Finance Manager - Product/Revenue & Margin

The role

This person will shape financial strategy for product roadmaps and manufacturing operations. They will own product margin and revenue forecasting and build business cases for R&D investment decisions.

What you will do

• Develop the annual and long-range plan for revenue and margin.
• Own the product margin forecast and support Marketing and Sales in optimizing revenue forecast.
• Identify and resolve risks to revenue and margin projections with Department VPs.
• Partner with Accounting to reconcile actual to forecast costs and develop cost metrics.
• Lead the monthly budget-to-actual process and own the Quarterly Revised Forecast.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Operations to develop and prioritize business metrics.
• Build financial models and business cases for R&D investment decisions.
• Perform ad hoc margin analysis, ROI, and forecasts.
• Build expertise in products, customers, sales pipeline, and cost structure.
• Serve as the financial partner to Taiwan-based operations counterparts.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• 8+ years in a strategic finance role in FP&A or strategic finance supporting semiconductor manufacturing or operations specifically
• Demonstrated product cost/margin exposure in chip or hardware manufacturing
• Has built and owned forecast models end-to-end
• Track record of business cases and ROI analyses that influenced real business decisions
• Experience building R&D investment business cases, including ROI, payback period, and sensitivity analysis
• Strong business partnering skills
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
• Detail-oriented, analytical mindset

Nice to have

• MBA

Before you apply

• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer
• We do not sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas (now or in the future) for this role
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills, verifiable via a modeling exercise or portfolio walkthrough

About the company

Ambiq is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere by powering the AI edge revolution with low-power semiconductor solutions. Since 2010, they have shipped over 300 million units to customers building wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.