# Director, FP&A

**Company:** [Sentry](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sentry)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $240k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** FP&A, Financial Modeling, Forecasting, Annual Planning, Long-Range Planning, Variance Analysis, Headcount Planning, NetSuite, Looker, Adaptive Planning, Planful, Pigment, Vareto, Excel, Google Sheets
**Posted:** 2026-09-08

> Leads company-wide FP&A, forecasting, planning, headcount modeling, cost management, and executive reporting while rebuilding scalable finance processes. The role requires 8+ years of progressive FP&A experience, strong accounting partnership, financial systems expertise, and executive communication skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own company-wide forecasting, annual planning, and long-range planning, including the consolidated financial model and corporate roll-up.
- Establish operating cadences for forecasts, budget-to-actual performance, variance analysis, and financial-results communication.
- Partner with Accounting during monthly and quarterly close by providing accrual inputs, budget-to-actual analysis, and variance explanations.
- Own company-wide headcount planning and forecasting, including hiring plans, compensation, and workforce investment.
- Lead the financial component of Board and executive reporting.
- Partner with company leaders on business evaluation, tradeoffs, and resource allocation.
- Oversee cost management, including cloud, AI infrastructure, vendor, and other major spending areas.
- Improve FP&A systems, models, reporting, and data infrastructure; automate manual work.
- Build cross-functional relationships across Finance, Accounting, People, Engineering, and other teams.
- Standardize, automate, redesign, and expand FP&A processes as the company grows.
- Manage an FP&A Manager focused on company spend.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive FP&A experience, including leading planning and forecasting processes end to end.
- Experience designing or rebuilding elements of an FP&A or financial-planning function.
- Experience partnering with Accounting or Controllership on close activities, including budget-to-actual analysis, accruals, and variance analysis.
- Experience with NetSuite, Looker or a comparable business-intelligence tool, and a modern planning or EPM platform.
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.
- Experience building and presenting executive-level materials.
- Prior people-management experience preferred.

## Nice-to-haves
- MBA or CPA.
- Experience with Adaptive Planning, Planful, Pigment, or Vareto.

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