Senior Finance Business Partner, International
San Mateo, CA - USA
Job Summary
Every day tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore create play learn and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox were building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together from anywhere in the world and on any device. Were on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means youll be working to shape the future of human interaction solving unique technical challenges at scale and helping to create safer more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As the Finance Business Partner for International you will own end-to-end financial support for Robloxs expansion across non-US/CA regions from annual planning to in-year forecasting and performance management. Youll translate International and regional strategies into headcount and OpEx plans (BvA re-forecasts risks and opportunities) and guide trade-offs with International and Finance leadership. Youll be the operational go-to for the new International regional groupssupporting workflows such as entity creation headcount management T&E and PO trackingwhile building clear reporting so leaders can see spend hiring progress and budget headroom by region and function. Finally youll partner cross-functionally with Legal Tax Accounting Marketing Comms DevRel.
You Will:
- Business Partnership: Act as primary finance partner to International leadership and regional Heads of ensuring alignment between International strategy functional input (Marketing Comms Public Affairs DevRel Legal etc.) and Robloxs broader financial objectives.
- Planning and Forecasting: Own annual and in-year (monthly and quarterly) opex planning for International across all non-US/CA regions partnering with International GMs (regional) and International Core Leadership team (HQ) to translate strategies into budgets and narratives for leadership and Finance.
- Support International strategy: Partner with International leadership and regional heads to translate market strategies (entry growth and regulatory requirements) into clear financial plans and scenarios highlighting trade-offs ROI and funding options across regions and functions.
- Budget Execution and Management: Manage the International Group (BvA reforecasts risk/opportunity) support in-budget and out-of-budget decisions and guide leadership and Finance as spend and priorities evolve.
- Reporting: Develop and maintain region/function-level reporting and dashboards for headcount and OpEx so International and functional leaders have timely visibility into spend hiring and budget headroom. Partner with GMs DSA and other Finance teams to measure and track strategic and operational goals for each region.
- Operational Support: Be the day-to-day finance point for International on various tactical processes: headcount requests / management T&E approvals PO routing and monthly BvAs ensuring processes follow the agreed International operating principles and approval matrix. Provide operational financial analysis and decision support for entity creation offices and other regulatory/market-entry requirements working cross-functionally with Legal Finance Accounting Tax and People.
You Have:
- Bachelors degree from a top tier university; major in economics or quantitative field (math science finance/accounting) preferred or equivalent experience
- 8 years of experience in FP&A corporate finance or other strategic finance roles. Public company experience is a plus
- Strong collaboration and partnership skills; experience managing G&A functions or other functional business partnerships a plus
- Experience multiple projects and stakeholders in a cross-functional environment
- Experience developing analytical frameworks to evaluate investment decisions and communicating financial and strategic concepts to senior leadership
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail with a dedication to data integrity.
- Experience developing / automating management reports on financial and operational performance. Enthusiastic about the future of AI in Finance and interested in leveraging new tools to increase efficiency.
- Proficient with Excel and slides
- Extensive experience with Pigment or other relevant ERP solutions (e.g. Anaplan) a strong plus
- Experience with large datasets SQL Tableau and other BI tools a strong plus
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!