Finance and Strategy Manager
About the position As a Strategic Finance Partner for Supply Chain Operations, you will serve as the financial architect behind our hardware engine. You’ll bridge the gap between complex logistics and executive-level strategy, managing hardware spend while translating operational data into high-impact financial insights. From mastering the monthly close and forecasting cadence to evolving sophisticated COGS and cash flow models, you will ensure our inventory and investment decisions are backed by rigorous analysis. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role where you will partner deeply with Supply Chain and Accounting to drive predictability in areas like warranty, freight, and E&O. By building scalable reporting mechanisms and real-time KPI dashboards, you won't just report on the numbers—you will proactively identify risks and opportunities that shape the future of our unit economics and operational efficiency. This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except Alaska, Austin Metro, Boulder Metro, California, Chicago Metro, Connecticut, Dallas Metro, Denver Metro, Houston Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Seattle Metro, and Washington, D.C.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Supply Chain Operations leaders to manage hardware spend and provide financial insights that inform strategic decisions.
- Lead the monthly/quarterly close and forecasting cadence for Supply Chain Operations (hardware COGS, cash flow, E&O, warranty, and freight), including budget vs. actuals, trend analysis, and exec-ready readouts for operating reviews.
- Own and evolve hardware financial models and reporting (cash flow and COGS amortization), delivering short- and long-range forecasts, variance explanations, and scenario analyses to guide inventory and investment decisions.
- Partner with Accounting and Supply Chain to forecast, track, and explain E&O and warranty, improving assumptions, policies, and controls to increase accuracy and predictability.
- Define, build, and monitor KPIs/dashboards for hardware unit economics, Supply Chain OpEx, and cash flow—highlighting risks/opportunities and driving data-informed actions with business owners.
- Build scalable planning and reporting mechanisms that improve financial visibility and operational decision-making (e.g., standardized drivers, recurring business reviews, and clear ownership of inputs/outputs).
- Champion and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as the team scales globally and across offices
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 4+ years of experience in Corporate Finance / FP&A / Strategic Finance, ideally supporting Supply Chain, or hardware/physical product teams.
- Demonstrated ownership of cash flow / COGS forecasting and variance analysis.
- Experience leading cross-functional finance process improvements with Accounting and Operations (e.g., close process, accruals/reserves, and controls), driving durable change through influence and clear end-to-end ownership.
- Advanced financial modeling/forecasting in Excel or Google Sheets, plus strong problem-solving and stakeholder communication skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with E&O / inventory reserves and/or warranty reserve forecasting (or comparable estimates/reserve ownership).
- Familiarity with ERP/cost accounting systems used for inventory and product cost (Oracle/SAP/NetSuite or similar).
- Strong analytics tooling: SQL and/or BI (Looker/Tableau), and comfort working with large datasets.
- Experience in a hardware/manufacturing ecosystem (OEM/CM, procurement finance, logistics/3PL).
- MBA and/or CPA (or equivalent) a plus.
Benefits
- Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and much, much more.
- Take a look at our Benefits site to learn more.
Apply tot his job Apply To this Job