Sierra College

Sierra College

FP&A Lead

San Francisco, CA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
SQLData VisualizationStakeholder ManagementSalesforceFinancial ModelingAccountingForecastingFP&AAR/VRCommunication

About the role

  • Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/.
  • Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI.
  • Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps.

Responsibilities

  • As our FP&A Lead, you'll drive the processes and frameworks that connect our financial plan to company strategy, partnering cross-functionally to drive clarity on performance, resource allocation, and long-range trajectory.
  • This is a high-ownership IC role for a builder who is energized by ambiguity and wants their fingerprints on how a Series E AI company understands its own business.
  • Systems and Infrastructure: Drive and evolve our FP&A toolset, including modern planning software, BI integrations, and the underlying data model that supports scalable reporting.
  • Build and document repeatable processes, templates, and operating cadences that will scale as we grow.
  • Cross Functional Partnership: Drive cross-functional alignment on goals, building stakeholder buy-in, and enabling effective decision-making and execution across the organization.
  • Partner with Accounting to ensure the integrity of actuals flowing into FP&A models.
  • Insights: Deliver actionable performance insights by identifying key business drivers, opportunities, and risks, and translating them into recommendations that improve efficiency, productivity, and execution.
  • Experience implementing and managing modern FP&A planning tools, including configuration and model design, not just end-user experience.
  • Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of influencing decisions and building alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.
  • A structured, self-directed, detail-oriented builder and problem solver who can design a process where none exists, run it, and improve it over time without being managed toward it.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in BI and data tools such as Hex, Tableau, Looker, and SQL, with the ability to pull and validate data independently.

Nice to have

  • Exceptional financial modeling skills, including integrated 3-statement models, headcount models, and scenario frameworks built from scratch in spreadsheet environments (Google Sheets preferred).
  • Degree in finance, economics, accounting, STEM, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Accounting background or CPA, particularly if you have experience partnering closely with a Controller on close processes, revenue recognition, or audit prep.

Compensation

  • Planning and Forecasting: Develop and drive our corporate financial planning processes end-to-end, including long range planning, annual planning, and rolling forecasts.
  • Direct experience owning or supporting annual planning, long range planning, budget vs. actuals, and monthly financial reviews in both a startup and larger environment where you have seen Corporate FP&A processes at scale.

Benefits

  • We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:
  • Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
  • Parental leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
  • These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans.
  • Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Company info

  • At Sierra, we're creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney.
  • We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
  • Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google's AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
  • At Sierra, we're creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.
  • We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney.
  • We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family.
  • These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
  • Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook.
  • Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs.
  • Earlier, he started and led Google's AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens.
  • Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.

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