Financial Planning & Strategy
This role partners with AI infrastructure and product teams to build financial models that drive capital allocation, pricing, and capacity decisions in fast-scaling AI companies. Unlike pure FP&A analysts focused on general company planning, these professionals develop deep expertise in domain-specific unit economics—whether AI compute costs, inference pricing, data center operations, or power generation—and translate complex technical and operational realities into executive decision frameworks. They typically sit within dedicated finance teams embedded across infrastructure, product, or commercial functions, working closely with engineering and operations leaders to balance growth velocity against financial discipline in capital-intensive, rapidly evolving environments.
Measured across 123 of 125 open postings.
This role is advertised at 4 levels, so a single figure for the role would describe none of them. Experience and pay are the midpoints for each level on its own.
| Level | Share | Median years | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 25%(31) | 5 | $202k |
| Senior | 33%(40) | 7 | $215k |
| Manager | 14%(17) | 6 | — |
| Director | 17%(21) | 9 | $293k |
A dash means too few postings stated it to report a midpoint. Most companies do not publish a salary band, so pay is indicative rather than a market rate. 4 levels with fewer than 10 open postings are not shown.
“Influence Figma Finance's AI adoption strategy, defining how AI can be embedded into systems and workflows”
“AI-fluency including analysis, insight generation, process automation and improvement.”
“using AI, automation, and stronger data workflows to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and surface insights faster”
“Automation Through AI: Lead end-to-end efforts to enhance and automate financial processes and systems with AI tooling”
Requirements are a share of every open posting, so a role missing from this list is one where almost nobody asks. Work mode is different: many postings never say, so that figure counts only the ones that do. A posting stops being advertised when it is filled, cancelled or reorganised, so read the last figure as how long these stay on the market, not as time to hire.
Share of new postings expecting AI in the person's own work, by the week they appeared. Measured on the same 124 companies throughout, every one of them tracked since 18 May, so the line is not moved by us adding companies.
Line is a four-week average; dots are individual weeks, 9 postings each on average. Weekly values span 57 points across this window, so read the line, not the gap between two dots.
Skills
What companies are looking for in this role.
Planning, budgeting and forecasting
Budget control and financial modeling
Business insight analysis
Unit economics and pricing analysis
Close and consolidation
Deal structuring and negotiation
Marketing and GTM measurement and attribution
Go-to-market & monetization strategy
Analytics data modeling
Process design and improvement
Capital markets and financing
SQL query development
Financial and usage data modeling
AI compute cost economics
Financial systems implementation
AI-enabled finance automation
Cross-functional collaboration
Executive financial communication
Technical team leadership and mentoring
Executive data storytelling
Technology
The tools and technologies that define this role.
Open Jobs
125 open Financial Planning & Strategy jobs across 47 companies.
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