Job Details

Overview

Head of Business Partnership Finance at Notion — lead a high-performing Business Partnership (BP) Finance team delivering strategic financial leadership to business units. Act as the primary finance liaison to department heads and senior leadership, guiding planning, forecasting, and decision-making. Transform financial data into actionable insights that influence go-to-market strategies, investment decisions, and profitability improvements. We are a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately.

About Notion: Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life's work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money. In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

What You'll Do

• Provide finance support across GTM, R&D, and G&A expense and headcount management. Lead coordination and improvements of monthly Budget vs Actuals (BvA) reviews and other opportunities to build financial maturity. Elevate finance's strategic voice through a collaborative mindset.
• Drive improved forecast accuracy, alignment, and collaborative strategic decision making as part of ad hoc and recurring finance processes including monthly close, reforecasts, planning, long-range planning, and other critical expense and headcount forecasting processes and reporting.
• Support monthly close and forecast processes — analyze financial results, distill and synthesize key trends, and communicate risks and opportunities to influence business outcomes. Assist in preparation of monthly and quarterly management reporting including Budget vs Actuals analyses and dashboards.
• Drive deeper Budget vs Actuals understanding and forecast precision via smarter, data-driven modeling and tighter cross-functional partnership, particularly in high-impact, uncharted areas.
• Tackle new and evolving priorities for the team. Conduct ad hoc modeling (e.g., pricing, cost-benefit, investment cases). Translate data into narratives that guide leadership decisions.
• Strengthen operational infrastructure by identifying process improvements and building automation to reduce recurring motions and margin of error.
• Coach and mentor team members to develop technical and partnership capabilities and grow the team as part of the operational excellence journey.

Qualifications

• Approximately 10–15 years of experience in Business Partnership FP&A and related finance roles.
• Proven leadership in managing BP FP&A teams and executive relationships.
• Ability to translate complex financial data into strategic narratives. Excellent communication — able to articulate financial insights to non-finance leaders.
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity, problem-solving skills, and a drive to continually improve approaches and processes.
• Strong work ethic, reliability, attention to detail, and a hands-on, collaborative approach.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with a high-growth SaaS company.
• Experience with Netsuite, Workday, Zip, and planning tools.
• Experience with usage-based pricing and cost structure.

Notion is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Notion provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to offering highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on location, scope, complexity, and candidate experience. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range is provided in job postings where applicable.