Senior FP&A Manager, SaaS & Product Economics

Cornerstone OnDemand; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornerstone OnDemand seeks a Senior FP&A Manager to partner with Engineering, Product, and Technical Operations. You will own budgeting, forecasting, and ROI analyses for R&D, hosting costs, and product margins, shaping capital decisions and pricing strategy.

You will build and maintain product P&Ls, drive automation in data pipelines, and deliver board-ready reporting. Strong Excel, SQL, and Oracle PBCS skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.
• 7+ years of corporate FP&A experience, ideally supporting Engineering, Technical Operations, or Product in a SaaS/tech company.
• Strong understanding of SaaS economics, including gross margin, cost of sales, unit economics, and cost to serve.
• Experience modeling cloud, hosting, or infrastructure costs and familiarity with cloud pricing constructs.
• Experience building cost allocation models and product-level P&Ls with GAAP cost classification and depreciation.
• Advanced Excel proficiency with pivots, Power Query/Power Pivot, and dashboards; experience with Oracle PBCS.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary finance partner to Engineering, Product, and Technical Ops leadership; translate roadmaps into financial plans.
• Own R&D and Engineering budgeting/forecasting including headcount, contractors, tooling, and vendor spend.
• Build business cases and ROI for build-vs-buy, vendor rationalization, migrations.
• Support software capitalization analysis and track engineering efficiency metrics (R&D % of revenue, cost per engineer).
• Model hosting, cloud costs, and data-center strategy; forecast per-service, product, and customer segments.
• Develop product-level P&Ls and allocate shared costs using drivers like usage and headcount.

Skills

SaaS economics

Unit economics

Advanced Excel

SQL

Python/R

Power BI/Tableau

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Cost modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business

Tools

Oracle PBCS

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Cornerstone OnDemand seeks a Senior FP&A Manager to partner with Engineering, Product, and Technical Operations. You will own budgeting, forecasting, and ROI analyses for R&D, hosting costs, and product margins, shaping capital decisions and pricing strategy.

You will build and maintain product P&Ls, drive automation in data pipelines, and deliver board-ready reporting. Strong Excel, SQL, and Oracle PBCS skills are essential.