Senior Manager, FP&A
Camunda
Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Camunda is open worldwide, so South Africans can apply. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
Camunda isthe enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinateAI agents, people, and systemsacross complex, end-to-end business processes. With built-in governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda gives enterprises the control they need to move AI from pilots to production — safely and at scale.Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide, including 9 of top 10 US banks, Camunda helps enterprises boost operational efficiency, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver better customer experiences.Fully remote and global,we are in the middle of something bigger:transforming into an AI-first organisation, built on our own platform. We use Agentic AI to automate, orchestrate intelligent processes, and elevate human contribution across every team.NamedGP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list,2025 Great Place to Work certified.Visionaryin2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. ranked3rd in Flexa's 2026Most Flexible Companies, We’re growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team.If you want meaningful work, visible impact and put something genuinely rare on your CV, keep reading.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Manager, FP&A to be the finance business partner to our Corporate or GTM organization. You will own the overall or GTM P&Ls and build the driver-based models behind some of the most consequential questions in SaaS finance today: what is the right plan, where we should invest, and make course corrections. You will partner directly with our Senior Leadership Team on investment decisions, headcount, and unit economics, and manage and develop a Senior Financial Analyst. You will join our global Finance team, report to the VP of FP&A, and work alongside the other FP&A leads - with scope that will grow as Camunda does.
What you'll be doing:
* Business Partnership:Serve as the primary finance partner to SLT, supporting decisions on hiring, investment prioritization, and resource allocation
Business Partnership:Serve as the primary finance partner to SLT, supporting decisions on hiring, investment prioritization, and resource allocation
* P&L Ownership:Own the P&Ls end to end — budgeting, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and the "what changed, why it matters, what we do next" narrative for leadership.
P&L Ownership:Own the P&Ls end to end — budgeting, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and the "what changed, why it matters, what we do next" narrative for leadership.
* Financial Modeling:Build and continuously improve driver-based models, such as the long-range plan, bookings model, and ad hoc analyses.
Financial Modeling:Build and continuously improve driver-based models, such as the long-range plan, bookings model, and ad hoc analyses.
* Planning & Forecasting:Lead planning cadences (annual, quarterly, monthly outlooks) and integrate business partners' inputs into the corporate forecast alongside our FP&A leads.
Planning & Forecasting:Lead planning cadences (annual, quarterly, monthly outlooks) and integrate business partners' inputs into the corporate forecast alongside our FP&A leads.
* Team Leadership:Manage and develop one Senior Financial Analyst, setting priorities and raising the bar on quality and speed of analysis.
Team Leadership:Manage and develop one Senior Financial Analyst, setting priorities and raising the bar on quality and speed of analysis.
* Systems & Automation:Own Adaptive Planning administration and maintenance, and drive AI-augmented workflows that make FP&A faster and more scalable.
Systems & Automation:Own Adaptive Planning administration and maintenance, and drive AI-augmented workflows that make FP&A faster and more scalable.
What you bring:
* Ability and/or willingness to useour product.
Ability and/or willingness to useour product.
* 6+ years of progressive FP&A or strategic finance experience, including directly partnering with C-Level, and/or CRO/CMO
6+ years of progressive FP&A or strategic finance experience, including directly partnering with C-Level, and/or CRO/CMO
* Direct people management experience (you've hired, coached, and managed the performance of finance team members, not just mentored or led projects)
Direct people management experience (you've hired, coached, and managed the performance of finance team members, not just mentored or led projects)
* Deep fluency in SaaS cost structures and unit economics — cloud/hosting costs, CoGS vs. OpEx, gross margin drivers — with proven driver-based modeling skills (forecasting from usage and consumption drivers, not trending actuals)
Deep fluency in SaaS cost structures and unit economics — cloud/hosting costs, CoGS vs. OpEx, gross margin drivers — with proven driver-based modeling skills (forecasting from usage and consumption drivers, not trending actuals)
* Hands-on experience building in an enterprise planning platform (Adaptive, Anaplan, Pigment, Planful, or similar) plus advanced spreadsheet skills — w
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About Camunda
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