FP&A Manager R&D & G&A

We’re looking for an FP&A Manager R&D & G&A to join our Finance team. This role is the financial lead for Engineering Product and G&A organizations with a clear mandate to drive financial discipline through planning forecasting and reporting while improving operational efficiency in headcount and vendor spend.

You will run a tight operating cadence across R&D and G&A: budget vs. actuals (BvA) rigor bottoms-up workforce planning and building scalable tooling and processes that keep teams moving fast while staying inside the company’s spend and cash guardrails.

If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF NY London or Berlin) the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday Tuesday and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance the role is fully remote. For location-specific details please connect with our recruiting team.

• Own the R&D + G&A spend envelope (OpEx + headcount) across Engineering Product Design Data and G&A functions setting clear spend and hiring guardrails and providing early visibility into risks and tradeoffs.
• Run planning and forecasting for your areas including annual planning quarterly reforecasts and monthly updates with clear assumptions and variance narratives.
• Lead workforce planning with bottoms-up headcount models and a dollar-based resource envelope partnering with People/Talent and functional leaders to sequence hiring against roadmap compliance and operational scale and coordinating with Strategic Finance where company-level narratives long-range parameters or cross-functional investment decisions require tight alignment.
• Partner with Procurement to manage internal tooling and SaaS spend and drive cost optimization including a tracked pipeline for renewals vendor rationalization and efficiency opportunities.
• Lead monthly BvA reviews and a decision-making cadence improving reporting and accrual accuracy and streamlining controls through automation (flag exceptions reduce manual review).

• Experienced FP&A partner to technical and corporate leaders with strong executive communication.
• Tech-forward operator – You go beyond Excel. You use AI tools (ChatGPT Claude Copilot) to automate clean and generate insights. You treat Finance like a product—always shipping improvements.
• Detail-obsessed – You know that a single error in commission logic or start dates can swing the forecast by millions. You sweat the details so the CFO doesn’t have to.

• Competitive compensation package including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

The San Francisco CA base pay range for this role is $180000 - $210000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills experience and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits equity-based compensation and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. 

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color gender expression or identity sexual orientation national origin citizenship age marital status veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

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From solo developers building their first app to the teams behind ChatGPT Shopify and PayPal if it needs to be fast reliable and beautifully built it runs on Vercel. Our platform powers millions of deployments a day. We started with a simple belief: the web should be fast for everyone everywhere. That belief became Next.js. Then a platform. Then the infrastructure layer for the AI-native web.We are backed by the amazing team at Accel and CRV and we're headquartered in San Francisco.