FP&A Manager (R&D)

The FP&A team partners with executive team members across the company to provide timely, fact-based, data-driven decision support to help drive critical decisions. The team drives annual planning, owns the operating plan and long-term financial model, internal financial reporting, and financial and analytical tools to make GitLab predictable. In this individual contributor role, you will work closely with the R&D team and report to the Director of FP&A. 

• Business Partnership: Influence outcomes in cross-functional settings often. Own relationships with partners while providing advice and guidance.
• Financial Modeling: Quickly develop models to address new and ambiguous business issues or opportunities. Oversee modeling efforts of others in an effective manner.
• Review: Review work and analysis produced by junior members of the team.
• Planning and Financial Analysis: Improve and drive financial processes and policies with minimal guidance.
• Data Analysis: Translate analysis into clear data-driven storylines and actionable insights / proposals.
• Project Management: Run large complex projects that improve our ability to make better data driven insights or makes the company more efficient.
• Communication: Target audience basic influence to CFO, CFO staff and functional EVPs.
• Mentorship: As a senior individual contributor, you mentor other team members in modeling, analysis and finance.
• Autonomy: independently deliver and effectively prioritize projects assigned with clear scope.
• Extends the Senior FP&A Analyst responsibilities.

• Communication: Demonstrated an ability to influence business stakeholders.
• Experience as an expert owning a business function as a finance business partner.
• Experience with pricing is helpful but not a requirement.
• 7-10 years of experience in a finance role ideally with enterprise SaaS software model.
• Experience in the B2B space. 
• A shared interest in our values, and working in accordance with those.
• Ability to learn and use GitLab. 
• Extends the Senior FP&A Analyst requirements.

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.