Strategic Finance - R&D/G&A

San Francisco New York Ny Portland Or Or Within Canada Or United States, United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

Own the financial relationship with our Engineering, Product, Design, HR, Legal, and Finance teams.
Own headcount and operating expense planning for your orgs.
Build and maintain the bottoms-up models that drive our R&D and G&A cost bases—headcount by team, vendor spend, allocated infrastructure costs, and discretionary budgets—and keep them current as plans evolve.
Support strategic resource allocation decisions.
Drive the annual planning and ongoing forecasting cycles for your orgs.
Build trust quickly with non-finance partners. You’re comfortable walking into a room full of engineers or lawyers and asking the questions that get you to the real answer.

experience in investment banking, strategic finance, or consulting—ideally with some exposure to technology companies or organizations where headcount is the primary cost driver.
Are comfortable pulling and working with data independently—SQL, BI tools, or FP&A platforms—to support your own analysis without relying on a data team.

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry.
New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $142,900 - $160,700
US employees outside of the New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle or the San Francisco Bay Area: $128,600 - $144,600
Canadian employees (any location): CAD 135,000 - 151,900

“The most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable—but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.” — W. Edwards Deming
That tension is at the heart of G&A and R&D finance.
How do you measure the value of a great legal team before you need them? How do you quantify the compounding returns of an engineering platform investment? How do you build a financial plan around organizations whose most important outputs resist clean quantification?
for startups and ambitious companies—and doing it with a product and engineering organization that moves fast.
As we scale, we need a finance partner who can go deep with our G&A and R&D teams: someone who understands how headcount plans become roadmaps, how infrastructure costs relate to product bets, and how to bring financial rigor to organizations that don’t think in quarters.
You’ll be embedded with our Engineering, Product, Design, and G&A leadership, helping them plan, allocate, and make decisions with confidence. What You’ll Do:
Be the dedicated finance partner to R&D and G&A leadership.
Understand their priorities deeply enough to anticipate their questions before they ask them.
Help R&D leaders think through build vs. buy tradeoffs, team sizing decisions, and investment prioritization.
Help G&A leaders evaluate vendor contracts, assess functional scaling ratios, and manage cost efficiency as the company grows.