At Weights & Biases, our mission is to build the best tools for AI developers. We founded our company on the insight that while there were excellent tools for developers to build better code, there were no similarly great tools to help ML practitioners build better models. Starting with our first experiment tracking product, we have since expanded our solution into a comprehensive AI developer platform for organizations focused on building their own deep learning models and generative AI applications.
Weights & Biases is a Series C company with $250M in funding and over 200 employees. We proudly serve over 1,000 customers and more than 30 foundation model builders including customers such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Toyota.
We are seeking a highly motivated FP&A Associate, R&D to join our dynamic FP&A team. Reporting to the Director of R&D FP&A, this role will play a critical part in supporting the financial planning, analysis and reporting activities for the R&D organization. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills, exceptional financial acumen and the ability to collaborate constructively with cross functional teams.
In this high impact role, you will have an opportunity to work closely with multiple R&D stakeholders and the broader Finance org to drive data-driven decision making and support strategic investments in R&D initiatives.
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Responsibilities
- Financial Planning & Forecasting:
- Support monthly and quarterly close processes, including detailed variance analyses on hosting costs, R&D expenses and headcount, along with accurately forecasting budgets and their impacts on the Company’s overall financial performance.
- Maintain and refine advanced financial models, including bottoms-up hosting infrastructure forecasts, integrating key usage and cost drivers to optimize resource allocation, improve efficiencies and manage expenses.
- -Conduct extensive financial analyses and scenario modeling on hosting metrics, R&D KPIs and business trends to prioritize R&D investments, evaluate trade-offs and align business decisions with strategic objectives.
