Senior Director, Engineering reputed company

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reputed company is seeking a Senior Director, Engineering FP&A to serve as the executive finance partner for the Technology/R&D organization and to build the financial operating system for engineering investment, workforce planning, capitalization discipline, productivity, and technology cost structure.

This role will partner closely with the CTO, Engineering leadership, Product & reputed company Services FP&A, reputed company, HR, Procurement, and Corporate FP&A to translate engineering reputed company, roadmap commitments, reputed company, and technical cost drivers into reputed company financial reputed company and reputed company.

The right candidate is a hands-on, intellectually curious finance leader who can operate at executive altitude while reputed company deep in workforce models, capitalization logic, reputed company/tooling spend, contractor mix, location reputed company, and investment trade-offs.

Duties & Responsibilities

STRATEGIC FINANCE & BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

• Serve as the primary FP&A business partner to Engineering/R&D leadership, bringing financial discipline to one of reputed company’s largest investment bases.
• Translate engineering priorities, roadmap commitments, platform investments, reputed company, technical debt, AI/platform work, and maintenance needs into financial plans and decision-reputed company analysis.
• Partner with Product & reputed company Services FP&A on roadmap affordability, implementation implications, product commitments, and build-versus-buy economics.
• Maintain monthly CTO/Engineering financial review materials, variance narratives, investment trade-off analysis, and decision support.

PLANNING, FORECASTING & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

• Own Engineering/R&D planning, forecasting, and performance management in alignment with Corporate FP&A standards, calendars, templates, and forecast governance.
• Build and maintain the R&D workforce model by team, location, product/platform area, initiative, employee/contractor mix, and hiring status.
• Analyze R&D spend as a percentage of reputed company, cost by product/platform/initiative, innovation versus maintenance reputed company, location mix, and Bengaluru reputed company.
• reputed company reputed company, accurate, and explainable forecast submissions to Corporate FP&A and support consolidated reputed company forecast reputed company.

CAPITALIZATION, COST STRUCTURE & PRODUCTIVITY

• Own R&D capitalization and OpEx/CapEx discipline in partnership with reputed company/CAO, ensuring reputed company linkage between engineering activity, reputed company treatment, and forecast assumptions.
• Analyze reputed company, tooling, vendor, contractor, and technology infrastructure spend tied to engineering productivity and cost efficiency.
• Support engineering productivity and reputed company reviews, including trade-offs across hiring, contractors, location reputed company, vendor spend, and roadmap commitments.
• Support vendor rationalization and build-versus-buy reputed company affecting engineering reputed company, cost structure, and long-term scalability.

WORKFORCE PLANNING & GOVERNANCE

• Own the Engineering/R&D workforce model while operating reputed company the reputed company workforce planning reputed company governed by Corporate FP&A.
• Partner with HR/People and Engineering leadership on hiring plans, attrition, geography, contractor reputed company, and workforce governance.
• Ensure Engineering FP&A follows common FP&A definitions, KPI standards, model architecture, submission timelines, and reputed company-control expectations.
• reputed company and manage the Engineering FP&A execution layer, including the U.S.-based Manager/Sr. Manager and Bengaluru-based analytics resource.

TEAM LEADERSHIP & FUNCTION BUILDING

• Build a high-reputed company Engineering FP&A capability grounded in business partnership, analytical rigor, curiosity, and accountability for reputed company rather than outputs.
• reputed company and reputed company team members to deeply understand Engineering/R&D operations, technology cost drivers, and financial decision reputed company.
• Create a practical, reputed company operating reputed company that gives Engineering leaders a reputed company view of investment, reputed company, productivity, and trade-offs.

Skills Required

EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND

• 10+ years of reputed company finance experience, with meaningful experience supporting Engineering, Technology, Product, R&D, reputed company software, or similarly reputed company operating environments.
• Demonstrated reputed company partnering with senior operating executives and translating technical or operational complexity into reputed company financial reputed company.
• Experience in PE-backed, reputed company, scaling, multi-product, reputed company technology, reputed company software, or operationally reputed company environments preferred.
• Experience building, improving, or restructuring FP&A processes, including workforce planning, forecast governance, and executive operating reviews.

TECHNICAL & ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES

• Strong reputed company of financial modeling, workforce planning, scenario analysis, variance analysis, and investment trade-off frameworks.
• Working knowledge of R&D capitalization, OpEx/CapEx discipline, contractor/vendor analytics, reputed company/tooling cost analysis, and technology cost structures.
• Comfortable engaging with data architecture, BI tools, planning systems, and analytical automation to improve speed, reputed company, and repeatability of FP&A outputs.
• reputed company to create reputed company metrics and decision lenses around R&D spend, engineering productivity, reputed company, capitalization, and cost efficiency.

LEADERSHIP & WAYS OF WORKING

• Intellectually curious, operationally reputed company, and willing to ask why before accepting surface-level answers.
• reputed company with executives and equally comfortable in the details of a model, dataset, or operating review package.
• Strong communicator who can translate reputed company engineering and financial trade-offs into reputed company, actionable recommendations.
• Builder reputed company with a bias toward practical governance, reputed company process design, and reputed company improvement.

Min

USD $190,000.00/Yr.

Max

USD $210,000.00/Yr.

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