Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Driving FP&A strategy and key top-line performance metrics, this pivotal financial role serves as a strategic engine across corporate planning, ARR forecasting, and executive decision-making. Operating as a direct partner to senior finance leadership, this position translates complex financial mechanics into actionable board-level insights while steering high-impact initiatives across the business.

About the Team

The FP&A team is central to Rapid7's financial success, leading all major financial cycles including the annual budgeting process and long-range strategic planning. The team partners across the organization to ensure financial plans are accurate and aligned with strategic objectives, and its work directly shapes the data-driven recommendations senior leadership and the Board rely on.

As a Manager, FP&A, your primary responsibility will be to drive ARR forecasting excellence, own strategic corporate planning work streams, and execute critical initiatives for the CFO organization. Specifically, your focus will be to:

• Drive end-to-end ARR forecasting models that translate bookings, renewals, expansion, and churn into forward-looking growth visibility.
• Craft the ARR performance narrative, translating complex metrics into actionable insights on growth drivers and retention for executive leadership.
• Execute ARR waterfalls, net and gross retention analyses, cohort modeling, and upside/downside scenario planning to stress-test financial outlooks.
• Direct top-line-adjacent work streams within the annual operating plan, long-range plan, and rolling forecasts to ensure P&L alignment.
• Lead strategic finance initiatives including business case development, competitive market evaluation, M&A diligence, and ad hoc scenario modeling under tight deadlines.
• Build driver-based sensitivity models that evaluate risk-return trade-offs and enable data-driven executive decision-making.
• Partner with Revenue Operations, Sales Leadership, GTM Finance, and Corporate FP&A to establish a single source of truth for all ARR metrics.
• Implement AI-enabled solutions, including active use of tools like Claude, to automate recurring reporting and maximize capacity for strategic work.

• 6+ years of career progression in finance across SaaS environments, investment banking, transaction advisory, or private equity portfolio companies.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel capabilities with a proven track record of building complex, audit-ready financial models from scratch under tight timelines.
• Ability to apply proven experience leveraging Claude or other advanced AI tools to accelerate and elevate financial analysis and analytical workflows.
• Express expert-level mastery of SaaS ARR dynamics, bookings-to-ARR mechanics, net/gross retention metrics, and pipeline conversion models.
• Apply deep foundational knowledge of corporate planning, budgeting processes, long-range forecasting, and strategic scenario modeling.
• Frame ambiguous financial challenges into structured problem-solving frameworks that provide clear executive recommendations.
• Deliver impactful Board-ready communications and establish immediate credibility when presenting complex data to executive stakeholders.
• Break larger strategic goals into manageable execution steps to evaluate progress, adapt approaches, and achieve key top-line objectives.
• Establish commanding ownership across cross-functional planning work streams to ensure continuous alignment and delivery of corporate commitments.
• Build global cross-functional alignment across revenue, operations, and GTM teams to solve complex reporting challenges and drive unified business outcomes.
• Conduct driver-based model analyses to resolve key challenges, integrate…