Manager/Director, FP&A

🌎 Location: Remote within the US

⬆ Reporting Into: Chief Financial Officer 

💰Compensation: $140,000-$185,000 base salary, based on qualifications and experience. 

About Ceros

At Ceros, you’ll help ambitious brands create digital experiences that people actually want to explore. Our platform gives marketers and designers the flexibility to design, build, and publish immersive content. All without code. With Ceros, teams move faster, scale smarter, and deliver work that makes a real impact.

Customers report engagement times that are 80% longer and conversion rates more than 20% higher on Ceros-built experiences. That kind of performance is why leading brands like Pepsi, TimeOut, and Mastercard rely on us. Working here means shaping the future of digital experiences and joining a team that values bold ideas, creativity, and purpose-driven work.

The Role

The Manager/Director, FP&A is expected to make a significant contribution and play a critical role in the organization, interfacing with senior executives and business leaders. You will be relied upon to assess the financial and analytical aspects of key business decisions and drive strategic decisions.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable communicating complex analyses clearly to various stakeholders across the business and will not be afraid to roll up their sleeves to get the job done. You are not afraid of working extensively with data and are comfortable operating in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver key insights regarding both financial and business metrics, and provide strategic advice to facilitate decision-making in a timely manner
• Support the improvement and operation of the company's financial model, including headcount projections, cost and vendor expense management, and detailed revenue forecasting
• Help lead the long-term, annual, and quarterly forecasting process
• Prepare financial and KPI data for monthly/quarterly board and executive reporting
• Own management reporting and partner with the business on expense controls and management
• Responsible for owning and maintaining a system implementation
• Assist in financial-related work streams in connection with future capital-raise activities
• Develop sustainable and scalable processes for ongoing financial reporting and review.
• Analyze and report on historical and projected monthly/quarterly/annual performance trends
• Lead and contribute to investment decisions and new strategic initiatives through ad-hoc analyses

Practical stuff we anticipate you having

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related major
• 7+ years of experience in FP&A, accounting, investment banking, management consulting, or another finance-related role
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, and experience with complex financial models
• Superior attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills; ability to work cross-functionally with multiple teams and communicate effectively
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently in a dynamic, fast-paced setting

What we’re looking for from the heart

• Experience working with rapidly growing Venture / Private Equity backed technology companies
• Equally adept at working in teams or on solo projects
• Natural curiosity and a problem solver
• Strong alignment with Ceros’ cultural values
• Ability/Willingness to work U.S. East Coast business hours

Key Things to Know

• We want you to start ASAP 
• This is a full-time position
• This is a remote-first role

Benefits

📍Global remote-first organization 

📈 Stock options

🏥 Premium health insurance

🏦 401K matching

👶 Paid parental leave after a year of employment: 16 weeks for primary caregivers, 4 weeks for secondary caregivers

🌴 Flexible vacation days

🤒 Paid Sick days

💵 Stipend for your home office setup

💻 Excellent gear (Macbook Air, external monitor, etc.)

👩‍💻👨‍💻  Stipend towards experiences in which Cerosians can collaborate, educate, and create social connections with one another

🏢 Unlimited access to co-working spaces around the globe

Please be aware of fraudulent job offers. Ceros will never request payment, banking details, or sensitive personal information during the hiring process. All official communication will come from a @ceros.com domain or from our Greenhouse email account. If you receive a suspicious message, do not respond and report it to jobscams@ceros.com. This email address is intended solely for reporting suspicious activity. Job applications sent to this address will not be reviewed.

At Ceros, we are deeply committed to the recruitment, retention, and growth of diverse talent; uniting people from unique backgrounds in our shared passion for unlocking creativity through technology.

As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, color, religion, veteran status, parental status, gender identity or expression, transgender status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.  We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our company

• Create a Ceros‑specific financial model in Excel (e.g., SaaS ARR, churn, and LTV/CAC) that includes dynamic charts and a short slide deck summarizing insights; attach the model (or a sanitized version) to your application and be ready to walk through it in the interview to prove both Excel mastery and product knowledge.
• Compile a remote‑leadership portfolio: 3–4 concise case studies (1‑2 pages each) that show how you built and coached FP&A teams across time zones, implemented asynchronous reporting processes, and drove decision‑making without in‑person meetings. Share these as PDFs or a private Notion page link.
• In your cover letter and interview, speak the language of Ceros’ metrics (e.g., engagement time, conversion uplift, design‑to‑publish cycle). Prepare specific questions about how finance partners with product and creative teams to quantify those outcomes, demonstrating that you understand the company’s value proposition.
• Highlight experience presenting to C‑suite audiences by preparing a 5‑minute “CFO‑ready” briefing deck that distills complex financial analysis into visual stories—use the same visual style (bold colors, minimal text) that Ceros’ platform promotes, showing you can translate data into the immersive experiences the brand sells.
• When negotiating salary, reference 2023‑24 FP&A Director market data for remote US roles (e.g., Radford, H1B Salary Survey) and align your ask with the $140‑$185 k range by quantifying past impact (e.g., “saved $2.3 M YoY by redesigning forecasting cadence”). Emphasize your remote‑work efficiency (lower overhead) as a value‑add for Ceros’ distributed model.