Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Atlanta, Indiana - Indianapolis, GA

Salesforce is seeking a Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis to serve as a strategic partner to the EVP of Software Engineering. This role will focus on financial control, strategic decision support, and custom unit-economic analyses related to infrastructure spend, engineering efficiency, and margin impact. The position involves developing financial frameworks, collaborating with various teams (Product Engineering, Back-End Finance, Procurement, FinOps), and driving improvements in performance analysis and visualization.

What you'd actually do

  1. Finance Business Partner (FBP) to the EVP of Software Engineering and team, acting as a strategic advisor on infrastructure spend, engineering efficiency, and margin impact.
  2. Partner across Product Engineering and Back-End Finance functions to deliver timely, insightful information into core infrastructure performance and roadmap execution for the global transition to Hyperforce.
  3. Develop and own a consistent framework for assessing product performance with a specific focus on AWS costing, metric analysis, and unit economics across the core product portfolio.
  4. Establish a network of subject matter experts from across the company, earning trust and gaining an understanding of relevant drivers to uplevel findings into executive-ready presentations and strategic recommendations.
  5. Lead collaboration with Procurement teams to influence supplier strategy and ensure spend forecasts are aligned with technical scaling requirements and engineering roadmaps.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent relevant experience
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in finance, consulting, or analytics
  • Proven track record of leading complex financial workstreams and driving professional growth within a high-scale environment.
  • Extensive financial modeling expertise, with the ability to manipulate large datasets to extract unit economic trends and cloud cost efficiencies.
  • Proficiency with financial systems; in particular enterprise-grade ERP, Planning & Analysis, and BI systems (e.g., Tableau, Oracle).
  • Superior communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to up level complex data into concise, actionable insights for EVP and C-Suite audiences.
  • Strong business judgment and executive communication skills with the ability to communicate risks and opportunities while driving alignment across diverse stakeholders.
  • Intellectual curiosity and a proactive mindset toward solving the unique financial challenges of scaling to Hyperforce.

What the JD emphasized

  • strategic partner
  • strategic advisor
  • strategic decision support
  • strategic narratives
  • strategic recommendations
  • strategic scaling requirements
  • strategic challenges