Finance Manager (Corporate Finance)

<p><strong>About the Team</strong></p> <p>Netlify’s Finance team builds the financial foundation that helps the company plan, operate, and make informed decisions. The team owns our operating model, management reporting, budgeting and planning, and the company-level metrics leadership uses to understand performance and make tradeoffs.</p> <p>As Finance Manager, you’ll own the core corporate finance cycle - from monthly reporting and forecasting to planning, scenario analysis, and KPI reporting - and help shape how those processes evolve as Netlify scales. This is a hands-on role with meaningful room to improve how the function operates: strengthening the models and insights behind business decisions while using AI, automation, and better tooling to make Finance faster, more scalable, and less dependent on manual work.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Drive the monthly reporting cadence: updating operating models, variance analysis, and the management reporting package, with actionable insights for leadership</li> <li>Take full responsibility for the 3-statement operating model and driver-based forecast, including structural changes to how the model is built as our business scales</li> <li>Help drive the annual planning process, including planning templates, scenario models, and turning strategic priorities into the assumptions and targets the plan is built on&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> <li>Build and maintain the company-level KPI and metrics layer, including ARR, NRR, gross margin, CAC payback, and Rule of 40, and explain what moved and why each month</li> <li>Build the scenario and sensitivity models leadership uses to make capital and headcount decisions</li> <li>Own department-level budget tracking, and serve as the standing point of contact for department leaders on budget, headcount, and software spend</li> <li>Automate manual work across the close and forecast cycles using AI and better tooling, with measurable reduction in cycle time</li> <li>Opportunity to partner with GTM leadership on sales planning and KPI tracking</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You'll Bring</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years in FP&amp;A or strategic finance, including several at a SaaS or usage-based business. An investment banking, consulting or private equity background preferred; but strong modeling skills, ability to develop frameworks to solve complex problems and ability to run scenarios is a must</li> <li>A history of building 3-statement models from scratch, with scenario and sensitivity analysis, and of making structural changes to a model rather than only updating inputs</li> <li>Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and core accounting principles</li> <li>Advanced Google Sheets or Excel, and comfort with large datasets</li> <li>Deep command of SaaS metrics and their drivers, with a point of view on which ones actually matter at our stage</li> <li>Understanding of how financial data flows and experience reconciling systems</li> <li>Working knowledge of SQL</li> <li>Comfort operating in ambiguity and defining your own approach to problems that arrive without a defined scope</li> <li>Experience as the finance point of contact for non-finance leaders, and the ability to make financial concepts clear to people who don't speak finance</li> <li>Hands-on experience building AI workflows for finance work, including validating AI output and understanding where AI fails</li> <li>Deep curiosity about our business, product, customers, competitors and industry trends</li> </ul> <p><strong>This Role Is a Great Fit If</strong></p> <ul> <li>You want to own a function, not contribute to one. The monthly close, the operating model, and the planning cycle would be yours to run and to redesign.</li> <li>You're comfortable being the only person on this work. There is no junior analyst supporting the role and no plan to add one. You will build it and run it yourself.</li> <li>You take quality seriously. You know the difference between a variance explanation that's technically accurate and one that's actually useful to a business leader, and you hold yourself to the latter.</li> <li>You notice when something is slower or more manual than it needs to be, and you fix it without being asked.</li> <li>You feel confident communicating directly with department leaders about budget and headcount.&nbsp;</li> <li>You're excited to build. The tooling, the reporting layer, and the automation work are all genuinely open, and there is room to make this function structurally be