About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.
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Summary:
Delinea is investing in building a Mexico-based FP&A Center of Excellence, and we’re looking for a Senior Manager to lead it. As the founding leader of this function, you will build and run Delinea’s company-wide headcount and expense reporting operations — establishing a scalable, automation-first FP&A hub that delivers high-quality financial intelligence to business leaders across Product, G&A, and GTM.
Reporting to the Senior Director, Finance, you will own end-to-end headcount planning, company-wide expense budget vs. actual analysis, and the data governance and process infrastructure that underpins Delinea’s financial reporting. Over time, you will recruit and develop a small team of Mexico-based analysts, setting the standard for rigor, quality, and continuous improvement in everything the CoE produces.
This is a high-ownership, highly visible role for someone who brings deep FP&A expertise, a builder’s mindset, and genuine enthusiasm for leveraging AI and automation to drive scale. If you’re energized by the opportunity to build something from the ground up — and to leave your fingerprints on how a finance organization operates at IPO scale — this role is for you.
This role will work hybrid (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) in our Mexico City - Reforma location.
What You’ll Do:
Headcount Planning & Reporting
Own the end-to-end headcount planning process: annual budget, quarterly re-forecasts, and monthly actuals — covering all cost centers across the company.
Consolidate and publish monthly, quarterly, and annual headcount reports integrating data across HR and financial planning systems, maintaining a single, auditable source of truth.
Partner with HR and business leaders to align workforce plans with strategic and financial constraints, tracking hiring against budget and flagging risks proactively.
Monitor headcount cost-to-revenue ratios and model the P&L impact of hiring decisions, scenario changes, and timing shifts.
Deliver timely, high-quality HC insights to operational leaders across Product, G&A, and GTM so they can make informed workforce decisions.
Expense Budget vs. Actual Analysis
Own company-wide spend planning and reporting across all cost centers, producing accurate and timely budget vs. actual analyses each period.
Partner with each FP&A pillar (Product, G&A, GTM) to deliver expense deliverables and variance commentary that enable faster business decisions.
Identify and clearly communicate spending variances, trends, and root causes to FP&A leadership and operational partners.
Maintain and improve the expense reporting infrastructure, driving model accuracy, automation, and faster close cycles.
Support Corporate FP&A on consolidated HC and spend views that feed the overall P&L and financial statements.
Data Integrity, Controls & Process Excellence
Ensure data integrity and governance across HR and financial planning system integrations for all HC and spend data, owning data quality end-to-end.
Build and maintain audit-ready workflows for every CoE process, with clear controls documentation aligned to IPO-readiness standards.
Develop SOPs and playbooks for every HC and spend process so that operations are standardized, transferable, and resilient to team changes.
Identify and lead opportunities to automate repetitive workflows — leveraging AI tools, planning system automation, and scripting to reduce manual effort and increase throughput across the CoE.
Actively apply AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT) as a practitioner — using them to accelerate analysis, improve output quality, draft variance commentary, and streamline reporting processes.
Champion a culture of continuous process improvement: always asking how the CoE can deliver the same or better output with less manual effort.
Team Leadership & CoE Development
Recruit, onboard, and develop a small team of Mexico-based FP&A analysts with structured 30/60/90-day plans focused on HC and spend operations.
Create clear career paths and growth tracks for CoE team members, establishing a culture of rigor, ownership, and accountability.
Build bench depth through cross-training and documented backups for every HC and spend process, ensuring resilience and no single point of failure.
Set a high bar for quality: implement quality gates on every deliverable before it leaves the CoE, ensuring outputs are accurate, clear, and decision-ready.
What You’ll Bring:
Experience
8+ years of progressive FP&A experience, with a focus on headcount planning and/or expense management in a global company (technology company preferred).
3+ years of direct people management experience, with a demonstrated ability to develop analysts and build high-performing teams.
Experience owning FP&A processes end-to-end — planning, reporting, variance analysis, and close support — across multiple cost centers simultaneously.
Track record of building or improving FP&A processes, SOPs, and financial controls — ideally in a high-growth, IPO-preparing, or public-company environment.
Experience working closely with HR on headcount planning and workforce data, including familiarity with HRIS and financial planning system integrations.
Skills & Capabilities
Strong financial modeling capability; advanced Excel proficiency required.
Exceptional attention to detail and a quality-first mindset — you take pride in delivering outputs that are accurate, clear, and audit-ready.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish; comfortable presenting findings to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
Highly analytical problem-solver: comfortable handling large datasets, identifying trends, and translating numbers into clear, actionable narratives.
Active user of AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) to accelerate analysis, automate routine tasks, and improve the quality and speed of FP&A deliverables. We expect this person to be a practitioner — not just curious about AI, but actively applying it as part of their daily workflow.
Builder’s mindset: energized by creating structure, documenting processes, and scaling operations — not just maintaining them.
Collaborative and low-ego working style; able to build trust across Finance, HR, and operational partners across multiple time zones.
Experience with ERP or accounting systems (e.g., NetSuite) and close partnering with Accounting for month-end.
Nice to Haves
Experience with Workday (HRIS) and Adaptive Insights, including familiarity with HC-to-finance data flows and integration governance.
Familiarity with data and BI tools (e.g., Power BI) and/or basic SQL for querying financial or headcount data.
Experience supporting or preparing for an IPO, audit process, or SOX compliance environment.
Exposure to AI-driven process automation, RPA tools, or scripting (Python, VBA) in a finance context.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field required.
MBA, CPA, CPC, or equivalent advanced degree a plus.
Why work at Delinea?
We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.
We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.
What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.
At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:
Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do
Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments
Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team
Ownership - We take initiative and follow through
Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment
Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes
We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.
We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.
Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.
