Lead Finance Business Partner (Services & Value Engineering)

The role

You will act as a strategic advisor to Services and Value Engineering leadership. You will own financial modeling, delivery economics, and operational metrics to drive gross margin, utilization, and value-selling efficiency.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary financial co-pilot to Services and Value Engineering leadership
• Own Gross Margin modeling for the Services and Value Engineering organizations
• Evaluate the financial impact and ROI of headcount additions, tools, and strategic initiatives
• Partner with leadership to optimize capacity and utilization models
• Lead annual budgeting and monthly forecasting cycles for headcount, program spend, and variable compensation
• Partner with Services leadership to forecast professional services revenue recognition
• Define, track, and analyze critical operational and financial metrics

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance
• At least 5 years specifically supporting Services organizations at a B2B SaaS or technology company
• 5+ years experience working with executive leadership aligning operational execution with financial impacts
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a quantitative field
• Deep understanding of SaaS unit economics, revenue recognition rules
• Elite Excel/financial modeling skills
• Ability to build complex, dynamic capacity and utilization models from scratch
• Experience with enterprise tools such as Pigment, Salesforce and Workday

Nice to have

• MBA
• CFA

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants
• 24 weeks of fully paid leave for primary carers
• 12 weeks for supporting carers
• Unlimited PTO in applicable regions
• Generous PTO globally
• Flexible hybrid work model
• 70-20-10 learning framework, mentorship programs, and access to a dedicated learning platform
• Subsidized Wellhub memberships
• Mental health counseling
• Wellness Weeks
• Paid time off to volunteer for community and environmental causes
• Inclusion Think Tank and annual Inclusion Days

About the company

Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.