Manager, FP&A

Location: New York

Reports to: Jessica Soule (Director, FP&A)

About AlphaSense

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.

Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with over 1,500 people across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. Come Join Us!

About The Team

The FP&A team partners with executive team members across the company to provide timely, fact-based, data-driven decision support to help drive critical business decisions. The team drives annual planning, owns the operating plan and long-term financial model, and is responsible for both internal and external / Board reporting.

About The Role

In this highly visible role, you will work closely with R&D leaders to forecast and analyze expense metrics, influence resource allocation, and support strategic investment decisions across the business. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and communication skills and will take a data-driven approach to influencing business decisions. You will combine your financial modeling skills with knowledge of the business to become a trusted business partner to our R&D organizations.

Who You Are

• BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics or relevant degree. MBA or relevant certification (e.g. CFA/CPA) is a plus.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in FP&A
• An understanding of the SaaS GTM engine and the KPIs used to measure success
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Capable of communicating complex financial information in an easy-to-understand format
• Strong business partnership experience, with the desire to work cross functionally to drive alignment across the business
• Expert financial modeling skills
• Entrepreneurial self-starter, comfortable with high level of ownership
• Experience with Adaptive Insights, Salesforce, Intacct, and visualization tools (Tableau) a plus
  
  

What You’ll Do

• Lead all forecasting, budgeting, and reporting processes for the R&D organizations
• Own and maintain models for royalty payments and other COGS processes
• Partner cross-functionally to help budget holders understand how they are spending relative to targets; answer important questions about resource allocation, trade-offs, and more
• Develop reporting around critical business metrics, including efficiency, capitalization and ROI analysis on new products
• Assist in the preparation of quarterly financial materials, including internal, Board, and investor reporting packages, with a focus on strategic insights and story-telling
• Contribute to overall improvements across FP&A processes as we drive towards IPO readiness
  
  

AlphaSense is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

Base Compensation Range*: $145,000-160,000

Additional Components: You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

• For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all US-based roles based on function, level and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.