Finance Manager

Who you are

• 5+ years in FP&A or strategic finance, including several at a SaaS or usage-based business. An investment banking, consulting or private equity background preferred; but strong modeling skills, ability to develop frameworks to solve complex problems and ability to run scenarios is a must
• A history of building 3-statement models from scratch, with scenario and sensitivity analysis, and of making structural changes to a model rather than only updating inputs
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and core accounting principles
• Advanced Google Sheets or Excel, and comfort with large datasets
• Deep command of SaaS metrics and their drivers, with a point of view on which ones actually matter at our stage
• Understanding of how financial data flows and experience reconciling systems
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and defining your own approach to problems that arrive without a defined scope
• Experience as the finance point of contact for non-finance leaders, and the ability to make financial concepts clear to people who don't speak finance
• Hands-on experience building AI workflows for finance work, including validating AI output and understanding where AI fails
• Deep curiosity about our business, product, customers, competitors and industry trends
• You want to own a function, not contribute to one. The monthly close, the operating model, and the planning cycle would be yours to run and to redesign
• You're comfortable being the only person on this work. There is no junior analyst supporting the role and no plan to add one. You will build it and run it yourself
• You take quality seriously. You know the difference between a variance explanation that's technically accurate and one that's actually useful to a business leader, and you hold yourself to the latter
• You notice when something is slower or more manual than it needs to be, and you fix it without being asked
• You feel confident communicating directly with department leaders about budget and headcount
• You're excited to build. The tooling, the reporting layer, and the automation work are all genuinely open, and there is room to make this function structurally better
• Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please apply anyway!

What the job involves

• Netlify’s Finance team builds the financial foundation that helps the company plan, operate, and make informed decisions
• The team owns our operating model, management reporting, budgeting and planning, and the company-level metrics leadership uses to understand performance and make tradeoffs
• As Finance Manager, you’ll own the core corporate finance cycle - from monthly reporting and forecasting to planning, scenario analysis, and KPI reporting - and help shape how those processes evolve as Netlify scales
• This is a hands-on role with meaningful room to improve how the function operates: strengthening the models and insights behind business decisions while using AI, automation, and better tooling to make Finance faster, more scalable, and less dependent on manual work
• Drive the monthly reporting cadence: updating operating models, variance analysis, and the management reporting package, with actionable insights for leadership
• Take full responsibility for the 3-statement operating model and driver-based forecast, including structural changes to how the model is built as our business scales
• Help drive the annual planning process, including planning templates, scenario models, and turning strategic priorities into the assumptions and targets the plan is built on
• Build and maintain the company-level KPI and metrics layer, including ARR, NRR, gross margin, CAC payback, and Rule of 40, and explain what moved and why each month
• Build the scenario and sensitivity models leadership uses to make capital and headcount decisions
• Own department-level budget tracking, and serve as the standing point of contact for department leaders on budget, headcount, and software spend
• Automate manual work across the close and forecast cycles using AI and better tooling, with measurable reduction in cycle time
• Opportunity to partner with GTM leadership on sales planning and KPI tracking

The application process

• When applying please include:
• A resume or short listing of your job history & skills (link to a LinkedIn profile would be fine). We appreciate a cover letter explaining why you would enjoy working in this role at Netlify to get to know you a bit better, though this is not required and will not impact your application. Our mission is to "build a better web" and that cannot be done without a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds and thoughts

Benefits

• We offer full benefits including flexible time off, sponsored mental health resources, at least 16 weeks of parental leave, $2k/yearly learning and development allowance, 401k, and more
• Build out a home office with a generous starting stipend. Expense your internet, cell phone, or co-working membership within a monthly allowance
• We are a distributed culture but we also like to get together and meet! Netli-meet your coworkers at annual team offsites and all hands