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Finance Manager, FP&A & AI Transformation

Fountain

Accounting & Finance, Software Engineering, Data Science

San Francisco, CA, USA

Posted on Oct 27, 2026

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We’re looking for a Finance Manager who understands FP&A and wants to help build an AI-native, agentic finance function. You’ll own core FP&A responsibilities while designing, building, and deploying AI agents and automated workflows across finance to eliminate manual work and improve reporting and decision-making.

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