Senior FP&A Manager

About the role

Demandbase is seeking an experienced Senior FP&A Manager to serve as a strategic financial partner to the Engineering organization. This role involves owning headcount planning, forecasting, and spend analysis while supporting corporate FP&A processes such as budgeting and board-level reporting. The ideal candidate will provide actionable insights to drive growth and efficiency within a SaaS environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic finance partner to Engineering leadership, owning headcount planning, COGS and opex forecasting, and cost center management.
• Partner with Engineering leadership on key spend drivers such as capitalized software costs, infrastructure/cloud spend, or resourcing trade-offs.
• Develop and drive product-level P&Ls to provide visibility into profitability, cost allocation, and margin drivers.
• Define and monitor key operating metrics, connect them to financial outcomes, and proactively surface trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Own and diagnose root-cause drivers behind margin performance and flag risks to leadership.
• Support the annual budgeting process, rolling forecasts, and long-range strategic plan across business units.
• Partner with the VP of Finance to prepare materials for the Board of Directors, Investor Relations, and other financial stakeholders.

Required skills

• FP&A
• SaaS
• Financial planning
• Headcount planning
• Opex forecasting
• Cost driver analysis
• NetSuite
• Workday Adaptive Planning
• Google Sheets
• Financial modeling

Nice to have

• MBA
• CPA
• Corporate FP&A
• Board reporting

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field

About the Company

Demandbase is a pipeline AI platform that empowers GTM teams to automate growth at scale. The company is recognized as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area and is committed to building world-class technology and growing careers.