Senior FP&A Manager

About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent centralized authorization empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence Delineas leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle across cloud and traditional infrastructure data SaaS applications and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities including workforce IT administrator developers and machines assign appropriate access levels detect irregularities and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks not months 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor and a 99.995% uptime Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on LinkedIn X and YouTube.

Join our passionate global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership outstanding engineers and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity innovation and a culture of respect and fairness. If youre ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security we want to hear from you.

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Summary:

We are looking for a Senior FP&A Manager to join our Finance team as a key business partner supporting Delineas R&D organization and Chief Product Officer (CPO). This is a high-impact highly visible role on a lean collaborative finance team youll sit at the intersection of Finance and Product supporting financial planning forecasting and strategic decision-making across our product and platform roadmap.

Reporting to the Senior Director Finance you will work closely alongside senior Finance leadership to support the R&D business partnership. Youll own critical workstreams end-to-end building models driving forecast processes and delivering executive-ready analyses while partnering with senior Finance leadership on the broader CPO/R&D relationship. Youll operate with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for your work and youll have real opportunities to shape how Finance is perceived as a strategic partner across the organization. This role requires an independent self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced high-growth SaaS environment and is energized by turning ambiguity into clarity and data into decisions.

What Youll Do

Business Partnership & Strategic Finance

• Support the Senior Director Finance in the strategic finance partnership with the CPO and R&D leadership team (Engineering Product and Design) providing financial guidance and thought partnership across investment decisions headcount planning and operational priorities.

• Own assigned workstreams within the R&D business partnership end-to-end operating with a high degree of independence and accountability for quality accuracy and timeliness of deliverables.

• Proactively surface financial insights risks and opportunities bringing analysis and recommendations forward before being asked and enabling faster and better decisions across the R&D organization.

• Prepare high-quality materials for leadership and executive reviews translating complex financial and operational information into clear concise and persuasive narratives.

• Evaluate ROI and financial discipline on strategic initiatives partnering with R&D leadership to assess returns and track KPIs proactively flagging risks and recommending course corrections.

• Support Pricing & Packaging initiatives with financial modeling and analysis related to solution pricing strategy packaging tradeoffs and go-to-market economics serving as a key finance resource for pricing decisions without directly owning the function.

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Own and lead the annual operating plan (AOP) and monthly/quarterly forecast processes for the R&D organization establishing a predictable financial cadence and alignment with company-wide objectives.

• Build and maintain financial models to evaluate strategic investment opportunities including vendor and tooling decisions infrastructure spend and build-vs-buy analyses.

• Lead R&D headcount planning and budgeting cycles ensuring human capital and resource investments align with product strategy and business growth goals.

• Drive rigorous month-over-month and quarter-over-quarter variance analyses (actuals vs. plan/forecast) implementing proactive strategies to optimize operational expenses.

• Own and maintain the cloud hosting cost forecast in close partnership with the Cloud Engineering team tracking spend drivers surfacing cost trends and anomalies and proactively flagging risks or inefficiencies that could drive costs up enabling the team to take action before issues materialize.

Reporting Performance & Insights

• Develop and refine scalable reporting and analytical frameworks to improve financial transparency and decision velocity across Engineering Product and Finance leadership.

• Deliver monthly and quarterly quantitative and qualitative financial analyses with clear variance commentary highlighting key issues risks and actionable insights for senior stakeholders.

• Partner closely with Accounting to ensure accurate and timely close reporting providing variance narratives and translating results into strategic recommendations.

Process Improvement & Systems

• Identify and lead opportunities to enhance financial planning processes systems and controls leveraging AI and automation to streamline workflows and strengthen forecasting accuracy.

• Contribute to FP&A-wide process improvements as Delinea scales its financial infrastructure including adoption of planning and reporting tools.

• Champion data-driven decision-making and analytical rigor across Finance and the R&D organization.

What Youll Bring:

Experience

• 8 years of progressive experience in FP&A Strategic Finance investment banking accounting or a related field with clear evidence of career progression.

• Direct experience supporting technical or R&D organizations (Engineering Product Design) strongly preferred.

• Prior experience at a high-growth SaaS company strongly preferred; familiarity with SaaS metrics (ARR GRR NRR Bookings Renewals CLV) is a strong plus.

• Experience with financial planning cycles (AOP quarterly forecasting monthly close) and headcount management in a complex matrixed environment.

• Exposure to pricing and packaging strategy at a SaaS company experience building financial models to evaluate pricing tiers packaging bundles or monetization tradeoffs is a strong plus.

Skills & Capabilities

• Strong financial modeling capability; advanced Excel proficiency required.

• Exceptional communication and executive presence you can influence senior leaders through concise structured storytelling and clear financial recommendations.

• Highly analytical problem-solver: comfortable handling ambiguity connecting financial outcomes to operational drivers and delivering actionable insights from large datasets.

• Collaborative and low-ego working style; able to build trust and work effectively with cross-functional partners including Engineering Product Accounting and Procurement.

• Strong attention to detail ownership mindset and ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment with minimal oversight.

• Active user of AI tools (e.g. Claude ChatGPT Copilot) to accelerate analysis automate routine tasks and improve the quality and speed of financial deliverables. We expect this person to be a practitioner not just curious about AI but actively applying it as part of their daily workflow.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with financial planning and reporting systems (e.g. Workday Adaptive).

• Experience with ERP or accounting systems (e.g. NetSuite) and close partnering with Accounting for month-end.

• Familiarity with data and BI tools (e.g. Power BI) and/or basic SQL skills.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics Business or a related field required.

• MBA CPA or equivalent advanced degree a plus.

Why work at Delinea

• Were passionate problem-solvers helping the worlds largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.

• We invest in people who are smart self-motivated and collaborative.

• What we offer in return is meaningful work a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do

• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments

• Respect - We listen value different perspectives and work as one team

• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through

• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment

• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions and our process for hiring evaluating and promoting employees helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries a meaningful bonus program and excellent benefits including healthcare insurance as well as pension/retirement matching comprehensive life insurance an employee assistance program time off plans and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check verification of education and verification of employment per employment addition all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.

Required Experience:

Manager