Who you are

- 8+ years in FP&A; / corporate finance, with meaningful time supporting R&D;, Engineering, or a technical/product org

- Deep comfort with SaaS and AI/usage-based economics: CoR, gross margin, unit economics, and how infrastructure/inference cost drives them

- Strong SQL (BigQuery a major plus) and expert Excel/Sheets modeling, with clean, maintainable model architecture

- Strong grasp of how R&D; spend flows through the P&L;

- Ability to be a genuine partner to technical leaders, holding substantive conversations with engineering or ML leads to translate technical work into financial views

- Precise, low-ego, self-directed, and concise work ethic

- Nice to have: Experience at a high-growth AI/ML company, familiarity with contemporary data stacks, contract negotiation experience, people management experience, and CPA/CA/CFA

- Nice to have: Familiarity with a modern data stack (dbt, EPMs) and building repeatable, auditable finance pipelines

What the job involves

- The Director of FP&A;, R&D; acts as the strategic finance partner to Engineering, Product, and Data/ML leadership, owning the R&D; operating plan and establishing LLM economics as a fundamental financial discipline

- This role manages the P&L; for R&D; headcount and Cost of Revenue (CoR) for AI in production, driving efficiency through direct engagement with our data stack (BigQuery/dbt)

- Partner day to day with engineering, product, and data leaders as their trusted finance counterpart

- Build the analyses that shape build-vs-buy, pricing, and infrastructure decisions





- Support foundation-model and cloud vendor negotiations with data-backed positions

- Deliver clear, concise reporting and variance commentary to the CFO, FP&A; leadership, and the board

- Own the R&D; budget, forecast, and headcount plan across Engineering, Product, and Data/ML. Drive the re-forecast cycle and keep hiring plans tied to output and priorities

- Make LLM/inference and cloud compute cost a first-class, closely monitored metric. Build the model that tracks unit costs; monitor spend daily; and partner with engineering to find and defend efficiency. This is not a monthly-close afterthought, it's a core operating metric of the business

- Own the connection between usage, inference cost, and gross margin. Model the margin impact of new products, pricing changes, and model/infrastructure choices, and make the tradeoffs legible to leadership

- Bring financial rigor to major R&D; spend decisions including foundation-model and API contracts, cloud commitments, data, and dev tooling, including negotiation support and ROI cases

Benefits

- Flexible working hours to match your style

- Offsites - get to meet your coworkers on a fully-expenses trip ever 6-12 months
- A variety of virtual team events such as game nights & happy hours

- Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your family

- Flexible paid time off and 10+ holidays per year
- A stipend to upgrade your home office for fully-remote roles

- 401k for US-based employees

📌 Director of FP&A, R&D (Toronto)
🏢 EvenUp
📍 Toronto