Strategic Finance Manager, R&D

TRM Labs

12h • Remote

About The Position

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks. Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to make the world safer and more secure. TRM’s Strategic Finance team is the financial engine room for how the company invests in building its products, and this role is the dedicated finance partner for that R&D investment. You will own the modeling of R&D spend, from cloud infrastructure to AI and compute costs to engineering headcount, and translate it into decisions that keep R&D scaling efficiently relative to revenue. Because TRM’s product is built on heavy cloud and AI infrastructure, this seat sits at the center of one of the company’s fastest-growing and most consequential cost centers.

Requirements

• 5 to 8 years across investment banking, investing, consulting, or finance at a high-growth technology company, with a track record of owning monthly, quarterly, and annual planning and reporting cycles end-to-end with limited guidance
• Hands-on fluency using AI tools in real finance work: you have used tools like Claude or ChatGPT to accelerate modeling and analysis, and can judge when to trust their output and when to override it
• Expert-level Excel and Google Sheets modeling, plus experience building scalable, AI-assisted or agentic engines (for example in Pigment) that turn one-off analysis into repeatable reporting
• Experience supporting technical or product organizations (Engineering, Product, Data Science, or Infrastructure) is strongly preferred, including partnering with them to bring structure and AI-driven analysis to fast-growing cloud and compute costs

Responsibilities

• Keep R&D spend scaling efficiently against revenue by owning the cloud infrastructure and AI/compute cost models, using BigQuery and AI-assisted analysis to turn raw billing data into variance readouts leadership can act on within days of month-end
• Give the CTO and engineering leaders a live view of headcount capacity by building scenario models in Pigment and TRM’s Claude-powered scenario engine, so hiring ramps can be compared and decided in hours rather than reworked over days
• Reduce the time R&D finance reporting takes to produce by extending TRM’s board-deck automation, which refreshes executive and board materials directly from governed named ranges, so you spend your time on analysis instead of assembly
• Partner with the Head of AI to optimize AI and infrastructure spend, surfacing the build-vs-buy and efficiency opportunities that protect margins as usage grows
• Partner cross-functionally with the CTO, engineering and infrastructure leaders, Recruiting, and Accounting, acting as the finance point of contact for everything R&D

What This Job Offers

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