Senior FP&A Manager (Contract)

Job description

Cloudinary is the Image and Video API platform trusted by millions of developers and over 10,000 companies worldwide. Our powerful tools fuel websites to be faster, richer in user engagement, and breakthrough creativity. With a growing suite of products that support everything from developer efficiency to brand storytelling, Cloudinary is becoming the visual layer of the web. Cloudinary has a globally distributed team across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, united by a shared commitment to building smart, scalable technology and a culture rooted in humility, curiosity, and collaboration. At Cloudinary, we celebrate Life & Work. We believe in healthy growth, working with purpose, and creating meaningful value. If you’re looking for a place where your voice matters and your work truly makes an impact, this may be the opportunity for you. Cloudinary is seeking a highly analytical and strategic Senior FP&A Manager to join the CFO Office. Reporting to the VP of Finance, FP&A, you will lead company-wide financial planning, forecasting, cash flow management, and performance analysis. As a key business partner to Finance and executive leadership, you will drive financial visibility, operational discipline, and data-driven decision-making while helping build the processes, rigor, and scalability required for Cloudinary’s journey toward becoming a public company. **This is a 6-month contract position, requiring a minimum of 2 days at our San Jose Office.** ### What You’ll Do - Support the company’s Annual Operating Plan (AOP), long-range planning, and rolling forecast processes, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities and resource allocation. - Own company-wide cash flow Annual Budget, forecasting and liquidity planning, including monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-term projections. - Develop and maintain integrated financial models covering P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital, and key SaaS operating metrics. - Drive scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and risk assessments to support executive decision-making and strategic initiatives. - Consolidate departmental forecasts into company-wide financial outlooks and evaluate risks and opportunities against plan. - Partner with FinOps, Revenue Operations, GTM, and Business Analysis teams to improve revenue-to-cash visibility, collections forecasting, and cash predictability. - Monitor and analyze key working capital drivers, including DSO, collections performance, and balance sheet cash impacts. - Lead monthly and quarterly Budget vs. Actual (BvA) and Forecast vs. Actual (FvA) analyses, providing clear insights into business performance and cash flow trends. - Partner with functional leaders to support operating expense planning, investment evaluations, and resource allocation decisions. - Own and report on key SaaS operating metrics, including NRR, Gross Retention, CAC, CAC Payback period, Gross Margin, Operating Margin, Rule of 40, and Free Cash Flow - Prepare executive, Board, and investor-ready financial reporting materials, translating complex financial information into actionable insights. - Drive continuous improvement of FP&A processes, forecasting methodologies, governance, and financial systems to support scalability and IPO readiness. - Collaborate closely with Accounting, ARR Reporting & Analysis, Procurement, RevOps, and other business partners to ensure consistency across planning, reporting, and operational processes. - Support strategic initiatives, ad hoc analyses, and special projects that influence company growth and long-term value creation. ### What We’re Looking For - 10+ years of progressive FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Strategic Finance experience. - Experience in a public, pre-IPO, or high-growth private SaaS company, preferably with $100M+ ARR. - Strong understanding of SaaS business models, operating metrics, revenue drivers, and working capital management. - Demonstrated experience leading annual planning, long-range planning, forecasting, and executive reporting processes. - Proven ability to build and maintain complex financial models that support strategic and operational decision-making. - Strong understanding of **cash flow forecasting, balance sheet planning, liquidity management, and free cash flow drivers**. - Experience preparing executive and Board-level presentations and influencing senior leadership decisions through financial insights. - Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills. - Fluent English (written and spoken). ### Tools & Systems - Advanced Excel and Google Sheets modeling skills. - Experience with NetSuite and Salesforce. - Experience with financial planning and consolidation systems (Planful, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, or similar) - a plus. - Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools, including Claude Code or similar technologies, for FP&A use cases - an advantage. ### Why Join Us? - Play a critical role in shaping the financial strategy of a category-leading SaaS company. - Partner directly with senior leadership on high-impact business decisions. - Help build the processes, discipline, and financial infrastructure required for long-term scale and public-company readiness. - Join a collaborative, high-performing Finance organization focused on innovation, continuous improvement, and business partnership.