Senior Director, Corporate FP&A

Mixpanel•San Francisco, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Director, Corporate FP&A is a strategic partner to the CFO and executive team, driving scalable growth by connecting financial forecasting with data insights and operational efficiency. Reporting directly to the CFO, this role leads Mixpanel’s FP&A, decision support, and reporting functions and owns the financial narrative guiding investment, growth, and market strategy. The role partners with executive leadership, department heads, and stakeholders to develop and implement short- and long-term financial models and strategies aligned with company objectives. As a senior leader, change agent, and builder, this person will design processes and frameworks that do not yet exist or are not scalable. The role also champions AI, automation, and advanced analytics in Corporate FP&A to improve forecast accuracy, accelerate reporting, and enable higher-value strategic work.

Requirements

12 or more years of progressive finance experience, including 5 or more years in an executive leadership role within a high-growth SaaS or technology company.
Strong ability to translate business strategy into financial plans, drive forecasting rigor, and deliver actionable insights that influence executive decision-making.
Demonstrated track record of building and improving corporate planning processes, financial models, and reporting frameworks in a complex environment.
Deep understanding of financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, including driver-based and scenario modeling.
Ability to gather, manipulate, and manage large datasets from multiple sources, understand complex data relationships, and recommend a course of action based on analysis.
Direct people-management experience and a track record of hiring and developing a strong finance function.
Clear, direct communication skills, including the ability to turn complex financial analysis into actionable insights for a CFO.
Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Advanced skills in Excel or Sheets and financial modeling.
Experience with planning tools such as Pigment, Anaplan, or Adaptive.
Experience with BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker.

Responsibilities

Lead company-wide budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, aligning top-down targets with functional plans, strategic priorities, and operating accountability.
Own and continuously improve the corporate financial model, including revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, headcount, cash flow, scenario planning, and long-range projections.
Establish a disciplined rolling forecast and business review cadence, giving leaders visibility into performance, risks, opportunities, forecast accuracy, and required actions.
Develop executive, Board, investor, and lender reporting packages communicating results, business drivers, outlook, risks, and strategic tradeoffs.
Define, standardize, and govern financial and operating metrics, ensuring consistent KPI definitions, reporting integrity, and clear source-of-truth ownership.
Partner with GTM, Product, Engineering, G&A, and People leaders on resource allocation, investment decisions, hiring plans, headcount governance, and operating discipline.
Deliver deep-dive analysis on revenue drivers, expense optimization, and risk and opportunity management.
Provide financial analysis and decision support for strategic initiatives, including product launches, pricing and packaging, international expansion, business model evolution, M&A, and major investments.
Build and scale FP&A processes, systems, dashboards, automation, and self-service reporting using BI, AI, and workflow tools to improve speed, accuracy, and decision quality.
Champion an AI-first mindset within Corporate FP&A and share learnings across Finance.
Hire, manage, and develop a high-performing FP&A team, fostering rigorous analysis, business partnership, healthy challenge, and independent insight.
Contribute to global procurement strategy to optimize vendor management and drive cost efficiencies.