Finance Manager, Engineering

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility. We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Finance Manager, Engineering to partner with Engineering leadership and support the financial operations of Nscale’s global AI compute platform. In this role, you’ll sit within Finance Operations and work closely with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to drive financial planning, cost governance, and performance analysis across a high-investment, fast-paced technical environment. You’ll build and maintain models that support operating expense management, headcount planning, and engineering investment tracking, while bringing visibility to key cost drivers across personnel, infrastructure usage, tooling, and vendor spend. This is a high-impact opportunity to help Nscale scale platform development with discipline and clarity. Your work will inform forecasting, resource allocation, prioritization of engineering investments, and ROI tracking on key initiatives, translating complex technical activity into actionable financial insight that supports smarter decisions across the business.

What you'll be doing:

• Support budgeting, forecasting, and monthly reporting across engineering teams and programs.
• Maintain financial reporting for engineering, including OpEx tracking, headcount, and project-level spend.
• Develop and update financial forecasts covering hiring plans, resource allocation, and initiative timelines.
• Build and maintain financial models to support engineering capacity, productivity, and cost trends.
• Track and report on core KPIs including cost per engineer, engineering productivity, and spend per initiative.
• Support the development of unit economics across engineering investments, including cost per feature, product, or initiative.
• Identify cost efficiency opportunities across headcount, infrastructure usage, tooling, and vendor spend.
• Partner with engineering teams to understand cost drivers, development cycles, and performance trends.
• Contribute to cost optimization and efficiency initiatives through data-driven analysis.
• Build financial models and analysis to support engineering initiatives, product development, and technical investments.
• Support management of engineering budgets by tracking actuals versus plan and highlighting variances.
• Assist in evaluating trade-offs across resource allocation, prioritization, and build vs. buy decisions.
• Track performance against investment assumptions and provide visibility into ROI and impact.
• Support financial evaluation of engineering tools, platforms, and vendor contracts.
• Partner with engineering and procurement to track vendor spend and identify optimization opportunities.
• Monitor usage and cost trends across tooling and infrastructure to promote efficient spend.
• Partner with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to support financial planning and decision-making.
• Translate technical and operational data into clear financial insights for stakeholders.
• Support planning and prioritization of engineering initiatives and resource allocation.
• Produce regular reporting on engineering financial performance, including spend, headcount, and program costs.
• Support cost tracking, budget controls, and governance processes.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency of financial and operational data across systems and reports.

About You

• 5–8 years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or infrastructure/cloud finance roles in a high-growth or top-tier technology company.
• Advanced financial modeling skills, including scenario analysis, sensitivity modeling, and long-range planning.
• Experience owning or materially contributing to forecasting and planning in a complex, usage-based or infrastructure-heavy environment.
• Strong understanding of cost drivers in cloud, compute, or infrastructure systems, including utilization, capacity, and unit cost dynamics.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with engineering or technical teams and influence decision-making.
• Proven track record of turning large, ambiguous datasets into clear recommendations and actionable insights.
• High proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, with experience using SQL and data tools such as Looker or Tableau.
• Experience in AI, GPU cloud, or distributed infrastructure environments is a plus.
• High-ownership, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in ambiguity while building structure where it does not yet exist.
• Credible with technical stakeholders, grounded in first-principles thinking, and biased toward action, accountability, and urgency.

What we can offer you

At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core. Highly competitive compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months. Join one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies — your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed. Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy — always with our full support. Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments. We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there's anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.

Salary Range

The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.