Senior Manager, FP&A – Mexico COE

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• About Delinea: Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime,
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• Delinea is investing in building a Mexico-based FP&A Center of Excellence, and we’re looking for a Senior Manager to lead it. As the founding leader of this function, you will build and run Delinea’s company-wide headcount and expense reporting operations — establishing a scalable, automation-first FP&A hub that delivers high-quality financial intelligence to business leaders across Product, G&A, and GTM.
• Reporting to the Senior Director, Finance, you will own end-to-end headcount planning, company-wide expense budget vs. actual analysis, and the data governance and process infrastructure that underpins Delinea’s financial reporting. Over time, you will recruit and develop a small team of Mexico-based analysts, setting the standard for rigor, quality, and continuous improvement in everything the CoE produces.
• This is a high-ownership, highly visible role for someone who brings deep FP&A expertise, a builder’s mindset, and genuine enthusiasm for leveraging AI and automation to drive scale. If you’re energized by the opportunity to build something from the ground up — and to leave your fingerprints on how a finance organization operates at IPO scale — this role is for you.
• This role will work hybrid (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) in our Mexico City - Reforma location.
• Headcount Planning & Reporting
• Own the end-to-end headcount planning process: annual budget, quarterly re-forecasts, and monthly actuals — covering all cost centers across the company.
• Consolidate and publish monthly, quarterly, and annual headcount reports integrating data across HR and financial planning systems, maintaining a single, auditable source of truth.
• Partner with HR and business leaders to align workforce plans with strategic and financial constraints, tracking hiring against budget and flagging risks proactively.
• Monitor headcount cost-to-revenue ratios and model the P&L impact of hiring decisions, scenario changes, and timing shifts.
• Deliver timely, high-quality HC insights to operational leaders across Product, G&A, and GTM so they can make informed workforce decisions.
• Expense Budget vs. Actual Analysis
• Own company-wide spend planning and reporting across all cost centers, producing accurate and timely budget vs. actual analyses each period.
• Partner with each FP&A pillar (Product, G&A, GTM) to deliver expense deliverables and variance commentary that enable faster business decisions.
• Identify and clearly communicate spending variances, trends, and root causes to FP&A leadership and operational partners.
• Maintain and improve the expense reporting infrastructure, driving model accuracy, automation, and faster close cycles.
• Support Corporate FP&A on consolidated HC and spend views that feed the overall P&L and financial statements.
• Data Integrity, Controls & Process Excellence
• Ensure data integrity and governance across HR and financial planning system integrations for all HC and spend data, owning data quality end-to-end.
• Build and maintain audit-ready workflows for every CoE process, with clear controls documentation aligned to IPO-readiness standards.
• Develop SOPs and playbooks for every HC and spend process so that operations are standardized, transferable, and resilient to team changes.
• Identify and lead opportunities to automate repetitive workflows — leveraging AI tools, planning system automation, and scripting to reduce manual effort and increase throughput across the CoE.
• Actively apply AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT) as a practitioner — using them to accelerate analysis, improve output quality, draft variance commentary, and streamline reporting processes.
• Champion a culture of continuous process improvement: always asking how the CoE can deliver the same or better output with less manual effort.
• Team Leadership & CoE Development
• Recruit, onboard, and develop a small team of Mexico-based FP&A analysts with structured 30/60/90-day plans focused on HC and spend operations.
• Create clear career paths and growth tracks for CoE team members, establishing a culture of rigor, ownership, and accountability.
• Build bench depth through cross-training and documented backups for every HC and spend process, ensuring resilience and no single point of failure.
• Set a high bar for quality: implement quality gates on every deliverable before it leaves the CoE, ensuring outputs are accurate, clear, and decision-ready.
• Experience
• 8+ years of progressive FP&A experience , with a focus on headcount planning and/or expense management in a global company (technology company preferred).
• 3+ years of direct people management experience , with a demonstrated ability to develop analysts and build high-performing teams.
• Experience owning FP&A processes end-to-end — planning, reporting, variance analysis, and close support — across multiple cost centers simultaneously.
• Track record of building or improving FP&A processes, SOPs, and financial controls — ideally in a high-growth, IPO-preparing, or public-company environment.
• Experience working closely with HR on headcount planning and workforce data, including familiarity with HRIS and financial planning system integrations.
• Skills & Capabilities
• Strong financial modeling capability; advanced Excel proficiency required.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a quality-first mindset — you take pride in delivering outputs that are accurate, clear, and audit-ready.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish; comfortable presenting findings to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Highly analytical problem-solver: comfortable handling large datasets, identifying trends, and translating numbers into clear, actionable narratives.
• Active user of AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) to accelerate analysis, automate routine tasks, and improve the quality and speed of FP&A deliverables. We expect this person to be a practitioner — not just curious about AI, but actively applying it as part of their daily workflow.
• Builder’s mindset: energized by creating structure, documenting processes, and scaling operations — not just maintaining them.
• Collaborative and low-ego working style; able to build trust across Finance, HR, and operational partners across multiple time zones.
• Experience with ERP or accounting systems (e.g., NetSuite) and close partnering with Accounting for month-end.
• Nice to Haves
• Experience with Workday (HRIS) and Adaptive Insights, including familiarity with HC-to-finance data flows and integration governance.
• Familiarity with data and BI tools (e.g., Power BI) and/or basic SQL for querying financial or headcount data.
• Experience supporting or preparing for an IPO, audit process, or SOX compliance environment.
• Exposure to AI-driven process automation, RPA tools, or scripting (Python, VBA) in a finance context.
• Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field required.
• MBA, CPA, CPC, or equivalent advanced degree a plus.
• We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.
• We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.
• What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.
• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do
• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments
• Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team