Senior Manager, FP&A – Mexico COE

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:

Delinea is investing in building a Mexico-based FP&A Center of Excellence and were looking for a Senior Manager to lead it. As the founding leader of this function you will build and run Delineas company-wide headcount and expense reporting operations establishing a scalable automation-first FP&A hub that delivers high-quality financial intelligence to business leaders across Product G&A and GTM.

Reporting to the Senior Director Finance you will own end-to-end headcount planning company-wide expense budget vs. actual analysis and the data governance and process infrastructure that underpins Delineas financial reporting. Over time you will recruit and develop a small team of Mexico-based analysts setting the standard for rigor quality and continuous improvement in everything the CoE produces.

This is a high-ownership highly visible role for someone who brings deep FP&A expertise a builders mindset and genuine enthusiasm for leveraging AI and automation to drive scale. If youre energized by the opportunity to build something from the ground up and to leave your fingerprints on how a finance organization operates at IPO scale this role is for you.

This role will work hybrid (Tuesday Wednesday Thursday) in our Mexico City - Reforma location.

What Youll Do:

Headcount Planning & Reporting

• Own the end-to-end headcount planning process: annual budget quarterly re-forecasts and monthly actuals covering all cost centers across the company.

• Consolidate and publish monthly quarterly and annual headcount reports integrating data across HR and financial planning systems maintaining a single auditable source of truth.

• Partner with HR and business leaders to align workforce plans with strategic and financial constraints tracking hiring against budget and flagging risks proactively.

• Monitor headcount cost-to-revenue ratios and model the P&L impact of hiring decisions scenario changes and timing shifts.

• Deliver timely high-quality HC insights to operational leaders across Product G&A and GTM so they can make informed workforce decisions.

Expense Budget vs. Actual Analysis

• Own company-wide spend planning and reporting across all cost centers producing accurate and timely budget vs. actual analyses each period.

• Partner with each FP&A pillar (Product G&A GTM) to deliver expense deliverables and variance commentary that enable faster business decisions.

• Identify and clearly communicate spending variances trends and root causes to FP&A leadership and operational partners.

• Maintain and improve the expense reporting infrastructure driving model accuracy automation and faster close cycles.

• Support Corporate FP&A on consolidated HC and spend views that feed the overall P&L and financial statements.

Data Integrity Controls & Process Excellence

• Ensure data integrity and governance across HR and financial planning system integrations for all HC and spend data owning data quality end-to-end.

• Build and maintain audit-ready workflows for every CoE process with clear controls documentation aligned to IPO-readiness standards.

• Develop SOPs and playbooks for every HC and spend process so that operations are standardized transferable and resilient to team changes.

• Identify and lead opportunities to automate repetitive workflows leveraging AI tools planning system automation and scripting to reduce manual effort and increase throughput across the CoE.

• Actively apply AI tools (e.g. Claude Copilot ChatGPT) as a practitioner using them to accelerate analysis improve output quality draft variance commentary and streamline reporting processes.

• Champion a culture of continuous process improvement: always asking how the CoE can deliver the same or better output with less manual effort.

Team Leadership & CoE Development

• Recruit onboard and develop a small team of Mexico-based FP&A analysts with structured 30/60/90-day plans focused on HC and spend operations.

• Create clear career paths and growth tracks for CoE team members establishing a culture of rigor ownership and accountability.

• Build bench depth through cross-training and documented backups for every HC and spend process ensuring resilience and no single point of failure.

• Set a high bar for quality: implement quality gates on every deliverable before it leaves the CoE ensuring outputs are accurate clear and decision-ready.

What Youll Bring:

Experience

• 8 years of progressive FP&A experience with a focus on headcount planning and/or expense management in a global company (technology company preferred).

• 3 years of direct people management experience with a demonstrated ability to develop analysts and build high-performing teams.

• Experience owning FP&A processes end-to-end planning reporting variance analysis and close support across multiple cost centers simultaneously.

• Track record of building or improving FP&A processes SOPs and financial controls ideally in a high-growth IPO-preparing or public-company environment.

• Experience working closely with HR on headcount planning and workforce data including familiarity with HRIS and financial planning system integrations.

Skills & Capabilities

• Strong financial modeling capability; advanced Excel proficiency required.

• Exceptional attention to detail and a quality-first mindset you take pride in delivering outputs that are accurate clear and audit-ready.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish; comfortable presenting findings to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.

• Highly analytical problem-solver: comfortable handling large datasets identifying trends and translating numbers into clear actionable narratives.

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

• Builders mindset: energized by creating structure documenting processes and scaling operations not just maintaining them.

• Collaborative and low-ego working style; able to build trust across Finance HR and operational partners across multiple time zones.

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

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Workday (HRIS) and Adaptive Insights including familiarity with HC-to-finance data flows and integration governance.

• Familiarity with data and BI tools (e.g. Power BI) and/or basic SQL for querying financial or headcount data.

• Experience supporting or preparing for an IPO audit process or SOX compliance environment.

• Exposure to AI-driven process automation RPA tools or scripting (Python VBA) in a finance context.

Education

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

• MBA CPA CPC 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:

Senior Manager