Finance Manager, Engineering

TL;DR

Finance Manager, Engineering (FP&A/Cloud Finance): Partner with engineering leadership to support financial operations for Nscale’s global AI compute platform with an accent on cost governance, forecasting, and performance analysis in a high-investment technical environment. Focus on building financial models for OpEx, headcount planning, initiative tracking, and ROI measurement while translating complex infrastructure and engineering activity into actionable financial insight.

Location: London

Company

Nscale provides cost-effective, high-performance GPU cloud infrastructure for AI start-ups and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Support budgeting, forecasting, and monthly reporting across engineering teams and programs.
• Maintain engineering financial reporting, including OpEx tracking, headcount, and project-level spend.
• Develop and update financial forecasts for hiring plans, resource allocation, and initiative timelines.
• Build and maintain models for engineering capacity, productivity, and cost trends; track KPIs such as cost per engineer and spend per initiative.
• Support unit economics across engineering investments (e.g., cost per feature/product/initiative) and identify cost efficiency opportunities.
• Track actuals vs plan, highlight variances, evaluate build-vs-buy trade-offs, and report ROI/impact; support financial evaluation of tools, platforms, and vendor contracts.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or infrastructure/cloud finance roles in a high-growth or top-tier technology company.
• Advanced financial modeling skills, including scenario analysis, sensitivity modeling, and long-range planning.
• Experience owning or materially contributing to forecasting and planning in a complex, usage-based or infrastructure-heavy environment.
• Strong understanding of cloud/compute/infrastructure cost drivers (utilization, capacity, unit cost dynamics).
• High proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets; experience using SQL and data tools such as Looker or Tableau.
• Ability to partner with engineering/technical teams and turn ambiguous datasets into clear, actionable recommendations.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive, and innovation-driven environment.
• Highly competitive compensation package (base + bonus + equity) with performance reviews every 12 months.
• Flexible workplace with autonomy to shape the workday.
• Dynamic progression plan with support for cross-functional initiatives and capital strategy.