Freshworks US | FP&A Manager, Product & Engineering

Responsibilities

• We are seeking an FP&A Manager to join our Finance team as a dedicated business partner to our global Product & Engineering organization.
• This is a high-impact individual contributor role for an experienced FP&A professional who enjoys working closely with business leaders, understanding what drives their organization, and turning financial data into insights that support better decisions.
• We're looking for someone with strong FP&A fundamentals, excellent business-partnering instincts, and the curiosity to learn the operational and technical drivers behind our Product & Engineering organization.
• Manager, FP&A, you'll partner with Product and Engineering leaders on planning, forecasting, investment decisions, and performance management.
• You'll help leaders understand the financial impact of their decisions, challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and bring a thoughtful financial perspective to how we allocate resources.
• Serve as a trusted FP&A business partner to Product & Engineering leaders, helping them understand financial performance and make informed business decisions.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for your areas of the Product & Engineering organization, connecting headcount, investments, and other operational drivers to our financial plan.
• Build financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate investments, resource allocation decisions, and other business opportunities.
• Analyze financial and operational performance, identify key trends, risks, and opportunities, and translate your findings into actionable recommendations.
• Partner with leaders on headcount and expense planning, helping teams understand tradeoffs and make thoughtful investment decisions.
• Develop reporting and dashboards that provide clear visibility into budgets, forecasts, and key business drivers.
• Partner with Accounting during the monthly close process to ensure accurate results and provide meaningful variance analysis.
• Develop a deeper understanding of Product & Engineering cost drivers, including cloud infrastructure and other technical investments, and help identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Create clear financial narratives and presentations that make complex information easy for Finance and business leaders to understand.
• Identify opportunities to improve and automate FP&A processes, reporting, and workflows so the team can spend more time on analysis and business partnership.
• Create better or worse experiences.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a finance business partner, with the ability to build relationships with business leaders, understand their priorities, and provide financial insights that support better decision-making.
• Solid FP&A fundamentals, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work through complex data, identify what matters, and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Advanced Excel and/or Google Sheets skills and experience building financial and operational models.
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and bring a thoughtful financial point of view to business discussions.
• A proactive, collaborative approach with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Freshworks US

Freshworks US is an employer hiring in India (sector: Technology / IT / BPM).

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in San Mateo.

• Industry: Technology / IT / BPM