Head of Business Partnership Finance

ABOUT US:

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Lead a high-performing Business Partnership (BP) Finance team delivering strategic partnership and financial leadership to business units. Act as the primary finance liaison to department heads and senior leadership, guiding planning, forecasting, and decision-making. Transform financial data into actionable insights that influence go‑to‑market strategies, investment decisions, and profitability improvements. We are a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately.

WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE:

- Provide finance support across GTM, R&D, and G&A expense and headcount management. Lead coordination & improvements of monthly Budget vs Actuals (BvA) reviews and other opportunities to build financial maturity. Elevate finance's strategic voice through a collaborative mindset.

- Drive improved forecast accuracy, alignment, and collaborative strategic decision making as a part of ad hoc and recurring finance processes including monthly close, reforecasts, planning, long-range planning, and other critical Expense & Headcount forecasting processes and reporting.

- Support our monthly close and forecast processes - analyze financial results, distill and synthesize key trends, and communicate risks & opportunities to influence business outcomes. Assist in preparation of monthly & quarterly management reporting including Budget vs Actuals analyses and dashboards.

- Drive deeper Budget vs Actuals understanding and forecast precision via smarter, more data-driven modeling and tighter cross-functional partnership, particularly in uncharted, high impact areas.

- Tackle new & evolving priorities for the team. Conduct ad hoc modeling (e.g. pricing, cost-benefit, investment cases). Translate data into narratives that guide leadership decisions.

- Strengthen our operational infrastructure by identifying process improvements. Build automation to take steps out of our recurring motions and reduce margin of error.

- Coach and mentor talented existed team to develop both technical and partnership capabilities. Grow the team as part of our operational excellence journey.

SKILLS YOU'LL NEED TO BRING:

- ~10-15 years experience in Business Partnership FP&A and other finance roles

- Proven leadership managing business partnership FP&A teams and executive relationships

- Ability to translate complex financial data into strategic narratives. Excellent communication: able to articulate financial insights to non-finance leaders

- Demonstrate intellectual curiosity, problem-solving skills, and hunger to continually up-level current approaches and processes

- Strong work ethic, reliability, and attention to detail. Willingness to roll up their sleeves with the team - “get it done” attitude

NICE TO HAVES:

- Experience with a high-growth SaaS company

- Experience with Netsuite, Workday, Zip, and planning tools

- Experience with usage-based pricing and cost structure

- You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $240,000- $280,000 per year.

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