Strategic Finance Manager

Department: Finance Locations: Amsterdam, London Job Requisition ID: JR001805 Apply now

Table of contents

• About the Team
• About the Role
• What you’ll do
• What you’ll need
• What's in it for you
• About Miro
• Apply

About the Team

The Strategic Finance team at Miro exists to turn data into decisions. We sit at the intersection of finance, strategy, and operations – partnering with leaders across the company to set ambitious targets, pressure-test big bets, and find the smartest places to invest the next dollar. We combine external market signal with deep internal analysis to help Miro grow faster, smarter, and more efficiently. Within Strategic Finance, the R&D pillar is the financial brain trust for one of Miro's largest and fastest-evolving cost centers. As AI reshapes how products are built and operated, R&D investment decisions — from headcount and tooling to model selection and cloud commit strategy — have never carried more weight. We're building a function that doesn't just report on R&D spend but actively shapes where it goes.

About the Role

We are looking for a Strategic Finance Manager, R&D to be the dedicated finance partner to our R&D leadership team. This role is designed for someone who is equal parts strategist, analyst, and operator — comfortable building a forecast model from a blank sheet in the morning and challenging an SVP on the ROI of a roadmap bet in the afternoon. You'll own the financial story of R&D end to end: headcount planning across a global engineering and product organization, software and vendor spend, and our rapidly growing AI and cloud infrastructure cost base. You'll bring rigor to how we prioritize investments, build the unit economics that explain how our AI products actually make (and cost) money, and partner with R&D leaders to systematically optimize where every dollar lands. You'll also be one of the first finance hires expected to use AI in the work itself – automating repetitive analysis, accelerating model builds, and turning hours of manual reporting into minutes. You see a noisy spreadsheet as an opportunity, not a chore. You believe great finance partnering is built on credibility with non-finance stakeholders. And you're genuinely curious about how modern AI products are built, scaled, and paid for. This is a hybrid role based in our Amsterdam hub.

What you’ll do

• R&D Financial Planning & Forecasting: Own the end-to-end planning, forecasting, and monthly close commentary for R&D, including headcount, software, and AI/cloud infrastructure spend, with a high bar for forecast accuracy and clear executive narratives
• Headcount Strategy & Workforce Planning: Partner with R&D leadership and People Operations to model and manage one of the company's largest headcount footprints — building hiring plans, location strategies, and capacity scenarios that balance velocity with discipline
• AI Cost Strategy & Optimization: Build the unit-economics models that explain our AI cost base (cost per active user, per feature, per inference) and lead cross-functional initiatives with R&D, Procurement, and Infrastructure to drive measurable reductions in unit cost without slowing the roadmap
• Investment Cases & Strategic Decision Support: Build the financial cases behind major R&D bets — build-vs-buy on AI tooling, model and provider selection, infrastructure commits, and large product investments — and bring a clear recommendation, not just analysis
• AI-Powered Finance Operations: Act as one of Strategic Finance's leading voices on how to use AI to do our own job better, identifying and prototyping opportunities to automate variance analysis, reporting,and modeling workflows
• Executive Reporting & Stakeholder Partnership: Prepare board ELT,and operating-review materials that translate complex R&D economics into clear stories,and act as trusted finance counterpart to R&D Stream Leads day-to-day

What you’ll need

• 5+ years in strategy/management consulting investment banking strategic FP&A BizOps or corporate strategy ideally with exposure to high-growth SaaS or cloud-native business
• Advanced financial modeling skills (forecasting scenario analysis unit economics cohort analysis)and ability triangulate insights across messy multi-source data
• Demonstrated experience partnering with senior technical stakeholders (engineering product infrastructure leaders)and influencing decisions without authority
• Strong interest in — ideally hands-on familiarity with — AI/cloud cost dynamics using AI tools make finance work faster better
• Exceptional communication skills: you can take complex financial topic turn one-pager SVP can act on
• Bias action comfort ambiguity; frame problem yourself before solving it
• Familiarity SaaS business models subscription revenue dynamics

What's in it for you

We want you feel supported connected ready grow Our global benefits package generally includes equity wellbeing benefit WFH equipment allowance annual Learning Development stipend Join diverse team where you can do your best work Full benefits may differ per location If would like learn more about location-specific benefits please refer our Global Miro benefits board.

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About Miro

Miro visual workspace innovation enables distributed teams any size build next big thing platform's infinite canvas enables teams lead engaging workshops meetings design products brainstorm ideas,and more Miro co-headquartered San Francisco Amsterdam serves more than 100M users;250K companies collaborate Innovation Workspace Founded 2011 currently has more than1.6K employees13 hubs worldwide. We team dreamers dream big work hard stay humble Collaboration core; teamwork create supportive welcoming innovative environment striving daily improvement. Check out more about life at Miro:

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