# Strategic Finance - R&D/G&A

**Company:** [Mercury](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mercury)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $129k – $161k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, Headcount Planning, Forecasting, SQL, Variance Analysis, Strategic Finance, Budgeting, Investment Analysis, FP&A, Data Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-05-18

> Finance partner embedded with R&D and G&A leadership at a fintech company, owning headcount/opex planning, forecasting, and strategic resource allocation for engineering, product, and support teams. Requires 3-5 years in IB/strategic finance or consulting plus strong modeling and data skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Be the dedicated finance partner to R&D and G&A leadership. Own the financial relationship with Engineering, Product, Design, HR, Legal, and Finance teams.
- Own headcount and operating expense planning for your orgs. Build and maintain bottoms-up models for R&D and G&A cost bases including headcount by team, vendor spend, allocated infrastructure costs, and discretionary budgets.
- Support strategic resource allocation decisions including build vs. buy tradeoffs, team sizing, investment prioritization, vendor contracts, and functional scaling.
- Drive annual planning and ongoing forecasting cycles. Translate business priorities into financial plans and own forecast-to-actuals variance analysis.
- Bring structure to ambiguous investment questions such as evaluating engineering platforms, sizing legal teams, or assessing ROI of people programs.

## Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience in investment banking, strategic finance, or consulting with exposure to technology companies or headcount-driven organizations.
- Strong financial modeling skills to build clean, flexible headcount or opex models from scratch and explain them to non-finance stakeholders.
- Curiosity about product and engineering organizations, including team structure, infrastructure cost scaling, and people investment ROI.
- Ability to build trust quickly with non-finance partners such as engineers and lawyers.
- Comfortable pulling and working with data independently using SQL, BI tools, or FP&A platforms.
- Clear communication skills to distill complex cost driver analyses into crisp narratives for leadership.

## Compensation
- Total rewards include base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
- US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or San Francisco Bay Area: $142,900 - $160,700
- US employees outside those areas: $128,600 - $144,600
- Canadian employees: CAD 135,000 - 151,900

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