Director of FP&A

GitLab as the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) and lead finance for our Research & Development (R&D) organization. You'll be the strategic finance partner to our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and their leadership team, owning R&D planning, forecasting, and investment decisions.

Responsibilities

• You'll connect investment in headcount, infrastructure, AI and cloud usage, and tooling to product outcomes, with clear measurement and reliable forecasts.
• Additionally, you'll lead annual planning, rolling forecasts for R&D, and build frameworks that connect R&D investment to product roadmap outcomes.
• Lead finance for GitLab's Research & Development (R&D) organization, owning R&D planning, forecasting, and investment decisions.
• Serve as the strategic finance partner to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and their leadership team, connecting investment in headcount, infrastructure, AI and cloud usage, and tooling to product outcomes.
• Lead annual planning, and rolling forecasts for R&D, owning the operating plan across headcount, compensation, contractors, hosting and cloud, AI and large language model (LLM) costs, software, and tooling.
• Comfort working remotely and asynchronously, and the ability to use GitLab

Requirements

• Advanced financial modeling skills that follow industry best practices, expertise in Google Sheets, and hands-on experience with financial and data visualization tools. We don't use Excel for modeling
• Expertise in influencing senior technical stakeholders and translating complex analysis into clear recommendations for executives
• Extensive finance experience, including serving as the lead finance partner to an R&D, Engineering, or Product organization plus experience leading a team of analysts
• Experience leading process redesign and change in a finance team, including hands-on use of AI tools to improve how work gets done
• A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
• A strong understanding of financial statements, accounting principles, and R&D cost drivers, including engineering headcount, cloud hosting, AI and LLM usage, software licenses, and capitalized software development

Preferred

• Preferred experience includes enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) finance; direct CTO partnership; NetSuite, Sisense, Adaptive Planning, or SQL; or a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) qualification

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application

USD 168,000 - 285,600