Finance Manager, Headcount Strategy

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

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

Experience building data visualizations and dashboards to support financial reporting

SQL or similar data querying experience

Familiarity with HR/headcount and payroll data systems (Workday, ADP), or Oracle EPM and similar financial planning systems

Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

MBA or graduate degree in a relevant field

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

Experience supporting headcount or workforce planning at a large, complex company

Experience with compensation or stock-based compensation modeling

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies