Automattic
Senior Manager of FP&A, WooCommerce
Automattic
$120k - $200k
Remote (North American Time Zone)

Senior Manager of FP&A, WooCommerce

Overview

Automattic is seeking a highly skilled Senior Manager to join their FP&A team for WooCommerce, an ecommerce platform built on WordPress.

Job Description

Automattic, the global leader in publishing, messaging, and commerce software, is looking for a Senior Manager of FP&A for WooCommerce. This role involves strategic planning, financial analysis, and operational execution to support and facilitate growth.

Responsibilities

  • - Oversee the creation of reporting packages to provide WooCommerce leadership with timely and informative results, and provide guidance on actionable recommendations.
  • - Organize and conduct management reviews on a regular cadence to drive decisions and actions.
  • - Work closely with key business functions to capture the financial impact of decisions, ensuring seamless integration into the forecast model.
  • - Provide support and analysis on potential partnerships, acquisitions, and growth initiatives, including standard financial models and metrics for financial analysis and assessment.
  • - Track KPI shifts, analyze root causes, and deliver clear insights to stakeholders.
  • - Conduct proactive industry and product research to support strategic decisions and analysis.
  • - Lead the development and monitoring of key operational metrics, driving waste reduction and process improvements to enhance productivity and efficiency across the business unit.

Required Skills

  • - 8+ years of experience working in corporate or business-unit financial operations with demonstrated success in a high-growth, constantly evolving environment.
  • - Extensive experience with FP&A at both corporate and business unit levels, including annual planning, performance analysis, and use of data to drive decisions.
  • - Ability to recommend, influence, develop, and implement programs that improve competitive positioning and profitability.
  • - Strong business and operational acumen, and proven track record of close partnership with senior leadership.
  • - Experience creating business cases that guide strategic investments.
  • - Experience in SaaS/Software and an understanding of how to forecast and monitor different types of revenue and costs.
  • - Knowledge of SMB, commerce, or fintech preferred.
  • - A strong technical understanding of the online payments industry including commercial terms, cost structures, and fees, is a plus.
  • - Online payments experience across multiple countries, specifically those in North America and Europe, is a plus.

Benefits

  • - Fully remote company with an open vacation policy
  • - Competitive salary
  • - Opportunity to work with a global leader in publishing, messaging, and commerce software

About the company

We are the people behind WordPress.com, Woo, Jetpack, WordPress VIP, Simplenote, Longreads, The Atavist, WPScan, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, Day One, Pocket Casts, Newspack, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.