Senior Director, Engineering FP&A

Overview

symplr 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.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary FP&A business partner to Engineering/R&D leadership, bringing financial discipline to one of symplr’s largest investment bases.
• Translate engineering priorities, roadmap commitments, platform investments, security, technical debt, AI/platform work, and maintenance needs into financial plans and decision-ready analysis.
• Partner with Product & Professional 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.
• 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 revenue, cost by product/platform/initiative, innovation versus maintenance capacity, location mix, and Bengaluru leverage.
• Provide timely, accurate, and explainable forecast submissions to Corporate FP&A and support consolidated enterprise forecast quality.
• Own R&D capitalization and OpEx/CapEx discipline in partnership with Accounting/CAO, ensuring clear linkage between engineering activity, accounting treatment, and forecast assumptions.
• Analyze cloud, tooling, vendor, contractor, and technology infrastructure spend tied to engineering productivity and cost efficiency.
• Support engineering productivity and capacity reviews, including trade-offs across hiring, contractors, location strategy, vendor spend, and roadmap commitments.
• Support vendor rationalization and build-versus-buy decisions affecting engineering capacity, cost structure, and long-term scalability.
• Own the Engineering/R&D workforce model while operating within the enterprise workforce planning framework governed by Corporate FP&A.
• Partner with HR/People and Engineering leadership on hiring plans, attrition, geography, contractor strategy, and workforce governance.
• Ensure Engineering FP&A follows common FP&A definitions, KPI standards, model architecture, submission timelines, and quality-control expectations.
• Create a practical, scalable operating cadence that gives Engineering leaders a clear view of investment, capacity, productivity, and trade-offs.

Skills Required

• 10+ years of progressive finance experience, with meaningful experience supporting Engineering, Technology, Product, R&D, enterprise software, or similarly complex operating environments.
• Demonstrated success partnering with senior operating executives and translating technical or operational complexity into clear financial insight.
• Experience in PE-backed, growth, scaling, multi-product, healthcare technology, enterprise software, or operationally complex environments preferred.
• Experience building, improving, or restructuring FP&A processes, including workforce planning, forecast governance, and executive operating reviews.
• Strong command 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, cloud/tooling cost analysis, and technology cost structures.
• Comfortable engaging with data architecture, BI tools, planning systems, and analytical automation to improve speed, quality, and repeatability of FP&A outputs.
• Able to create clear metrics and decision lenses around R&D spend, engineering productivity, capacity, capitalization, and cost efficiency.
• Intellectually curious, operationally sharp, and willing to ask why before accepting surface-level answers.
• Credible with executives and equally comfortable in the details of a model, dataset, or operating review package.
• Strong communicator who can translate complex engineering and financial trade-offs into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Biased toward practical governance, scalable process design, and continuous improvement.

Pay

Min USD $190,000.00/Yr. Max USD $210,000.00/Yr.