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CreatorIQ, the operating system for creator-led growth trusted by 1,300+ global brands and agencies, is seeking a Senior FP&A Manager to serve as the embedded finance partner to Product and Engineering organizations. This is a hands-on, high-visibility role reporting to the VP of FP&A.
You will act as the primary finance business partner to Product and Engineering leadership, building relationships and credibility to influence strategic decisions. Key responsibilities include:
• Own budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for Product and Engineering, including headcount planning, cloud/infrastructure costs, and third-party software spend across strategic, annual, and quarterly planning cycles.
• Partner with Engineering leaders to understand and optimize cloud hosting costs (AWS/GCP/Azure), identifying efficiency opportunities and tracking unit economics as the business scales.
• Build forecasting models for variable, consumption-based costs across new product lines (cloud compute/storage, API usage, AI/LLM inference and token costs), tying usage drivers to revenue.
• Develop consumption-based pricing recommendations with underlying financial plans (margin targets, breakeven usage levels, sensitivity analysis) to support Product and executive decision-making.
• Own cost analysis specific to AI-related spend (model inference, token consumption, third-party AI vendor costs), tracking cost per query/output and evaluating margin impact of AI-powered features.
• Analyze team productivity and efficiency metrics (cost per engineer, output per engineer, R&D spend as % of revenue) to help leadership assess whether team structure and investment levels are producing expected output.
• Build and maintain ROI and business-case frameworks for major product and engineering investments (new features, platform re-architecture, build-vs-buy decisions, AI investments, M&A/tech integration).
• Partner on roadmap prioritization, bringing cost/benefit and capacity-allocation lens to planning cycles.
• Support Accounting in capitalization of internally developed software per GAAP (ASC 350-40).
• Design recurring reporting and dashboards (cost per engineer, R&D spend as % of revenue, infrastructure cost per customer/unit) and work with BI teams to build them.
• Support headcount planning and tradeoffs across Product and Engineering, including contractor and offshore support analysis.
• Actively engage with CreatorIQ's AI and automation initiatives, adopting tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and n8n in your own workflows and contributing ideas to extend their use across FP&A processes.
• Present findings and recommendations directly to Product/Engineering and executive leadership teams.
CreatorIQ operates in a flexible work model combining in-person and remote work. The company has been named a Fastest-Growing Company in North America on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for four years, is a leader in IDC MarketScape for Influencer Marketing Platforms, and has earned recognition as a best company to work for.
REQUIREMENTS:
• 10+ years of FP&A or finance business partnership experience, with 5+ years specifically supporting Product and Engineering organizations at a technology or SaaS company.
• Direct experience partnering with engineering leaders on cloud infrastructure cost management and optimization; credible understanding of cloud cost drivers.
• Hands-on experience forecasting variable, consumption-based costs and building usage-based pricing models.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM-related cost structures (inference costs, token-based pricing, API/vendor costs) and how they factor into product margin and pricing decisions.
• Experience building team productivity/efficiency metrics for Product and Engineering organizations and using them to inform headcount and investment decisions.
• Proven track record of being a business partner for Product and Engineering, translating between Finance and Technology teams.
• Track record of building ROI/business-case models for technology investments and using them to influence real prioritization decisions.
• Strong financial modeling and Excel skills; SQL a plus.
• Experience with financial planning tools (Abacum, Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, or similar) and ERP systems (Sage, NetSuite).
• Proficiency with and interest in AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT) and workflow automation tools (n8n) for research, analysis, communication, and to streamline recurring finance processes.
• Working knowledge of software capitalization rules (ASC 350-40) and how they apply to engineering headcount and project costs.
• Excellent communication skills, including ability to translate technical and engineering concepts into financial terms for finance and executive audiences, and vice versa.
• Bias toward being a proactive advisor, bringing insight to and challenging Product/Engineering planning, not just providing after-the-fact reporting.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or related field; MBA a plus but not required.
NICE TO HAVE:
• Prior experience at a B2B SaaS company with significant enterprise customer base.
• Experience supporting investor-grade reporting rigor of growth-equity or private-equity ownership structure.
• Exposure to M&A or technology due diligence.
