Strategic Finance Business Partner - Product and Engineering

Summary:

We're looking for a talented Strategic Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team. The Finance team at Anaconda turns financial insights into strategic clarity, enabling data-driven decisions across the business while ensuring responsible stewardship of resources. We partner with leaders across the company to translate business objectives into financial models, drive profitable growth, and build sustainable operations that advance our mission to transform the world with open source.

As a Strategic Finance Business Partner supporting our Product & Engineering (P&E) organization, you'll work directly with our Chief Product & Technology Officer and P&E leadership team to manage the P&E P&L and navigate the ambiguous nature of engineering spend. Unlike revenue-generating functions where impact is directly measurable, you'll help leadership make complex trade-off decisions on investments without clear ROI benchmarks: balancing innovation, technical debt, infrastructure costs, and platform capabilities that enable our entire business. You'll bring structure to uncertainty and can work within the grey, translating technical complexity into financial clarity. This is an excellent opportunity for you to leverage your experience and skills and apply it to the world of data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

What You'll Do:

• Partner with P&E leadership to manage the department P&L, translating technical initiatives and infrastructure needs into clear financial frameworks that inform resource allocation and investment decisions across product development, engineering operations, and platform infrastructure
• Build financial models and business cases that evaluate competing P&E investments (ie. new platform capabilities, DevOps tooling, infrastructure optimization, technical debt reduction) and provide clear trade-off analysis when ROI metrics don't exist
• Work closely with Engineering leaders to interpret complex cost dashboards, validate technical cost analyses, and translate infrastructure spending patterns into business context that executive leadership can act on
• Deliver monthly and quarterly expense analysis to identify cost trends, investigate variances, and diagnose root causes of budget overruns across engineering tooling and cloud infrastructure spend, then partner with technical leaders to develop corrective actions
• Lead the annual planning and quarterly forecasting process for P&E, collaborating transparently with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to align budgets with strategic priorities
• Apply AI tools to accelerate scenario modeling, automate variance analysis, and extract insights from complex cost datasets, enabling faster and more accurate financial recommendations
• Design and maintain reporting frameworks that give P&E leaders visibility into cost drivers, burn rates, headcount productivity, and project spending to enable faster, data-informed decision-making
• Help guide headcount planning decisions in partnership with the P&E leaders and the greater People organization
• Provide financial guidance on build-vs-buy decisions, vendor negotiations, infrastructure capacity planning, and technical experiments that balance performance with cost efficiency

Your Impact Will Be Measured Through:

• Quality and timeliness of financial insights that enable P&E leadership to make confident decisions under ambiguity
• Effectiveness in managing P&E expense trends and identifying cost optimization opportunities without sacrificing technical capabilities
• Accuracy of forecasts and budget management across engineering, product, and infrastructure spend

What You Need:

• 5+ years of progressive finance experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or finance business partnering roles
• Demonstrated experience supporting Product & Engineering or similar technical functions in a SaaS, DevOps, or technology company, bringing familiarity with how engineering organizations operate and spend
• Proven ability to operate in ambiguous environments where clear success metrics don't exist, bringing structure and frameworks to help leaders make complex trade-off decisions
• Balance of strategic and tactical capabilities - comfortable rolling up sleeves to build systems and processes while maintaining strategic perspective
• Strong proficiency with financial modeling, variance analysis, and building executive-ready presentations that translate technical complexity into actionable financial recommendations
• Experience with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, Adaptive Insights, Planful), business intelligence platforms (e.g. Tableau, Looker, PowerBI), and cloud cost management tools (e.g. Vantage, AWS Cost Explorer)
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets proficiency for financial modeling, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and scenario analysis
• Comfort using AI tools to accelerate financial analysis workflows, with the judgment to validate outputs and maintain accuracy while improving efficiency
• Track record of building trusted partnerships with senior technical leaders and influencing decisions through data-driven storytelling
• Executive presence and credibility to hold your own in challenging conversations with senior leadership
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field
• You embody our values of Clarity, Care and Candor
• You care deeply about fostering an environment where people of all backgrounds and experiences can flourish

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• MBA, CPA, CFA, or other advanced finance credential
• Experience scaling finance operations through periods of rapid growth or significant business transformation
• Prior experience as a Finance Business Partner supporting Product & Engineering organizations, with an understanding of engineering cost structures and technical trade-offs
• Deep understanding of SaaS unit economics and cloud infrastructure cost modeling, with experience using cloud cost management platforms (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, CloudHealth, Vantage)
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, or R for data analysis and financial modeling automation 
• Familiarity with Anaconda products 
• Experience applying AI-powered analytics tools to financial forecasting, anomaly detection, or cost optimization workflows
• Background as a software engineer or technical professional who transitioned into finance
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment
• Experience working in an open-source, AI, or data science-oriented company

Why You'll Like Working Here:

• You'll thrive in a high-performance environment where results are recognized and rewarded
• Your work directly contributes to shaping the future of data science, machine learning, and AI in the enterprise
• You'll work alongside a collaborative team that values diverse, thoughtful discussion, clarity and candor
• You'll be supported by a culture that puts employees first - with flexible hours, a fully remote setup, and a genuine commitment to your wellbeing and growth

The application deadline for this role is 08/05/2026; applicants will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the role is filled.

The base salary range for this role is $120,000 - $184,000 USD, along with annual bonus potential, equity participation, and benefits.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by various factors, including work location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter will provide more specific details on the salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

In addition to base salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Flexible Vacation Policy
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Monthly Wellness Stipend
• Employee Assistance Program and Mental Health Resources

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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