Strategic Finance, Systems & AI Innovation

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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The Strategic Finance team is focused on solving some of Figma's most pressing business issues. The team is responsible for owning the company's budget, driving annual and quarterly planning processes, allocating and deploying the company's resources efficiently, performing financial analyses, and partnering with teams across the company.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">This role requires someone who can own and evolve the finance systems backbone at Figma and drive outsized impact as we scale toward more automated, intelligent, and AI-enabled planning. We're looking for someone who is highly analytical and strategic, a great communicator, approaches problems in a structured manner, and is comfortable with ambiguity. You'll get substantial visibility, focus on the highest-priority business issues, and be plugged into every facet of the business.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs (SF / NY) or remotely in the United States.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>What you'll do at Figma:</strong></p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Drive the execution of transformational projects by applying their finance and systems expertise, collaborating with partners across the organization, and defining business processes that improve automation, standardization, and simplicity</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Influence Figma Finance's AI adoption strategy, defining how AI can be embedded into systems and workflows as infrastructure to drive analysis, reporting, and forecast decisions and execute on adoption alongside the team</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Serve as the functional and technical owner of the financial planning platform (Pigment), leading development, enhancement, training, enablement, maintenance, and administration</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own the systems roadmap end-to-end, including prioritization, resource deployment, UAT, and governance</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Design and evolve a best-in-class systems architecture, optimizing data flows, integrations, and tooling with influence extending beyond Pigment and Finance data to the broader company data ecosystem</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Establish strong cross-functional partnerships with Strategic Finance Data Science, Data Engineering, Accounting, and Operations to influence data architecture, design integrations and optimize business processes & sophisticated forecasting in Pigment and Agentic tooling</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Develop dashboards and data visualizations to surface key KPIs and business insights</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Drive best practices across systems controls, data governance, and change management frameworks</li>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>We'd love to hear from you if you have:</strong></p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">5+ years of experience in Finance Systems, roadmap execution or a related function</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong technical skills with system design & implementation, AI automation, data architecture, integrations</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Working knowledge of financial processes including O2C, P2P, FP&A, Accounting Ops, and close cycles</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong project management instincts, with ability to run multiple workstreams simultaneously</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Clear, structured communicator across technical and non-technical audiences</li>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>While it's not required, it's an added plus if you have:</strong></p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Proficiency with SQL</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Data science background</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience managing consultants or external resources</li>
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<div>At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.</div>
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<p>If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.    </p>
<p>Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (includ