Senior FP&A Manager, SaaS Product & Engineering (Remote)

Cornerstone OnDemand; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornerstone OnDemand seeks a Senior FP&A Manager to partner with Engineering and Product, owning financial plans for R&D, hosting, and AI costs. You will build and defend business cases, manage headcount forecasting, and oversee software capitalization and GAAP-compliant reporting.

You will develop product-level P&Ls, allocate shared costs, and drive automation of data pipelines linking cloud usage to profitability. Strong Excel, Oracle PBCS, SQL, and data visualization skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of corporate FP&A experience, ideally supporting Engineering, Technical Operations, or Product in a SaaS or technology company
• Strong understanding of SaaS economics, including gross margin, cost of sales classification, unit economics, and cost to serve
• Experience modeling cloud, hosting, or infrastructure costs and familiarity with cloud pricing constructs
• Advanced Excel proficiency with dashboards and data models; experience with Oracle PBCS and related tooling

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary finance partner to Engineering, Product, and Technical Operations leadership
• Own R&D and Engineering budgeting and forecasting (headcount, contractors, tooling, vendor spend)
• Build business cases and ROI for build-vs-buy, vendor rationalization, and migration decisions
• Support software capitalization analysis with Accounting and track engineering efficiency metrics
• Forecast hosting and cloud costs across public cloud, colocation, and data centers
• Analyze infrastructure spend by service, product, and customer segment and drive optimization
• Model infrastructure vendor contracts (cloud, CDN, hardware leases) with depreciation and lease accounting
• Develop product-level P&Ls and cost allocation methodologies for shared costs
• Prepare periodic Board/CFO reports and dashboards highlighting engineering cost, hosting, and gross margin KPIs
• Drive automation of data pipelines and reporting; collaborate with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, and Legal

Skills

Data analysis

Excel

Communication

Collaboration

Forecasting

SQL

Python/R

Power BI/Tableau

Education

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

Tools

Oracle PBCS

Oracle SmartView

SQL

Python

R

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Cornerstone OnDemand seeks a Senior FP&A Manager to partner with Engineering and Product, owning financial plans for R&D, hosting, and AI costs. You will build and defend business cases, manage headcount forecasting, and oversee software capitalization and GAAP-compliant reporting.

You will develop product-level P&Ls, allocate shared costs, and drive automation of data pipelines linking cloud usage to profitability. Strong Excel, Oracle PBCS, SQL, and data visualization skills are essential.