Senior FP and A Business Partner

Founded in 2009, SendGrid is an industry-disrupting, cloud-based customer communication platform that solves the challenges of reliably delivering emails on behalf of our customers. We deliver over 33 billion emails a month for customers like Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber.

SendGrid is seeking a Senior FP&A Business Partner to support our product management, software engineering, and data center operation teams. You will work closely with key executives to provide critical financial, analytical and integrated planning support across a wide arc of the product lifecycle. You will play a vital role in ensuring that our internal product investment strategies are aligned to maximize value creation through detailed business case development and implementation of spend optimization strategies. Our company is making a major investment in operational excellence and in this role you will be a substantial part of that initiative. You are an individual who possess a wide range of senior level financial, business and SaaS industry experience along with strong project and change management skills. You are excited to bring these skills and talents to a fast moving and collaborative working environment where you will a material impact.

**Product Investment Decision Support** * You will assist the Product management team in building business cases for investments in new products and new product features to ensure that we have a high level of confidence that we are making optimal resource allocation decisions. **Software Engineering Workforce and Efficiency Planning** * You will partner with the software engineering leadership to build a resource allocation plan that will help ensure successful attainment of our product roadmap. **Data Center Capacity Planning and Asset** **Optimization** * You will partner with our technical operations team to refine our forecasting of data center capacity needs and the supporting asset strategy. Additionally, you will work with that team to optimize the financial optimization of our data center spend through procurement and hardware implementation strategies. **Fiscal Oversight and General Financial Advisory Role** * As the FP&A partner for several key executives in the company you will be the primary point of contact for a range of financial and business topics and projects. This will encompass such items as helping with their budgeting and forecasting activities to decision support and change impact analysis.

* Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required. MBA preferred. * 8+ years of progressive financial experience. At least 5 year of that experience within an FP&A department is required. * Experience working in a technology/software (ideally SaaS based) company with exposure to product management, software engineering and data center operations. * Master level data manipulation and calculation skills: Blackbelt level Excel talents are a given. * Experience working with and driving consensus among senior level management * Project management experience: You are highly organized and can keep a project moving on schedule. Track record of prioritizing and managing multiple projects and priorities with tight deadlines * Generally very proficient working with data and financial systems such as NetSuite, business intelligence tools and corporate performance management software * We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all of the things you'll do