern Health (a wellness benefit). Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan, in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution. Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays. We have outlined the various components to an employee’s full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.

Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. Because Sprout Social is a federal contractor, we affirmatively recruit individuals with a disability and protected veterans. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report .

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. We'll do all we can to ensure you're set up for success during our interview process while upholding your privacy, including requests for accommodation. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

Additionally, Sprout Social participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.

#LI-REMOTE

Sprout Social Inc. and its subsidiaries process personal data submitted through your application to assess your qualifications for employment and to inform our hiring decision and, where applicable, for required governmental reporting. For more information, please review Sprout's Global Applicant Privacy Notice .

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