Finance Manager, Headcount Strategy
**Summary:**
The FP&A team manages Meta's entire budget of revenue and expenses, overseeing our investments in headcount, operating expenses, and capital investments. We use our view into the numbers to recognize trends and opportunities developing within Meta and related industries.Meta is seeking to fill a position on the Headcount Strategy team, responsible for planning, budgeting, and managing the Company's headcount as part of financial planning and analysis. This role reports to the Headcount Strategy lead.You will support core pieces of the Company's headcount plan and budget, from allocating targets, to tracking hiring against budget, to analyzing variances and their dollar impact. You will serve as a trusted finance partner to the orgs you support, build the models behind workforce planning decisions, and contribute to budgeting, long range planning, and forecasting, including our transition to dollar-based budgeting.
**Required Skills:**
Finance Manager, Headcount Strategy Responsibilities:
1. Build and refresh headcount models across orgs, supporting the Company's headcount plan
2. Serve as a trusted finance partner to assigned orgs, owning the day-to-day relationship with org finance leads on targets, assumptions, and inputs
3. Support the budget planning process, translating headcount plans into dollar budgets
4. Track headcount against budget across hires, attrition, transfers, and open requisitions, surfacing risks and opportunities early
5. Perform variance analysis on headcount and headcount-driven expense, and present the drivers to Finance and business leadership
6. Contribute to close, forecast, budget, and long-range planning cycles, enhancing Meta's headcount and corporate models
7. Query, consolidate, and validate large headcount and compensation datasets, building scalable analyses that leaders can act on
8. Develop tools and KPIs that automate headcount reporting and help partners make smart fiscal decisions
9. Partner across Finance, HR/People Ops, Compensation, Recruiting, and Accounting to validate headcount data, reconcile expense, and improve planning tools, acting as the primary point of contact for headcount questions in your area
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
10. 7+ years of finance or financial planning and analysis experience
11. Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a relevant field
12. Experience with headcount, workforce, or capacity planning and the budgeting behind it
13. Experience building dynamic models in Excel or Google Sheets, with proficiency in data analysis tools
14. Experience querying, reconciling, and validating large datasets from multiple systems
15. Familiarity with accounting concepts and financial planning
16. Experience owning stakeholder relationships and influencing cross-functional partners without direct authority
17. Experience synthesizing complex data into concise narratives for cross-functional partners, and shifting priorities against tight deadlines
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
18. Experience building data visualizations and dashboards to support financial reporting
19. SQL or similar data querying experience
20. Familiarity with HR/headcount and payroll data systems (Workday, ADP), or Oracle EPM and similar financial planning systems
21. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
22. MBA or graduate degree in a relevant field
23. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
24. Experience supporting headcount or workforce planning at a large, complex company
25. Experience with compensation or stock-based compensation modeling
26. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
27. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
**Public Compensation:**
$120,000/year to $175,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
**Industry:** Internet
**Equal Opportunity:**
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.
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