What You Will Do Daily:
- Strategic Business Partnering & Execution
- Serve as the primary financial advisor to the R&D and G&A executive leaders
- Act as a senior "player"—building complex, scalable financial models from scratch while translating R&D and G&A roadmaps back to the Corporate Long-Range Plan (LRP).
- Drive the annual planning and monthly forecasting cycles for all R&D and G&A functions, providing executive-level variance analysis and actionable insights directly to the C-suite.
- Develop and maintain complex financial models across all lines of the P&L to support strategic initiatives, new business opportunities, and scenario planning.
- Support BOD, Investor, Executive-ready presentations, succinctly delivering key messages, and providing in-depth supporting details
- Own the financial strategy for a geographically distributed organization, optimizing headcount planning/hiring ratios
- Partner with Accounting and Engineering to track, model, and forecast software capitalization
- Lead the Cloud FinOps strategy, building frameworks to forecast, optimize, and map LLM/AWS/GCP/Azure costs to product unit economics
- Provide analytical oversight for a high-volume G&A environment (IT, Facilities, Legal, HR), identifying operating leverage opportunities to ensure OPEX scales slower than revenue.
- Streamline the PR approval and vendor management workflows, while maintaining strict spend control.
- Lead, mentor, and orchestrate the day-to-day priorities of shared FP&A analysts through dotted-line relationships. Drive execution and high-quality output through influence rather than direct reporting authority.
- Roll up your sleeves as the business lead for R&D/G&A during our system migration. Lead the evolution of our FP&A capabilities by driving initiatives to enhance automation, efficiency, and data-driven insights within the finance function.
The Experience You Will Need:
- 10+ years of progressive experience in finance, preferably with significant time spent in a high-growth SaaS or tech environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field.
- Expert-level financial modeling skills with the ability to build sophisticated, flexible, and accurate models from the ground up.
- Proven ability to communicate and present complex financial concepts and recommendations clearly to executive-level stakeholders.
- Deep expertise across core FP&A functions, including corporate finance, strategic planning, budgeting, and variance analysis.
- Technical Depth: Deep understanding of software capitalization rules, cloud infrastructure economics, and complex headcount modeling.
- Systems: Elite Excel skills are mandatory. Experience implementing or operating in modern planning tools (Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive) is a major plus.
- A proactive, adaptable mindset, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and rapidly evolving environment.
- Active user of AI tools, with specific knowledge of how to apply within finance workstreams
- MBA from a top-tier program.
- Investment Banking experience.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise-level planning software (e.g., NetSuite and HRIS systems (like BambooHR).
Why You Will Love It Here:
- Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
- Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
- We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
- We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
- As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
- We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.
Benefits of Working with Sonar:
- Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays.
- We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
- Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
- Monthly catered events, and team events
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What We Do
Sonar provides the essential verification layer for the AI-driven development era, ensuring all code—whether human-written or AI-generated—is code you can trust.
Today, AI coding tools are generating explosive volumes of code. This has created an "engineering productivity paradox" : faster code writing doesn't automatically lead to faster, safer software delivery. The new bottleneck is verification.
Sonar solves this. Integrating code quality and code security into a single platform (SonarQube), Sonar delivers deterministic, repeatable, and actionable code verification at scale, analyzing over 750 billion lines of code daily to ensure software is secure, reliable, and maintainable.
For organizations, Sonar provides the critical SDLC governance and compliance reporting needed to de-risk AI adoption and manage standards at scale. We empower teams to "vibe, then verify" — innovating at the speed of AI without sacrificing the quality, security, or maintainability of their codebase.
We are driven by a deep belief in our people, a commitment to excellence, and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Our company culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed, Obsessed, Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity, collaboration, and pride in the work we do.
Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 35 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers worldwide, including Snowflake, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company.
Sonar is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Bochum, Germany; London, Singapore, and Tokyo. The company is rapidly growing with over 750 employees!
Join us in our mission to solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code!
Why Work With Us
We are a product-first company, with a people-first culture. Every employee has the opportunity to grow and learn. We promote from within, provide regular feedback and professional development opportunities, value the right to fail along with respect and kindness and work with team members to achieve their full potential.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
At Sonar, we require employees to come into the office 3 days/week.
