Manager, FP&A

Overview

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us!

This position reports to the Senior Director of FP&A (R&D and COGS) and will be a key member of New Relic's Finance team. In this highly visible role, you will act as the principal financial thought partner to R&D, collaborating with key leaders to identify and implement strategic initiatives that deliver measurable value and drive organizational excellence. You will be responsible for establishing and executing comprehensive financial planning, reporting, and analysis for each group of the R&D organization, including granular tracking of R&D costs, resource allocation, and milestone progress across all initiatives.

You will lead the development and oversight of resource planning processes to optimize team allocation, support timely project delivery, and inform strategic workforce decisions. Additionally, you will drive the creation and enhancement of systems to track actual work performed on R&D projects, integrating time accounting, cost categorization, and real-time status updates to ensure data accuracy and reporting efficiency. The position requires a high level of diligence, maturity and analytical thinking, as many key recommendations and insights will be focused towards the Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), assisting them with decision making.

Your responsibilities will include leading forecasting processes—such as the annual budget and long-range planning—analyzing results, and partnering with other finance and executive team members to ensure that financial objectives for the current period are met. Through insightful financial analysis, you will help guide executive decision‑making on critical investments and strategic priorities. Lastly, this role will inherit a distributed team of 2 and will require the ability to lead a high functioning team.

The ideal candidate will operate at a high level of intellectual curiosity, exhibit superior analytical skills, demonstrate effective communication skills, and bring a proven ability to work with and lead teams. S/he will have the communication skills and combine both business and financial acumen to distill business decisions into a financial model.

• Strategic Planning and Analysis:
  • Consolidation for Total Company R&D Spend:
    Oversee the consolidation and reporting of total company R&D spend, partnering with finance, accounting, and business unit leaders to ensure accuracy, transparency, and compliance.
  • Develop financial processes associated with R&D organization and lead team to develop tracking and reporting metrics to drive improvements in R&D efficiency, removing process bottlenecks, and keeping team accountable to budget and timelines.
  • Resource Planning:
    Develop and oversee comprehensive R&D resource planning processes to optimize team allocation, support project delivery, and inform strategic workforce decisions.
  • End‑to‑End Reporting from Budget to Actuals:
    Architect and deploy end‑to‑end financial reporting solutions that connect budget to actual results, ensuring full traceability and comprehensive oversight from project inception through execution and close.
  • Assist with the development of and track multi‑year Strategic Long‑Range Plan, informed by company strategy. Monitor progress against Plan key metrics, and drive follow‑ups to completion with critical stakeholders.
  • Conduct regular reviews of business performance and strategic alignment against the long‑range plan.
  • Track and analyze key business/financial KPIs, uncover trends and assess current/future business risks and opportunities.
• Business Partnering:
  • Work with various functional leaders as their trusted thought partner to…