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About the Role

As our FP&A Lead, you'll drive the processes and frameworks that connect our financial plan to company strategy, partnering cross-functionally to drive clarity on performance, resource allocation, and long-range trajectory. This is a high-ownership IC role for a builder who is energized by ambiguity and wants their fingerprints on how a Series E AI company understands its own business.

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive corporate financial planning processes end-to-end, including long range planning, annual planning, and rolling forecasts.
• Own the monthly and quarterly close cycle from an FP&A perspective, including budget vs. actuals, variance commentary, management reporting packages, and board and investor reporting materials.
• Define and track KPIs that reflect business health, surfacing risks and opportunities proactively.
• Drive progress toward always-on reporting.
• Drive and evolve FP&A toolset, including modern planning software, BI integrations, and the underlying data model that supports scalable reporting.
• Build and document repeatable processes, templates, and operating cadences that will scale as the company grows.
• Drive cross-functional alignment on goals, building stakeholder buy-in, and enabling effective decision-making and execution across the organization.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure the integrity of actuals flowing into FP&A models.
• Deliver actionable performance insights by identifying key business drivers, opportunities, and risks, and translating them into recommendations that improve efficiency, productivity, and execution.

Requirements

• 8+ years of total experience, including meaningful time in corporate FP&A at a high-growth technology company, and exposure to either investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or a finance rotation at a top-tier firm.
• Direct experience owning or supporting annual planning, long range planning, budget vs. actuals, and monthly financial reviews in both a startup and larger environment where Corporate FP&A processes have been seen at scale.
• Experience implementing and managing modern FP&A planning tools, including configuration and model design.
• Exceptional financial modeling skills, including integrated 3-statement models, headcount models, and scenario frameworks built from scratch in spreadsheet environments (Google Sheets preferred).
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of influencing decisions and building alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.
• A structured, self-directed, detail-oriented builder and problem solver who can design, run, and improve processes.
• A bias for simplifying and automating processes and passion for building an AI-native finance function.
• Degree in finance, economics, accounting, STEM, or equivalent professional experience.
• Accounting background or CPA, particularly with experience partnering closely with a Controller on close processes, revenue recognition, or audit prep.
• Fluency in SaaS and ARR-based business models.
• Proficiency in BI and data tools such as Hex, Tableau, Looker, and SQL, with the ability to pull and validate data independently.

Skills

• Financial modeling
• Integrated 3-statement models
• Headcount models
• Scenario frameworks
• Google Sheets
• Executive communication
• Stakeholder management
• Process design
• Process automation
• SaaS
• ARR-based business models
• BI tools
• Data tools
• Hex
• Tableau
• Looker
• SQL

Location

• San Francisco
• Atlanta
• New York
• London
• Paris
• Madrid
• Munich
• Singapore
• Tokyo
• Sydney

Work Type

• In-person
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 8+ years of total experience
• Senior

Education Level

• Degree in finance, economics, accounting, STEM, or equivalent professional experience
• CPA

Benefits

• Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
• Parental leave
• Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
• Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee
• Discretionary benefit stipend
• Free alphorn lessons
• Equity plans

About the Company

• Sierra is creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.
• The company is guided by values: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family.
• Co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor.
• Bret Taylor's background includes co-CEO of Salesforce, CTO of Facebook, co-creator of Google Maps.
• Clay Bavor's background includes 18 years at Google, leading Google Labs, AR/VR effort, Project Starline, Google Lens, and Google Workspace product and design teams.

Equal Opportunity

• We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description.
• We strive to evaluate all applicants consistently without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.