Finance Business Partner, R&D

1 month ago

San Francisco, California, United States 6sense Full time
Job Summary

As a key member of the 6sense finance team, the R&D Finance Leader will partner with cross-functional teams to drive strategic initiatives and ensure financial planning and analysis excellence. This role will serve as a financial advisor to the R&D organization, providing insights and recommendations to inform investment decisions and drive business growth.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and execute comprehensive financial plans and budgets for R&D, ensuring alignment with company-wide strategic objectives.
  • Collaborate with R&D leaders to evaluate and prioritize investment opportunities, applying rigorous financial and risk assessment methodologies.
  • Provide financial analysis and insights to inform operational strategy, including unit economics and cost optimization.
  • Forge strategic partnerships with cross-functional teams to refine financial models and operational efficiency.
  • Manage detailed infrastructure forecasts and control spending to meet gross margin expectations.
  • Assist with process and systems improvements to drive company growth and scaling.
Requirements
  • 7+ years of experience in product finance focused role at a SaaS or high-growth technology company.
  • Highly analytical and detail-oriented, with a strong aptitude and enthusiasm for complex problem-solving involving financial modeling and working with large data sets.
  • Experience and passion for SaaS and/or enterprise software business models and collaborating with SaaS engineering teams.
  • Proficient in using SQL to obtain data to support decision-making.
  • Proven experience working cross-functionally and is a thoughtful collaborator and great listener, keenly focused on understanding business challenges, building strong relationships, and driving impact.
  • Can communicate complex financial concepts with precision and clarity.
  • Displays a high level of genuine curiosity about our business, exhibits eagerness to learn, and is biased toward action.
What You'll Achieve
  • Be the source of truth in Finance on all R&D spend, setting annual budgets, creating detailed and accurate monthly reporting, and maintaining a rolling forecast to make sure leadership has clear visibility into resource deployment.
  • Partner deeply with your cross-functional counterparts to continually understand their current roadmap and ensure that they are adequately resourced to execute that plan, supporting their freedom to make tradeoffs in spend allocations to maximize outcomes.
  • Evaluate the unit-economics of new products & features and their impact to the overall company financials to inform operational strategy.
  • Dive deep into our existing tech stack and understand drivers of cost to both accurately forecast future usage and identify opportunities for optimization.

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