Finance Business Partner, R&D

WHO WE ARE

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkpYpWfEK5s. We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work feels faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion.

Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, humanity, and building things that last — not just shipping the next feature, but setting a standard for how modern teams (with humans and agents working together) think and execute.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our Strategic Finance Business Partnership team serves as a trusted advisor to the company, driving our financial planning, forecasting, and review processes, and guiding critical decisions through insightful analyses and strategic thought partnership. We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Business Partner to support our R&D (EPD) organization and own the finance relationship with our CTO and Co-founder/CPO.

This is a high-impact role on a lean team: you’ll operate independently, bring structure to ambiguous problems, and influence senior leaders with clear financial narratives. You’ll partner deeply across Engineering, Product, and Design leadership to strengthen executive-level visibility into financial performance, improve forecast accuracy, and evaluate strategic investments across our product and platform roadmap.

WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE

- Serve as the primary strategic finance partner to the CTO and CPO for EPD planning, forecasting, reporting, and key decision-making. Build trusted relationships with EPD leads and proactively surface insights, risks, and opportunities.

- Build financial models to evaluate investment opportunities and strategic initiatives (e.g., vendor and tooling decisions, infrastructure spend).

- Develop and refine scalable reporting and analytical frameworks to increase transparency and decision velocity, and guide day-to-day execution and strategy.

- Prepare high-quality materials for executive and Board-level reviews, translating complex financial and operational information into clear, concise narratives.

- Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate and timely reporting, provide clear narratives for variances, and translate results into actionable recommendations for executives and functional leaders.

- Drive process improvements through AI and automation to streamline workflows and strengthen planning discipline, forecasting accuracy, and cross-functional alignment.

- Execute ad hoc analyses for executive requests and time-sensitive decisions with strong judgment, speed, and attention to detail.

SKILLS YOU'LL NEED TO BRING

- 6+ years of progressive experience in FP&A/Strategic Finance, investment banking, accounting, private equity, or a combination; experience directly supporting technical organizations (R&D) strongly preferr