Strategic Finance Business Partner - Product and Engineering

What You'll Do

• Partner with P&E leadership to manage the department P&L, translating technical initiatives and infrastructure needs into clear financial frameworks that inform resource allocation and investment decisions across product development, engineering operations, and platform infrastructure
• Build financial models and business cases that evaluate competing P&E investments (ie. new platform capabilities, DevOps tooling, infrastructure optimization, technical debt reduction) and provide clear trade-off analysis when ROI metrics don't exist
• Work closely with Engineering leaders to interpret complex cost dashboards, validate technical cost analyses, and translate infrastructure spending patterns into business context that executive leadership can act on
• Deliver monthly and quarterly expense analysis to identify cost trends, investigate variances, and diagnose root causes of budget overruns across engineering tooling and cloud infrastructure spend, then partner with technical leaders to develop corrective actions
• Lead the annual planning and quarterly forecasting process for P&E, collaborating transparently with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to align budgets with strategic priorities
• Apply AI tools to accelerate scenario modeling, automate variance analysis, and extract insights from complex cost datasets, enabling faster and more accurate financial recommendations
• Design and maintain reporting frameworks that give P&E leaders visibility into cost drivers, burn rates, headcount productivity, and project spending to enable faster, data-informed decision-making
• Help guide headcount planning decisions in partnership with the P&E leaders and the greater People organization
• Provide financial guidance on build-vs-buy decisions, vendor negotiations, infrastructure capacity planning, and technical experiments that balance performance with cost efficiency
• Quality and timeliness of financial insights that enable P&E leadership to make confident decisions under ambiguity
• Effectiveness in managing P&E expense trends and identifying cost optimization opportunities without sacrificing technical capabilities
• Accuracy of forecasts and budget management across engineering, product, and infrastructure spend

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive finance experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or finance business partnering roles
• Demonstrated experience supporting Product & Engineering or similar technical functions in a SaaS, DevOps, or technology company, bringing familiarity with how engineering organizations operate and spend
• Proven ability to operate in ambiguous environments where clear success metrics don't exist, bringing structure and frameworks to help leaders make complex trade-off decisions
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field
• Strong proficiency with financial modeling, variance analysis, and building executive-ready presentations that translate technical complexity into actionable financial recommendations
• Experience with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, Adaptive Insights, Planful), business intelligence platforms (e.g. Tableau, Looker, PowerBI), and cloud cost management tools (e.g. Vantage, AWS Cost Explorer)
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets proficiency for financial modeling, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and scenario analysis
• Comfort using AI tools to accelerate financial analysis workflows, with the judgment to validate outputs and maintain accuracy while improving efficiency

Benefits

• Flexible Vacation Policy
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Monthly Wellness Stipend
• Employee Assistance Program and Mental Health Resources

About the Role

Anaconda is built to advance AI with open source at scale, giving builders and organizations the confidence to increase productivity, and save time, spend and risk associated with open source. 95% of the Fortune 500 including Panasonic, AmTrust, Booz Allen Hamilton and over 50 million users rely on the value The Anaconda AI Platform delivers through a centralized approach to sourcing, securing, building, and deploying AI. With 21 billion downloads and growing, Anaconda has established itself as the gold standard for Python, data science, and AI and the enterprise-ready solution of choice for AI innovation. Anaconda is backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners. Learn more at https://www.anaconda.com.

We're looking for a talented Strategic Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team. The Finance team at Anaconda turns financial insights into strategic clarity, enabling data-driven decisions across the business while ensuring responsible stewardship of resources. We partner with leaders across the company to translate business objectives into financial models, drive profitable growth, and build sustainable operations that advance our mission to transform the world with open source.

As a Strategic Finance Business Partner supporting our Product & Engineering (P&E) organization, you'll work directly with our Chief Product & Technology Officer and P&E leadership team to manage the P&E P&L and navigate the ambiguous nature of engineering spend. Unlike revenue-generating functions where impact is directly measurable, you'll help leadership make complex trade-off decisions on investments without clear ROI benchmarks: balancing innovation, technical debt, infrastructure costs, and platform capabilities that enable our entire business. You'll bring structure to uncertainty and can work within the grey, translating technical complexity into financial clarity. This is an excellent opportunity for you to leverage your experience and skills and apply it to the world of data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.