FP&A Lead

Sierra • San Francisco, CA

1d • $175,000 - $225,000 • Onsite

About The Position

At Sierra, we’re creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney.
We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
As our FP&A Lead, you'll drive the processes and frameworks that connect our financial plan to company strategy, partnering cross-functionally to drive clarity on performance, resource allocation, and long-range trajectory. This is a high-ownership IC role for a builder who is energized by ambiguity and wants their fingerprints on how a Series E AI company understands its own business.

Requirements

• 8+ years of total experience, including meaningful time in corporate FP&A at a high-growth technology company, and exposure to either investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or a finance rotation at a top-tier firm.
• Direct experience owning or supporting annual planning, long range planning, budget vs. actuals, and monthly financial reviews in both a startup and larger environment where you have seen Corporate FP&A processes at scale.
• Experience implementing and managing modern FP&A planning tools, including configuration and model design, not just end-user experience.
• Exceptional financial modeling skills, including integrated 3-statement models, headcount models, and scenario frameworks built from scratch in spreadsheet environments (Google Sheets preferred).
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of influencing decisions and building alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.
• A structured, self-directed, detail-oriented builder and problem solver who can design a process where none exists, run it, and improve it over time without being managed toward it.
• A bias for simplifying and automating processes and passion for building an AI-native finance function.
• Degree in finance, economics, accounting, STEM, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice To Haves

• Accounting background or CPA, particularly if you have experience partnering closely with a Controller on close processes, revenue recognition, or audit prep.
• Fluency in SaaS and ARR-based business models: (e.g., able to build a bottoms-up ARR bridge, decompose NRR into its drivers, and explain unit economics).
• Proficiency in BI and data tools such as Hex, Tableau, Looker, and SQL, with the ability to pull and validate data independently.

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive our corporate financial planning processes end-to-end, including long range planning, annual planning, and rolling forecasts.
• Own the monthly and quarterly close cycle from an FP&A perspective, including budget vs. actuals, variance commentary, management reporting packages, and board and investor reporting materials.
• Define and track the KPIs that reflect business health, surfacing risks and opportunities proactively.
• Drive progress toward always-on reporting.
• Drive and evolve our FP&A toolset, including modern planning software, BI integrations, and the underlying data model that supports scalable reporting.
• Build and document repeatable processes, templates, and operating cadences that will scale as we grow.
• Drive cross-functional alignment on goals, building stakeholder buy-in, and enabling effective decision-making and execution across the organization.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure the integrity of actuals flowing into FP&A models.
• Deliver actionable performance insights by identifying key business drivers, opportunities, and risks, and translating them into recommendations that improve efficiency, productivity, and execution.

Benefits

• Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
• Parental leave
• Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
• Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
• Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
• Free alphorn lessons

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed