Director, Technology FP&A

Responsibilities

• Support Reddit’s Engineering Organization - Partner with Engineering leadership to provide financial modeling assistance for key business decisions including prioritizing resources and investments to get the best ROI. Develop understanding of Engineering related issues and priorities; reconcile those matters with long term forecasts.
• Strong Thought Leadership - Bring insights from industry knowledge and your business acumen to show a capability of influencing business leadership to drive results. You will have a passion for improving existing processes and be able to work across teams to achieve results.
• Deliver engineering P&Ls - Own financial forecasts, annual operating plan, budget tracking, and long range plan by partnering with various stakeholders. Establishing and communicating information about financial targets on a quarterly and annual basis; identifying and reporting risk and opportunity levels determined for the overall financial plan; providing actionable insights (e.g. productivity analysis, ROI, contractor spend optimization, capex management, etc).
• Cloud Reporting - Work closely with our team to track and report our KPIs against our most strategic Cloud Hosting agreements. Continue to optimize costs by working with engineers to balance workloads across our dual cloud environment. Run strategic projects in partnership with program management and engineering leaders to drive efficiencies and accountability for promised returns.
• Communications and Presentations – Provides strategic input for business decisions by overseeing the production of complex financial models that incorporate assumptions, expectations, and known risks; preparing presentations and other supporting materials for recommendations.
• Talent and Leadership – Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics or similar quantitative discipline (MBA, CPA, not required, but highly preferred)
• 13+ years in FP&A experience with 2+ years of experience supporting cloud infrastructure and cloud cost analysis, and 5+ years of people management (role will be actively managing a small but highly productive team)
• Must have experience working with AWS or GCP cloud products
• Experience working in investment banking or consulting required
• Experience working with Engineering a plus
• Strong understanding of financial statements including B/S, P&L and drivers for margin.
• Experience with owning and leading planning and forecasting, large data sets and sophisticated models, proven proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint presentations and deck creation
• Strategic thinker who demonstrates leadership, vision, and insight
• Hands-on manager with a strong finance background
• Strong work ethic; high sense of urgency; ability to learn and deliver results in tight timeline
• Experience partnering with stakeholders across the organization and drive projects forward
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment