Corporate Finance Manager

About the Role:

Do you want to help guide financial planning, business operations, and strategic decision making at a Forbes Cloud 100 company? Come join the Finance, BizOps & Strategy (FBOS) team at Gusto.

About the Team:

The FBOS team provides financial, operational, and strategic support across the company, with a mission to define and defend the business model while accelerating growth. As part of the Corporate Finance sub team, you'll drive company-wide planning, resource allocation, and reporting. You'll also partner closely with teams across Gusto to improve capital efficiency, manage headcount planning, and use modern tools to automate and scale reporting.

Here's what you'll do day-to-day:

• Corporate Planning & Forecasting. Partner on managing Gusto's business model, supporting strategic planning, forecasting, and resource allocation.
• Management Reporting. Deliver key reporting for the Board of Directors and Executive Team, including KPI tracking and performance-to-plan analyses.
• Business Support. Serve as a finance partner to foundation leaders and collaborate with other finance team members.
• Drive Efficiency and Scale. Continuously improve reporting frameworks, systems, processes, and data governance to create leverage for the FBOS team and support Gusto's growth.
• Headcount Planning & Management. Partner with recruiting, finance, and cross-functional teams to plan and operationalize hiring.

Here's what we're looking for:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in Finance & Strategy or Financial Operations within tech, fintech, or banking.
• Excel expert with the ability to build insightful financial models and analyses, paired with strong critical thinking and sound business judgment.
• Comfortable building new processes and reports in an enterprise financial planning system (e.g., Pigment).
• Familiar with human capital management, financial planning, and data visualization tools (e.g., Workday, Tableau, Redash, Pigment).
• Experience with SQL is a plus.
• Skilled in advanced AI prompting and vibe coding.
• Strong attention to detail with a natural feel for numbers and data, maintaining high accuracy in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders while meeting deadlines.
• Outgoing, thoughtful partner to leaders across the organization.
• Prepared to troubleshoot and diagnose issues to their root cause and recommend solutions.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is between $109,785 - $135,402/year in Denver and $132,765 - $163,744/year for New York/San Francisco. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above. Compensation for this position also includes an equity package and performance bonuses.