Corporate/Opex Finance Manager

About the role

The position builds the systems and reporting rigor that support public-company scale operations. You will work remotely across the U.S. with flexibility to locate from our Oakland office.

Finance teams manage money, forecasts, and reporting. Analysts build models and explain variance. Controllers run accounting and compliance. FP&A professionals support decisions with budgets and forecasts. The work is precise, deadline driven, and tied to business results. Finance teams follow tight calendars, with monthly closes and annual planning cycles. Accuracy and auditability are expected on every deliverable.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Own the end-to-end operating expense forecasting and management for your function, building and maintaining the monthly forecast for areas such as Engineering or G&A opex.
• Bring solutions and options to leaders rather than only presenting numbers, and know when a question requires an Accounting partner.
• Own the full reporting workflow for your workstream, including model templates and dashboards, and automate recurring manual steps as they are identified.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, Math, or similar.
• Bring a minimum of 8 years of progressive FP&A experience, ideally including time at a scaled operating or public company.
• Demonstrate solid GAAP fluency, especially with capitalized expenses, amortization, and cash versus accrual accounting.
• Show a first reaction to manual work by seeking automation through systems, dashboards, and model templates.
• Act as a genuine business partner to a functional leader, asking strong questions and being trusted for usefulness.
• Communicate clearly and confidently in writing and in person with senior leaders, using plain and direct language.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in payments, fintech, or scaled SaaS.
• Exposure to public-company boards or investor-facing materials.
• Hands-on experience with BI or analytics platforms such as Sigma, Looker, or Tableau.
• History of owning headcount or vendor-spend forecasting for a functional client group.
• Experience building AI-powered workflows, tools, or automations for finance work.

Practical notes

or from the Oakland office. Typical interview steps

Finance interviews usually include technical questions on accounting or modeling, a case study, and behavioral rounds. Candidates may be asked to build a forecast or explain a variance. Spreadsheet skills are tested in most loops. Accuracy and clear explanations matter. Interviewers may give a real dataset and ask for a quick analysis. Showing your work and explaining assumptions matters as much as the final number.

Good to know

Finance professionals use GAAP to align spend tracking and reporting standards across teams. FP&A teams build models, dashboards, and forecasts to guide strategic decisions. Automation in finance reduces manual work and improves data reliability. Business partners work inside product and operational teams to align budgets with execution. Public-company reporting introduces board-level scrutiny and more rigorous controls. Modern finance teams increasingly use AI tools to accelerate analysis and modeling.

Questions to ask

Good questions to ask the employer in the interview: what does success look like in the first six months, how is the team structured, what is the current biggest challenge, and how are decisions made. Asking about growth paths and the review process is also well received. Employers expect questions, and good ones show preparation.

Career growth

Finance careers move from analyst to senior analyst, manager, and controller or FP&A director levels. Some people earn certifications such as CPA or CFA. Cross-functional work with operations and leadership grows with seniority. Finance careers reward precision early and business partnership later. Learning the operations of the company beyond the numbers accelerates growth.