[Hiring] Senior Analyst, Engineering FP&A @symplr

Role Description

symplr is seeking a Senior FP&A Analyst to provide embedded analytical support for the Technology/R&D organization and help build the financial operating system for engineering investment, workforce planning, capitalization discipline, productivity, and technology cost structure. This Bangalore-based role will partner with various teams to translate engineering activity, capacity, and cost drivers into accurate models, clear reporting, and useful business insight.

The right candidate is hands-on, analytically rigorous, highly curious, and comfortable going deep into workforce data, engineering spend, capitalization inputs, contractor/vendor analytics, cloud/tooling costs, and recurring FP&A deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bcom/MBA
• 3+ years of progressive finance, FP&A, business finance, investment banking, corporate finance, consulting, analytics, or related experience.
• Experience supporting Engineering, Technology, Product, R&D, SaaS, enterprise software, healthcare technology, or similarly complex operating environments preferred.
• Experience with workforce planning, headcount modeling, variance analysis, forecast support, vendor/contractor spend analysis, or management reporting strongly preferred.
• Exposure to PE-backed, high-growth, scaling, multi-product, or operationally complex businesses is helpful but not required.
• Strong financial modeling, Excel, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Working knowledge of workforce planning, scenario analysis, variance analysis, cost-center reporting, vendor analytics, and productivity metrics.
• Familiarity with R&D capitalization, OpEx/CapEx concepts, cloud/tooling cost analysis, and technology cost structures preferred.
• Comfortable working with planning systems, BI tools, ERP/financial systems, and large datasets.

Requirements

• Support Engineering/R&D FP&A with recurring analysis, reporting, and decision support across workforce, capacity, roadmap investment, technical cost structure, and productivity.
• Translate engineering priorities, product/platform initiatives, security work, technical debt, AI/platform investments, and maintenance activity into clearly structured analysis and model inputs.
• Prepare monthly Engineering financial review materials, variance analysis, metrics packages, and supporting schedules for review with Engineering and FP&A leadership.
• Maintain detailed Engineering/R&D planning and forecast models in alignment with Corporate FP&A templates, calendars, definitions, and submission standards.
• Build and update workforce models by team, location, product/platform area, initiative, employee/contractor mix, hiring status, and forecast period.
• Support monthly forecasting, annual planning, variance analysis, and scenario analysis for Engineering/R&D spend, headcount, contractors, vendors, cloud/tooling, and other technology-related costs.
• Prepare accurate, timely, and well-documented forecast inputs that can be reviewed, consolidated, and explained by Engineering FP&A leadership and Corporate FP&A.
• Support R&D capitalization and OpEx/CapEx analysis by organizing inputs, tracking activity, maintaining supporting schedules, and partnering with Accounting/CAO under FP&A leadership guidance.
• Analyze cloud, tooling, vendor, contractor, and technology infrastructure spend tied to engineering productivity and cost efficiency.
• Create and maintain repeatable reports, dashboards, and analysis packs that improve visibility into Engineering investment, capacity, productivity, and trade-offs.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve recurring analysis and reporting processes using planning tools, BI tools, and analytical automation.
• Develop deep fluency in Engineering/R&D operations, technology cost drivers, and symplr’s product/platform investment model.
• Operate as an embedded tower resource rather than a generic shared-services analyst.
• Work collaboratively across U.S. and India time zones.
• Bring curiosity, ownership, and continuous-improvement mindset to a growing FP&A function.

Benefits

• High attention to detail, strong documentation habits, and commitment to producing accurate, timely, and explainable work product.
• Clear communicator who can summarize analysis, risks, and drivers for finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Builder mindset with a bias toward practical process improvement, scalable reporting, and continuous learning.