Finance Associate, Reality Labs

Meta•Burlingame, CA

6d•$96,000 - $142,000

About The Position

The Finance Associate will join Reality Labs Finance, part of Finance & Business Planning, on the Product Finance team. The team oversees investments in new product development, headcount, operating expenses, and capital investment, and serves as a financial and strategic adviser to product and business leaders. This role is the finance partner for headcount, OpEx, and infrastructure capacity planning across Reality Labs. The associate will drive forecast and budget inputs, track performance against plan, and provide clear insights to leadership, with broad exposure across product, business, and infrastructure and direct interaction with senior finance and business leaders.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a relevant quantitative field.
At least 3 years of experience in corporate finance, management consulting, investment banking, strategy, business operations, and/or analytics.
Experience building financial models in Excel or Google Sheets, including forecasting, variance, and scenario analysis.
Experience building and owning recurring reporting end-to-end, with strong attention to detail.
Experience tailoring messaging for audiences of varying seniority, including turning analysis into a concise story for senior stakeholders.
Experience prioritizing competing workstreams based on impact, deadlines, and stakeholder needs.

Nice To Haves

Experience with headcount and OpEx planning at a technology company.
Ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices, such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, such as efficiency gains or quality improvements.

Responsibilities

Partner with business leaders to build business reviews, track investments, analyze deal-level financials, and turn analysis into clear leadership storylines and materials.
Own monthly headcount and OpEx tracking against plan and forecast, analyze variances, surface trends and spending risks, and recommend actions to stay within budget.
Drive forecast, budget, and long-range plan inputs by building bridges, scenarios, and risks-and-opportunities views that inform investment decisions, and partner with the cross-Reality Labs Finance team on close and forecast.
Consolidate infrastructure capacity demand, particularly AI-related demand, understand its drivers, and monitor usage and spending against plan.
Strengthen headcount, OpEx, and infrastructure governance by maintaining taxonomy and allocations, managing headcount debt and paybacks, and seeing budget trades, capacity reallocations, and savings through to closure.
Use AI tools to spearhead development and implementation of recurring reports, models, and dashboards to reduce manual work and improve accuracy.