Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

MongoDB Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Manager, FP&A to lead the G&A FP&A team, partnering with Finance, Legal, People/HR, and IT to own planning, forecasting, and reporting. You will drive headcount planning, budgeting, and actuals reconciliation, and deliver insightful dashboards to executives.

You will mentor analysts, modernize planning tools (Pigment), and champion AI-enabled analytics in a fast-paced environment. Flexible remote or hybrid options in Austin, NY, or Dublin.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or economics; MBA a plus.
• 6+ years of FP&A or finance experience, with mentoring/team lead experience.
• Expert in financial modeling, Google Suite, Excel, and Pigment.
• Strong relationships with business partners at all levels; able to manage stakeholders.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to work under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of analysts for a world-class G&A FP&A function.
• Partner with G&A leaders across Finance, Legal, People/HR, and IT on plans and initiatives.
• Own G&A forecasting, budgeting, headcount planning, and actuals-to-plan reconciliation.
• Develop reporting for senior management, including CFO, CIO, and other executives.
• Modernize planning tools and automate processes, including Pigment usage; promote AI-driven analytics.
• Oversee month-end close activities for G&A and align workforce planning with HR.
• Collaborate with Recruiting and HR to ensure leadership teams have aligned headcount planning.

Skills

Financial modeling

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or economics

Tools

Pigment

Google Suite

Microsoft Excel

Job description

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) to lead our G&A FP&A team. You'll partner directly with senior G&A leadership, including Finance, Legal, People/HR, and IT to own financial planning, forecasting, and reporting across the G&A cost base, while building and developing a high-performing team of analysts. You communicate clearly, manage up and across with ease, and are able to successfully juggle multiple priorities. You are a driven self-starter who takes tasks from start to finish, is comfortable working with senior leadership, and enjoys working in a fast-paced, challenging environment. You are responsive, adapt quickly to change, embrace ambiguity, and champion the advancement of analyses, planning tools, systems, and controls.

The working model for this role is flexible. We are open to fully remote or hybrid in-office/remote in our Austin, New York, or Dublin offices.

Responsibilities

• People Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of analysts, setting the bar for a world-class G&A FP&A function and building a strong bench for future growth
• Business Partnering: Serve as the primary FP&A partner to G&A leaders (Finance, Legal, People/HR, and IT), building a deep understanding of their business drivers and ensuring their plans align with overall company objectives
• Forecast Coordination & Consolidation: Own the G&A forecasting and budgeting process end-to-end, including headcount planning and optimization, opex forecasting, and reconciliation of actuals to plan. Consolidate team-level outputs into a coherent G&A view and keep a pulse on how the function is performing against plan
• Management Reporting: Develop and deliver reporting that summarizes G&A performance and drives decision-making for senior management, including the Chief Financial Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Information Officer, Chief Legal Officer and other executive stakeholders
• Planning Systems & Financial Models: Partner business teams to modernize and automate G&A forecasting and planning tools, including continued build-out of our forecasting in the Pigment financial planning system
• AI Automation: Champion and standardize the use of AI across the G&A FP&A team to improve speed and quality of analysis
• Month-End Close: Oversee month-end close activities for G&A, including headcount reconciliations, accrual reviews, and budget-vs-actuals analysis and reporting
• Workforce Planning: Partner with Recruiting and HR to drive alignment on workforce planning and reporting for G&A executives and their leadership teams

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's Degree; finance, business, or economics preferred, MBA a plus
• 6+ years of experience within FP&A or other finance functions, including prior experience managing or mentoring a team
• Expert in financial modeling, Google Suite, Microsoft Excel, and Pigment (or comparable financial planning tools).
• Confidence to forge strong relationships with business partners at all levels of the organization; prior experience business partnering with G&A functions a plus. Strong ability to manage challenging stakeholders with varying incentives and needs
• Extremely organized with a natural bent toward making sense of mess
• Highly detail-oriented, with a track record of producing accurate, error-free work even under tight deadlines
• Highly articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to adjust your communication style to stakeholders at various levels of seniority and various levels of financial fluency
• Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions, and develop actionable recommendations
• Strong project / team management skills; an ability and desire to train and manage a team of analysts and successfully own and develop the cadence of a function

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is: $101,000—$198,000 USD