Strategic Finance, Systems & AI Innovation

Figma•San Francisco, CA

1d•$169,000 - $245,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Strategic Finance team is focused on solving some of Figma's most pressing business issues. The team is responsible for owning the company's budget, driving annual and quarterly planning processes, allocating and deploying the company's resources efficiently, performing financial analyses, and partnering with teams across the company. This role requires someone who can own and evolve the finance systems backbone at Figma and drive outsized impact as we scale toward more automated, intelligent, and AI-enabled planning. We're looking for someone who is highly analytical and strategic, a great communicator, approaches problems in a structured manner, and is comfortable with ambiguity. You'll get substantial visibility, focus on the highest-priority business issues, and be plugged into every facet of the business. This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs (SF / NY) or remotely in the United States.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Finance Systems, roadmap execution or a related function
Strong technical skills with system design & implementation, AI automation, data architecture, integrations
Working knowledge of financial processes including O2C, P2P, FP&A, Accounting Ops, and close cycles
Strong project management instincts, with ability to run multiple workstreams simultaneously
Clear, structured communicator across technical and non-technical audiences

Nice To Haves

Proficiency with SQL
Data science background
Experience managing consultants or external resources

Responsibilities

Drive the execution of transformational projects by applying their finance and systems expertise, collaborating with partners across the organization, and defining business processes that improve automation, standardization, and simplicity
Influence Figma Finance's AI adoption strategy, defining how AI can be embedded into systems and workflows as infrastructure to drive analysis, reporting, and forecast decisions and execute on adoption alongside the team
Serve as the functional and technical owner of the financial planning platform (Pigment), leading development, enhancement, training, enablement, maintenance, and administration
Own the systems roadmap end-to-end, including prioritization, resource deployment, UAT, and governance
Design and evolve a best-in-class systems architecture, optimizing data flows, integrations, and tooling with influence extending beyond Pigment and Finance data to the broader company data ecosystem
Establish strong cross-functional partnerships with Strategic Finance Data Science, Data Engineering, Accounting, and Operations to influence data architecture, design integrations and optimize business processes & sophisticated forecasting in Pigment and Agentic tooling
Develop dashboards and data visualizations to surface key KPIs and business insights
Drive best practices across systems controls, data governance, and change management frameworks