Senior, Financial Analyst; FP&A (R&D)

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Remote, United States

Reporting To: Director of FP&A

Description

Veriforce® is a recognized leader in delivering comprehensive, integrated supply chain risk management solutions that help bring workers home safely and optimize business performance. The company’s SaaS safety and compliance platform, data integrity and verification practices, and standardized safety training programs empower leading organizations to drive safety and compliance into their supply chains and down to the worker level. As the world’s largest supply chain risk management network, Veriforce partners with over 3,200 hiring companies in over 130 countries, serving more than 80,000 contractors, over 7,000 authorized instructors and evaluators, and millions of individual workers. This network makes Veriforce the preferred partner for companies that strive to ensure a safe, qualified third-party workforce. Company offices are in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, the U.K., and Australia.

As our business scales and our product portfolio becomes more sophisticated, we need a strategic finance partner embedded in our R&D organization to help leadership make smarter, faster decisions about where to invest our engineering resources.

As Senior FP&A Analyst supporting R&D, you'll be the financial advisor to our CTO and CPO, translating complex product and engineering data into actionable insights that shape our product roadmap and investment strategy. You'll build the financial models that help us evaluate build vs. buy decisions, assess the ROI of new product initiatives, and optimize our R&D spending across technical debt and innovation.

This role offers the opportunity to directly influence product strategy at a growing [SaaS/tech] company backed by Apax Partners. You'll combine deep analytical rigor with business partnership, working cross-functionally with engineering, product, and finance leadership to drive results. If you're energized by translating technical complexity into financial clarity and want to be at the intersection of finance and product strategy, this role is for you.

The ideal candidate brings strong FP&A fundamentals, thrives in ambiguity, and has the technical horsepower to work with complex data sets while maintaining the business acumen to influence senior leaders.

What that means day-to-day:

• Partner with CTO and CPO to drive financial decision-making for the R&D organization, including evaluating technical debt vs. feature investment trade-offs, conducting ROI analyses for product initiatives, and building product line P&Ls that inform strategic priorities
•  Translate product roadmaps into financial forecasts, ensuring alignment between engineering capacity, product strategy, and financial targets
•  Lead monthly and quarterly forecasting processes for R&D, collaborating with leadership to develop accurate projections based on hiring plans, project timelines, and resource allocation
•  Manage project tracking systems to monitor R&D spending across initiatives, connecting data from multiple sources (HRIS, project management tools, financial systems) to provide comprehensive visibility
•  Deliver monthly budget vs. actual analysis with detailed variance explanations, drilling into payroll, contractor spend, and vendor costs to identify trends and opportunities 
• Analyze key business drivers to quantify how R&D investments translate into product velocity, customer adoption, and incremental revenue
• Own COGS hosting forecasting and analysis, partnering with engineering and operations teams to model cost drivers and identify optimization opportunities 
•  Develop headcount planning models that balance investment needs with efficiency targets
•  Identify and implement process improvements to streamline reporting workflows, leveraging automation and AI where appropriate 
• Prepare board-ready materials with clear narratives and compelling data visualization that communicate complex financial stories to non-financial audiences

What you’ll need to be successful:

•  5+ years of FP&A experience with demonstrated expertise in financial modeling and business partnership, preferably in high-growth or PE-backed companies 
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA a plus
• Advanced proficiency in Excel to facilitate complex modeling 
•  Experience with financial systems (NetSuite or similar ERP platforms) 
• Comfort working with data from multiple systems and building integrated reporting solutions
• Exceptional analytical ab