Lead Financial Analyst – Strategic Business Partner, Product & Technology

. Serve as lead finance partner to Product & Technology leadership and a second department .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $110,000 - $181,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

Cloud

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as lead finance partner to Product & Technology leadership and a second department
Provide analysis for prioritization and investment trade-offs
Join planning and roadmap conversations as the voice of finance
Translate SRE, AI/ML, and Data Engineering roadmaps into budgets, forecasts, and headcount and contractor plans
Lead annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasting, and multi-year planning
Facilitate vendor spend optimization across cloud, hosting, software, and contractor support
Lead data center and infrastructure CAPEX planning, including capacity, hardware refresh, and depreciation impacts
Partner with Accounting on software capitalization and capitalizable labor and contractor costs
Model total cost of ownership and build-versus-buy decisions
Lead month-end close, forecasting, and variance analysis
Present resource plans and financial performance to senior leaders, including the CPTO and CFO
Build and maintain dashboards connecting spend to technical and product outcomes
Coach and mentor FP&A analysts
Set standards and share best practices for financial business partnership
Lead projects improving financial modeling, departmental reporting, and business insights
Help manage the financial planning and reporting system, including documentation, process improvements, and module roll-outs

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree plus 7+ years of experience in FP&A, financial business partnering, or corporate finance
Experience supporting a technology, engineering, or product organization
Experience partnering with technical and product teams
Experience working at a strategic level on business and organizational-wide goals
Strong financial modeling and analytical skills
Excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting to executives
Track record of building credibility with senior stakeholders and influencing without authority
Experience supporting multiple divisions or business units simultaneously
Experience mentoring or coaching other analysts
Experience leading process improvement projects
MBA or CPA preferred
Tech-specific planning experience preferred, including data center or infrastructure CAPEX, software capitalization (ASC 350-40), headcount planning, and contractor or vendor spend
Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning preferred
Finance business intelligence and reporting experience preferred
Experience in a nonprofit, open-source, or mission-driven organization preferred
Understanding of free culture, free software, or online rights movements preferred
Non-US employees must have current work authorization in their location

Comp & perks

Remote-first organization
Annual department offsite, strategy alignment trips, and global community conferences (2–3 trips per year)
Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace
Compensation adjusted to country of hire for applicants outside the US
U.S. benefits and perks (details linked in the posting)