Strategic Finance Manager R&D
Blockchain intelligence company providing tools to detect, investigate, and manage crypto-related fraud, financial crime, and compliance for institutions and government agencies.
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About TRM Labs
TRM Labs provides blockchain intelligence for investigations and compliance, offering products such as forensics, wallet screening, entity screening, transaction monitoring, and APIs. It serves financial institutions, crypto businesses, and public sector agencies to trace funds, assess risk, and build cases across digital assets.
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About the Role
You will serve as the finance partner for R&D, working with the CTO and engineering leaders. You will model R&D spending, own planning and forecasting cycles, analyze budget variances, develop cost scenarios, and prepare reporting for resource-allocation decisions.
Requirements
- 5 to 8 years of experience across investment banking, investing, consulting, or finance at a high-growth technology company
- Experience owning monthly, quarterly, and annual planning and reporting cycles end-to-end
- Hands-on experience using AI tools in finance work
- Expert-level Excel and Google Sheets modeling
- Experience building scalable AI-assisted or agentic reporting engines
- Experience supporting technical or product organizations
Responsibilities
- Own the annual operating plan and rolling forecast for R&D
- Partner with engineering leaders on headcount, vendor, and infrastructure assumptions
- Lead the monthly R&D budget-versus-actuals process
- Analyze variances against plan and explain their drivers
- Maintain cloud infrastructure and compute cost models
- Build scenario models for hiring and resourcing decisions
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc analyses
- Inform leadership decisions on resource allocation and prioritization
