Manager of FP&A, AlphaSense
$112-154k
3+ days a week in office
Market intelligence and search platform
Be an early applicant
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$112-154k
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organise the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics or relevant degree. MBA or relevant certification (e.g. CFA/CPA) is a plus
- 4+ years of relevant experience in FP&A
- Strong preference for candidates from a consumption-based / usage-based business (e.g. cloud or AI/ML infrastructure, data or content licensing, or usage-billed SaaS) who understand variable cost drivers and how spend scales with consumption
- Solid command of COGS, gross margin, and unit economics
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Capable of communicating complex financial information in an easy-to-understand format
- Strong business partnership experience, with the desire to work cross functionally to drive alignment across the business
- Expert financial modeling skills
- Entrepreneurial self-starter, comfortable with a high level of ownership
- Experience with Adaptive Insights, Salesforce, NetSuite, and visualization tools (Tableau) a plus
What the job involves
- In this highly visible role, you will own the financial modeling and forecasting for AlphaSense's largest and fastest-growing cost centers: the expert transcript library, AI/LLM and royalty infrastructure
- As AlphaSense scales its generative AI capabilities and content universe, these are consumption-driven costs that sit at the heart of gross margin and unit economics
- You will partner closely with Content, Product, Engineering, and Procurement leaders to influence resource allocation and support strategic investment decisions
- The ideal candidate combines expert financial modeling with a strong grasp of variable, usage-based cost structures — and comes from a consumption-based business where they have owned that kind of modeling firsthand
- Lead all forecasting, budgeting, and reporting for content royalties, the expert transcript library, and AI/LLM infrastructure costs
- Build and maintain models for content royalty payments, revenue-share and content-provider commitments, and expert transcript library economics
- Model AI/LLM consumption and inference costs; partner with Procurement and Legal on model-provider contracts, including usage tiers, minimum commitments, and true-up mechanics
- Develop unit economics and gross margin analysis tied to consumption drivers, and reporting on efficiency, capitalization (ASC 350-40), and ROI on new AI features
- Partner cross-functionally to help budget holders understand spend relative to targets and answer key questions on resource allocation and trade-offs
- Assist in the preparation of quarterly financial materials, including internal, Board, and investor reporting packages, with a focus on strategic insights and story-telling
- Contribute to overall improvements across FP&A processes as we drive towards IPO readiness
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain: financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field, AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it has now set its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Jun 2026
$350m
LATE VC
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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