Strategic Financial Partner for R&D

1 week ago

San Francisco, California, United States 6sense Full time
Job Title: R&D Finance Leader

6sense, a leading provider of artificial intelligence-powered go-to-market solutions, is seeking a highly skilled R&D Finance Leader to drive the company's financial strategy and growth. As a key member of the finance team, you will partner with cross-functional teams to develop and execute comprehensive budget strategies, drive forecasting and annual planning, and provide financial insights to inform strategic decision-making.

About the Role:

The R&D Finance Leader will play a critical role in driving the company's financial strategy and growth. You will be responsible for crafting financial models that align with the company's strategic objectives, elevating financial planning from mere budget management to strategic investment in innovation, and ensuring every dollar spent maximizes engineering ROI and contributes to significant ACV/ARR growth.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Financial Leadership:
    • Serve as a key financial strategist for the R&D divisions, crafting financial models that align with the company's strategic objectives.
    • Elevate financial planning from mere budget management to strategic investment in innovation, ensuring every dollar spent maximizes engineering ROI and contributes to significant ACV/ARR growth.
  • Comprehensive Budget Oversight:
    • Champion the development and execution of comprehensive budget strategies across all R&D domains, incorporating sophisticated forecasting, resource allocation, and operational expense management to support scalable growth.
    • Ensure these strategies are robust, flexible, and aligned with long-term corporate visions.
  • Advanced Investment Analysis:
    • Spearhead advanced investment analysis, applying rigorous financial and risk assessment methodologies to evaluate and prioritize R&D projects.
    • Employ a strategic lens to investment decisions, focusing on long-term value creation and market differentiation.
  • Partnership and Collaboration:
    • Act as a primary financial liaison between R&D, Corporate FP&A, Accounting, and external stakeholders.
    • Forge strategic partnerships to refine financial models and operational efficiency, ensuring alignment with global financial strategies and compliance.
  • Global Strategy and Efficiency Optimization:
    • Leverage deep analytical insights to refine and optimize global operations, particularly focusing on the strategic significance of the India office.
    • Implement benchmarking and best practices to drive continual improvement in R&D efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Executive Decision Support:
    • Provide executive-level support by delivering actionable financial insights and analyses that drive strategic decision-making.
    • Evaluate complex scenarios to inform resource allocation, technological investments, and strategic project selections.
  • Financial Stewardship and Governance:
    • Uphold the highest standards of financial integrity and governance across R&D operations.
    • Ensure a culture of accountability, transparency, and strategic foresight in financial planning and analysis practices.
  • Innovation and Infrastructure Savings:
    • Identify and execute innovative projects to achieve aggressive infrastructure savings targets without compromising on growth or service quality.
    • Report on progress and adapt strategies to meet evolving technological and market demands.
  • Infrastructure Forecasting:
    • Manage detailed infrastructure forecasts and control spending to meet gross margin expectations.
    • Forecast non-Cost of Revenue (COR) infrastructure and underlying unit economics, including per product margins.
Qualifications:
  • 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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