finance
Posted 4 days agoFP&A Manager, R&D
at GitLab
CanadaRemote
Responsibilities
- Manage headcount planning, tracking, and reporting across supported organizations.
- Manage vendor and program spend through forecasting, analysis, and decision support.
- Coordinate monthly forecast cycles and annual planning for Product and Engineering, improving financial processes and policies with minimal guidance.
- Drive complex projects that improve data-driven decision-making and operating efficiency.
- Prioritize with limited direction and coordinate large, complex projects that improve GitLab’s ability to make evidence-based choices or operate more efficiently.
- Collaborate with cloud hosting finance, mentor finance team members, and use AI, spreadsheets, and data tools to deliver accurate, timely analysis.
- Navigate complex or challenging stakeholder conversations by evaluating financial trade-offs and communicating clear recommendations.
Requirements
- GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps.
- The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact.
- Experience as a finance business partner supporting a business function, including headcount management, vendor spend, forecasting, variance analysis, and annual planning; candidates may have gained this
- experience through a range of backgrounds.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial information into clear narratives and influence executives, vice presidents, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Advanced financial modeling skills, including the ability to quickly build complex models from scratch using Excel or Google Sheets for new and ambiguous business questions.
- Ability to prioritize with limited direction and guide complex projects while managing changing priorities.
- Experience with Adaptive Planning or NetSuite, exposure to cloud hosting or infrastructure spend, and ability to learn and use GitLab are helpful but not required. About the team
- We operate in GitLab’s all-remote, asynchronous environment and value clear communication, ownership, mentorship, and the ability to make complex information useful.
- Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation , please let us know during the recruiting process .
Benefits
- The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only.
- This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits.
- benefits and equity . Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
- United States Salary Range $115,200 — $194,400 USD How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees •
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Additional details
- More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100
- trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
- GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued.
- Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.
- Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
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- Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025.
- Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.
- As a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, R&D, you’ll serve as a senior contributor on GitLab’s FP&A team.
- Reporting to the Director of FP&A, you’ll provide timely support grounded in facts and data for critical choices.