We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us!

Your opportunity

This position reports to the Senior Director of FP&A (R&D and COGS) and will be a key member of New Relic’s Finance team. In this highly visible role, you will act as the principal financial thought partner to R&D, collaborating with key leaders to identify and implement strategic initiatives that deliver measurable value and drive organizational excellence. You will be responsible for establishing and executing comprehensive financial planning, reporting, and analysis for each group of the R&D organization, including granular tracking of R&D costs, resource allocation, and milestone progress across all initiatives. You will lead the development and oversight of resource planning processes to optimize team allocation, support timely project delivery, and inform strategic workforce decisions. Additionally, you will drive the creation and enhancement of systems to track actual work performed on R&D projects, integrating time accounting, cost categorization, and real-time status updates to ensure data accuracy and reporting efficiency. The position requires a high level of diligence, maturity and analytical thinking, as many key recommendations and insights will be focused towards the Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), assisting them with decision making.

Your responsibilities will include leading forecasting processes—such as the annual budget and long-range planning—analyzing results, and partnering with other finance and executive team members to ensure that financial objectives for the current period are met. Through insightful financial analysis, you will help guide executive decision-making on critical investments and strategic priorities. Lastly, this role will inherit a distributed team of 2 and will require the ability to lead a high functioning team.

The ideal candidate will operate at a high level of intellectual curiosity, exhibit superior analytical skills, demonstrate effective communication skills, and bring a proven ability to work with and lead teams. S/he will have the communication skills and combine both business and financial acumen to distill business decisions into a financial model.

What you'll do

Strategic Planning and Analysis:

Consolidation for Total Company R&D Spend: Oversee the consolidation and reporting of total company R&D spend, partnering with finance, accounting, and business unit leaders to ensure accuracy, transparency, and compliance.
Develop financial processes associated with R&D organization and lead team to develop tracking and reporting metrics to drive improvements in R&D efficiency, removing process bottlenecks, and keeping team accountable to budget and timelines.
Resource Planning: Develop and oversee comprehensive R&D resource planning processes to optimize team allocation, support project delivery, and inform strategic workforce decisions.
End-to-End Reporting from Budget to Actuals: Architect and deploy end-to-end financial reporting solutions that connect budget to actual results, ensuring full traceability and comprehensive oversight from project inception through execution and close.
Assist with the development of and track multi-year Strategic Long Range Plan, informed by company strategy. Monitor progress against Plan key metrics, and drive follow ups to completion with critical stakeholders
Conduct regular reviews of business performance and strategic alignment against the long range plan
Track and analyze key business/financial KPIs, uncover trends and assess current/future business risks and opportunities

Business Partnering:

Work with various functional leaders as their trusted thought partner to ensure they have a deep level of visibility into their financials in order to hit long term and short-term expectations and provide thoughtful insights on how to better manage their costs.
Drive all Forecasting, Budget and long-range planning by partnering with functional leaders and their respective teams
Ensure actual results are aligned to expectations through detailed variance analysis.
Establish a strong collaborative culture with peers and other functions while promoting a culture of success, pride, performance, discipline and creativity.
Oversee all close related activities to support R&D organization.
Manage the company’s critical technology costs which help drive the commercialization of our products.

Strategic Initiative Evaluation:

ROI Analysis: Lead ROI analysis for major R&D investments, leveraging advanced financial modeling and scenario planning to provide actionable insights for executive decision-making.
Provide data-driven insights to facilitate decision-making and influence strategy through advanced financial model building, reporting
Execute ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address highly complex business R&D questions, deriving actionable insights from results

Collaboration:

Operate in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that is constantly evolving

This role requires

5+ years of financial planning and analysis experience in a fast paced/high growth company environment, with a finance background that includes financial planning and analysis, finance, budgeting, and financial modeling, including at least 3 years of experience either in or in a combination of a FP&A inside a company and/or in software focused private equity
Proven track record as an effective financial business partner with a strong internal customer service focus
Strong financial and analytical skills with ability to assimilate data, extract insights, and make informed recommendations with conviction
Highly organized with a strong attention to detail - we are responsible for everything
Ability to problem solve and proactively project manage numerous workstreams with competing timelines
Able to effectively manage projects; results oriented and able to roll-up the sleeves in order to accomplish necessary tasks
Able to work in a fast pace, high-growth environment
Ability to manage a high performing team
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to convey complex ideas in plain English to senior management and the board
Self-motivated, high energy, respectful, honest, hard-working and loyal
Excellent MS Excel and financial modeling skills are required
Proven ability to learn new accounting & reporting tool

Bonus points if you have

Experience in working in the Research & Development function on FP&A
Experience with Adaptive and Workday

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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The pay range below represents a reasonable estimate of the salary for the listed position. This role is eligible for a corporate bonus plan. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related factors such as an applicant’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, flex time-off, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time-off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

Estimated Base Pay Range

$127,000—$150,000 USD

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].

We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.

Our hiring process

In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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