Senior FP&A Manager

About the role

In this role, you own the strategic financial infrastructure that underpins all major business decisions at Ambience. You are responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling the company's 2-year financial model and rolling P&L forecast to ensure alignment between operational activity and financial outcomes. You will act as the primary architect of our annual planning process, translating complex operational data from Sales, Product, and Operations into coherent, scenario-based financial narratives. You will establish and govern the monthly reporting cadence, providing rigorous forecast vs. actual analysis, cash forecasting, and deep variance commentary that highlights true business drivers. You will lead all financial preparations for board meetings and investor updates, ensuring materials are polished, accurate, and compelling for external stakeholders. You will embed directly with GTM and Product leaders to validate key assumptions, model the financial impact of strategic initiatives, and represent finance on the deal desk to safeguard margin integrity across customer contracts.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Fully own and maintain Ambience's 2-year financial model and rolling P&L forecast, including version control, updates, and internal distribution.
• Lead the annual planning process end-to-end, including bottoms-up budgeting, goal alignment with department leads, and integration into the operating model.
• Establish and run a monthly reporting cadence for forecast vs. actuals, including budget variance analysis, cash forecasting, and key variance commentary.
• Lead financial preparation for quarterly board meetings, including top-line forecast updates, performance narratives, and investor-ready materials.
• Build forecasting engines that link rep capacity, pipeline stages, and pricing into revenue forecasting, partnering with GTM and RevOps to validate assumptions.
• Represent finance at deal desk to ensure effective margin representation across customer engagements.
• Translate operational reality into forward-looking financial visibility by partnering with sales, product, and operations leaders.
• Drive automation and process discipline to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and accelerate insight generation across financial workflows.
• Own scenario and sensitivity analyses to support strategic decision-making, investment prioritization, and resource allocation.
• Ensure all modeling practices are GAAP- and audit-ready, supporting close processes and regulatory compliance where applicable.
• Establish clear documentation standards for models, assumptions, and version history to enable transparency and collaboration.
• Define and track leading and lagging indicators to surface early signals of performance against plan and adjust course proactively.

Requirements

• 6-10 years in strategic finance, FP&A, or investment banking with progression into operating roles at high-growth SaaS or technology companies.
• Direct experience owning company-wide financial models and annual planning processes, including multi-year P&L forecasting and scenario analysis.
• Strong fluency in SaaS metrics, cohort-based revenue modeling, and enterprise sales finance (pipeline conversion, rep productivity, CARR/ARR).
• Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally with GTM, Product, and G&A leaders to align financial planning with business strategy.
• Excellent executive communication: translates complex financial models into crisp, defensible insights for leadership and board audiences.
• High ownership mentality: independently manages forecast updates, builds repeatable processes, and drives automation without hand-holding.
• Proven experience working in a fast-moving, high-growth environment where priorities evolve rapidly and agility is essential.
• Strong attention to detail and rigorous analytical thinking to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability in financial outputs.
• Comfortable working autonomously with minimal supervision while maintaining strict ownership of deliverables and timelines.
• Willingness to collaborate closely with distributed teams across time zones using asynchronous communication and structured documentation.

Nice to have

• Healthcare or other regulated industry experience.
• Experience partnering closely with Accounting on GAAP revenue recognition, close processes, and audit readiness.
• Familiarity with modern planning and BI tools such as Adaptive, Pigment, Sigma, or similar.
• Experience building and maintaining CRM-driven forecasting models aligned with GTM motion.
• Background in AI or emerging technology sectors where business models evolve quickly.

Practical notes

This role is full-time and remote within the United States.