Senior Corporate FP&A Manager

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. 

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

The Senior Corporate FP&A Manager, Workforce Planning & Total Rewards leads Roblox’s end-to-end headcount planning cycle, aligning top-down envelopes and bottoms-up requests across Finance, People, and business leaders. You’ll own how we translate budget dollars into concrete hiring plans, using various internal tools to manage the planning and execution cycles. You’ll partner closely with People Science & Analytics, PBPs, Compensation, and Talent Acquisition to ensure plans are data-driven, executable, and tied to company priorities. Ultimately, you’ll be the connective tissue between our long-range plan, annual budget, and the teams we staff to deliver it. The ideal candidate will be eager to develop and drive processes, has an eye for efficiency, and works well cross functionally. 

You Will: 

• Business Partnership: Develop and maintain business partnerships with People Business Partners, People Operations, Payroll, Compensation, Equity, Total Rewards, and Talent Acquisition. 
• Headcount Planning: Manage centralized headcount planning cycle including setting annual budget, running bottoms-up request collection, and driving Finance/People/Exec review through to budget release. Translate budget dollars into HC targets.
• Planning and Forecasting: Own our centralized compensation & benefits budgets and forecasts which include: salaries & wages, contractor expense, fringe, tax, and SBC expense. Deliverables include annual, quarterly, and monthly FPA cycles consisting of regular variance analysis, re-forecasts, and operational updates.
• Reporting: Establish and continuously improve headcount and workforce reporting (dashboards, monthly read-outs, and exec views) with cross-functional partners so leaders have clear, timely visibility into hiring progress, variances vs. plan, and trade-offs.
• Long Range Planning: Partner with cross-functional teams and executive leadership to establish, influence, and maintain our strategic long-range planning (LRP) goals. 
• Systems & Automation: Use and improve internal tools to manage scenarios, capture bottoms-up requests, connect approved plans to position / req workflows across People organization. Work with our Roblox Operating System, People Science & Analytics and People Business Partner teams to provide the best solution for year-round workforce management across the company. 
• Drive continuous improvement of the workforce management process (e.g., zero-based HC templates, scenario planning, post-mortems on the annual plan cycle).

You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics or quantitative field (math, science, finance/accounting) preferred or equivalent work experience 
• 8+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance or other strategic finance roles.  Public company experience is a plus 
• Strong collaboration and partnership skills; experience managing G&A functions or other functional business partnerships a plus
• Experience multiple projects and stakeholders in a cross-functional environment
• Experience developing analytical frameworks to evaluate investment decisions and communicating financial and strategic concepts to senior leadership
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail with a dedication to data integrity. 
• Experience developing / automating reports on financial and operational performance. Enthusiastic about the future of AI in Finance and interested in leveraging new tools to increase efficiency.
• Proficient with Excel and slides
• Extensive experience with Pigment or other relevant ERP solutions (e.g. Anaplan) a strong plus
• Experience with large datasets, SQL, Tableau and other BI tools a strong plus

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range

$231,940—$276,250 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.