Finance Business Partner R&D

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In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

Our Strategic Finance Business Partnership team serves as a trusted advisor to the company driving our financial planning forecasting and review processes and guiding critical decisions through insightful analyses and strategic thought partnership. We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Business Partner to support our R&D (EPD) organization and own the finance relationship with our CTO and Co-founder/CPO.

This is a high-impact role on a lean team: you’ll operate independently bring structure to ambiguous problems and influence senior leaders with clear financial narratives. You’ll partner deeply across Engineering Product and Design leadership to strengthen executive-level visibility into financial performance improve forecast accuracy and evaluate strategic investments across our product and platform roadmap.

• Serve as the primary strategic finance partner to the CTO and CPO for EPD planning forecasting reporting and key decision-making. Build trusted relationships with EPD leads and proactively surface insights risks and opportunities.

• Build financial models to evaluate investment opportunities and strategic initiatives (e.g. vendor and tooling decisions infrastructure spend).

• Develop and refine scalable reporting and analytical frameworks to increase transparency and decision velocity and guide day-to-day execution and strategy.

• Prepare high-quality materials for executive and Board-level reviews translating complex financial and operational information into clear concise narratives.

• Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate and timely reporting provide clear narratives for variances and translate results into actionable recommendations for executives and functional leaders.

• Drive process improvements through AI and automation to streamline workflows and strengthen planning discipline forecasting accuracy and cross-functional alignment.

• Execute ad hoc analyses for executive requests and time-sensitive decisions with strong judgment speed and attention to detail.

• 6+ years of progressive experience in FP&A/Strategic Finance investment banking accounting private equity or a combination; experience directly supporting technical organizations (R&D) strongly preferred.

• Strong financial modeling (Advanced Excel/Google Sheets) and analytical capabilities with comfort handling ambiguity and connecting financial outcomes to operational drivers.

• High standards for accuracy follow-through and ownership; independent & “get it done” attitude with strong attention to detail and minimal need for oversight.

• Exceptional communication and executive presence. Ability to influence executives with concise structured storytelling and clear recommendations.

• Strong cross-functional partnership skills and a collaborative low-ego working style; able to work effectively with cross-functional partners including Engineering/Product/Design Accounting and Procurement.

• Familiarity with AI tools such as Claude Code Gemini or Codex is a plus. You don’t need to be an AI expert but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results!

• Experience at a high-growth SaaS company.

• Familiarity with planning and reporting systems (e.g. Anaplan Adaptive Planning Pigment).

• Experience with ERP/accounting systems (e.g. NetSuite) and partnering closely with Accounting for close/actuals.

• Basic SQL skills is a plus

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart share our company values and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race color religion national origin age sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) marital status ancestry physical or mental disability genetic information veteran status gender identity or expression sexual orientation or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation equity and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location the role’s scope and complexity and the candidate’s experience and expertise and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco the estimated base salary range for this role is $185000 - 215000 per year.

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