FP&A Manager

Smartling

2h•$120,000 - $140,000•Remote

About The Position

Smartling was founded 16 years ago to make localization and translation seamless. Today, Smartling is profitable and backed by Battery Ventures, a global technology-focused investment firm, supporting company growth and expanding our market share and leadership position. We are the only cloud-based, AI-enabled translation platform that combines a Neural Machine Translation Hub and professional language services, empowering teams to collaborate in real-time to create experiences customers love. We are seeking an FP&A Manager to partner closely with Finance, Marketing, Sales Operations, and Product teams to drive data-backed decision-making across customer acquisition and growth. This role is responsible for architecting scalable reporting and dashboards that clearly attribute marketing investment to pipeline creation, customer acquisition, and ARR. The ideal candidate is not just a financial analyst, but a systems thinker—someone who can design clean data models in Looker or similar BI platforms, translate funnel metrics into financial outcomes, and present insights in a way that executives trust and base their operational and financial decisions.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, or Analytics at a SaaS or subscription-based company
Demonstrated experience building reports and dashboards in Looker (or similar BI platforms such as Tableau, Power BI)
Strong understanding of SaaS GTM metrics (CAC, LTV, payback, Pipeline coverage, Conversion rates and velocity, Quota attainment and sales performance by AE and BDR
Hands-on experience working with CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce), Marketing automation platforms (e.g., HubSpot, Apollo)
Ability to translate complex analytics into clear executive narratives
Experience designing or implementing multi-touch attribution models
Experience supporting PE-backed or high-growth SaaS companies
Familiarity with board-level reporting and QoE-style analysis
Exposure to data modeling or SQL (not required to be a data engineer)

Responsibilities

Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning with a strong GTM lens
Own acquisition-related financial models (CAC, cohort analysis, channel mix)
Prepare analyses for Executive leadership (board materials, investor diligence)
Continuously improve forecasting accuracy by incorporating funnel dynamics
Build and maintain Looker models (LookML) or equivalent semantic layers in other BI tools
Translate raw data into finance-grade metrics suitable for board and investor reporting
Design and own executive dashboards monitoring that should be self-service and have early-warning indicators
Architect and maintain multi-touch attribution models to evaluate marketing ROI across channels
Partner with Marketing and Sales Ops to define source of truth for leads, opportunities, and customers, as well as reconcile marketing performance metrics with financial outcomes