FPA Manager, Finance

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to harness the power of technology to pursue some of society’s most ambitious goals — from curing or preventing all disease to transforming how students learn.

At CZI, you’ll join a deeply collaborative, mission-driven community where your work helps drive breakthroughs across our flagship nonprofit organizations, Biohub and Learning Commons. Whether enabling scientific breakthroughs via open science and AI-powered biology or strengthening the tools teachers and students rely on every day, your contributions help turn bold ideas into real-world impact.

Our teams operate at the intersection of innovation and scale, building the infrastructure, partnerships, and capabilities that allow scientists, educators, and innovators to tackle some of the most complex challenges of our time — and to do so with urgency, integrity, and optimism.

The Team

Across our work in Science, Education, and within our communities, we pair technology with grantmaking, impact investing, and collaboration to help accelerate the pace of progress toward our mission. Our Operations organization provides the support needed to push this work forward.  Operations consists of our Brand & Communications, Central Tech, Finance, People, Real Estate/Workplace/Events/Facilities/Security (REWFS), Strategy & Operations, and Ventures teams. These teams provide the essential operations, services, and strategies needed to support CZI’s progress toward achieving its mission to build a better future for everyone.

The Opportunity

The FP&A team partners closely with leaders across CZI to translate strategy into actionable financial plans, deliver decision-ready insights, and ensure strong financial stewardship.

This FP&A Manager will serve as a key Finance partner across Learning Commons and select Central functions, reporting directly to the Director of Finance, Learning Commons. The role serves as the Finance point of contact for a portfolio of Central teams, while supporting Learning Commons financial execution under Finance leadership.

This position sits at the center of financial execution and business partnership - owning core financial rhythms across Opex, Grants  and People spend (planning, forecasting, reporting, and close support) while ensuring supported teams have a reliable, responsive Finance resource.

This is an ideal opportunity for a seasoned finance professional who is energized by both strong business partnership and leveraging AI and automation to modernize how finance work gets done. You will play a central role in transforming our finance processes -  applying AI-enabled tools, intelligent automation, and systems thinking to drive efficiency, accuracy, and scale across recurring workflows and reporting.

We are looking for someone who is excited to build, optimize, and continuously improve -  not just maintain - the way finance work gets done, and who sees both people relationships and AI as core parts of how modern finance teams operate.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the Finance point of contact for a portfolio of Central functions, ensuring operational leaders have a reliable, responsive Finance resource for their recurring reporting and Finance needs.
• Own day-to-day financial management across Opex and People spend, ensuring accurate tracking, forecasting, and reporting across supported functions.
• Manage budget vs. actuals analysis across operating expenses, grants  and headcount-related spend; proactively identify risks, variances, and emerging trends and surface insights to Finance leadership and business partners.
• Lead annual planning and reforecast cycles, building detailed financial models and partnering with stakeholders to translate operational inputs into structured financial forecasts.
• Lead People cost forecasting, including headcount tracking, new hire modeling, and compensation-related expense management in partnership with business leaders and People teams.
• Drive monthly close activities, including accrual preparation across Opex and reconciliation across systems to ensure data integrity.
• Lead the identification and implementation of AI-driven and automation improvements across recurring finance processes - including accrual workflows, forecast updates, headcount tracking, and reporting packages - with a focus on reducing manual effort, improving accuracy, and building scalable solutions.
• Actively leverage AI tools in day-to-day finance work, from drafting variance narratives and summarizing stakeholder-ready insights to accelerating model builds and streamlining repetitive analytical tasks.
• Build and enhance scalable reporting infrastructure, leveraging Adaptive, Workday, Salesforce, Sheets, and other tools to reduce manual work and improve data transparency.
• Develop dashboards and self-service reporting tools that empower stakeholders and reduce ad hoc requests over time.

What You'll Bring

• 7–10 years of Finance experience, including progressive experience in an FP&A role with demonstrated business partnering responsibilities, ideally within a complex, fast-paced, or growth-oriented organization.
• Proven ability to manage business partner relationships across multiple teams, serving as an organized, reliable Finance resource while also supporting deeper FP&A execution for a primary portfolio.
• Exceptional analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills; thinks critically and connects financial outcomes to operational drivers.
• Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills across business partners and cross-functional stakeholders; able to communicate financial insights clearly and constructively, including to non-finance audiences.
• Strong results orientation and bias to action; self-starter who works independently, demonstrates initiative, flexibility, and maturity under pressure, and effectively manages competing priorities.
• Experience working with Adaptive Planning (or comparable forecasting software), Workday Financials (or similar ERP systems), and Salesforce, with strong proficiency in Google Suite (Sheets, Docs, Slides).
• Demonstrated hands-on experience applying AI tools and automation to finance workflows -  such as using AI assistants to accelerate analysis, drafting, and reporting; building automated data pipelines or recurring reporting; or deploying AI-enabled solutions to improve forecast reliability and process efficiency. Comfort experimenting with and adopting new AI tools as they evolve is essential.
• A forward-looking mindset toward AI in finance: understands how AI is reshaping FP&A and is eager to be at the forefront of that shift -  not just using available tools, but actively identifying where AI can drive the most value across the finance function.

Compensation

The Redwood City, CA base pay range for a new hire in this role is $138,000 - $189,000. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range, enabling employee growth in the range over time. Actual placement in range is based on job-related skills and experience, as evaluated throughout the interview process. 

This position may be eligible to participate in CZI's discretionary annual performance bonus program. Bonus eligibility and targets are determined in accordance with CZI's total rewards philosophy and may vary by role.

Better Together

As we grow, we’re excited to strengthen in-person connections and cultivate a collaborative, team-oriented environment. This role is a hybrid position requiring you to be onsite for at least 60% of the working month, approximately 3 days a week, with specific in-office days determined by the team’s manager. The exact schedule will be at the hiring manager's discretion and communicated during the interview process.

Benefits for the Whole You 

We’re thankful to have an incredible team behind our work. To honor their commitment, we offer a wide range of benefits to support the people who make all we do possible. 

• Provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
• Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice. 
• Funding for select family-forming benefits. 
• Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving

If you’re interested in a role but your previous experience doesn’t perfectly align with each qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect fit for this or another role.