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Finance Manager, Headcount Strategy

Meta· Finance
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)$120k - $175kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Finance Manager, Headcount Strategy at Meta responsible for planning, budgeting, and managing the company's headcount as part of financial planning and analysis. Builds and refreshes headcount models, partners with orgs on targets and inputs, translates headcount plans into budgets, tracks vs. budget, analyzes variances, and supports long-range planning and forecasting including dollar-based budgeting.

Responsibilities

  • Build and refresh headcount models across orgs, supporting the Company's headcount plan
  • Serve as a trusted finance partner to assigned orgs, owning the day-to-day relationship with org finance leads on targets, assumptions, and inputs
  • Support the budget planning process, translating headcount plans into dollar budgets
  • Track headcount against budget across hires, attrition, transfers, and open requisitions, surfacing risks and opportunities early
  • Perform variance analysis on headcount and headcount-driven expense, and present the drivers to Finance and business leadership
  • Contribute to close, forecast, budget, and long-range planning cycles, enhancing Meta's headcount and corporate models
  • Query, consolidate, and validate large headcount and compensation datasets, building scalable analyses that leaders can act on
  • Develop tools and KPIs that automate headcount reporting and help partners make smart fiscal decisions
  • Partner across Finance, HR/People Ops, Compensation, Recruiting, and Accounting to validate headcount data, reconcile expense, and improve planning tools, acting as the primary point of contact for headcount questions in your area

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of finance or financial planning and analysis experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a relevant field
  • Experience with headcount, workforce, or capacity planning and the budgeting behind it
  • Experience building dynamic models in Excel or Google Sheets, with proficiency in data analysis tools
  • Experience querying, reconciling, and validating large datasets from multiple systems
  • Familiarity with accounting concepts and financial planning
  • Experience owning stakeholder relationships and influencing cross-functional partners without direct authority
  • Experience synthesizing complex data into concise narratives for cross-functional partners, and shifting priorities against tight deadlines

Skills

Required:Headcount modelingBudgeting and forecastingData analysis and large dataset handlingCommunication and stakeholder management

Benefits

  • Benefits information provided by Meta in posting
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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