Finance Manager, Headcount Strategy

The FP&A team manages Meta's entire budget of revenue and expenses, overseeing our investments in headcount, operating expenses, and capital investments. We use our view into the numbers to recognize trends and opportunities developing within Meta and related industries.

Meta is seeking to fill a position on the Headcount Strategy team, responsible for planning, budgeting, and managing the Company's headcount as part of financial planning and analysis. This role reports to the Headcount Strategy lead.

You will support core pieces of the Company's headcount plan and budget, from allocating targets, to tracking hiring against budget, to analyzing variances and their dollar impact. You will serve as a trusted finance partner to the orgs you support, build the models behind workforce planning decisions, and contribute to budgeting, long range planning, and forecasting, including our transition to dollar-based budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Build and refresh headcount models across orgs, supporting the Company's headcount plan
• Serve as a trusted finance partner to assigned orgs, owning the day-to-day relationship with org finance leads on targets, assumptions, and inputs
• Support the budget planning process, translating headcount plans into dollar budgets
• Track headcount against budget across hires, attrition, transfers, and open requisitions, surfacing risks and opportunities early
• Perform variance analysis on headcount and headcount-driven expense, and present the drivers to Finance and business leadership
• Contribute to close, forecast, budget, and long-range planning cycles, enhancing Meta's headcount and corporate models
• Query, consolidate, and validate large headcount and compensation datasets, building scalable analyses that leaders can act on
• Develop tools and KPIs that automate headcount reporting and help partners make smart fiscal decisions
• Partner across Finance, HR/People Ops, Compensation, Recruiting, and Accounting to validate headcount data, reconcile expense, and improve planning tools, acting as the primary point of contact for headcount questions in your area

Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years of finance or financial planning and analysis experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a relevant field
• Experience with headcount, workforce, or capacity planning and the budgeting behind it
• Experience building dynamic models in Excel or Google Sheets, with proficiency in data analysis tools
• Experience querying, reconciling, and validating large datasets from multiple systems
• Familiarity with accounting concepts and financial planning
• Experience owning stakeholder relationships and influencing cross-functional partners without direct authority
• Experience synthesizing complex data into concise narratives for cross-functional partners, and shifting priorities against tight deadlines Experience building data visualizations and dashboards to support financial reporting
• SQL or similar data querying experience
• Familiarity with HR/headcount and payroll data systems (Workday, ADP), or Oracle EPM and similar financial planning systems
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• MBA or graduate degree in a relevant field
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience supporting headcount or workforce planning at a large, complex company
• Experience with compensation or stock-based compensation modeling
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building data visualizations and dashboards to support financial reporting
• SQL or similar data querying experience
• Familiarity with HR/headcount and payroll data systems (Workday, ADP), or Oracle EPM and similar financial planning systems
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• MBA or graduate degree in a relevant field
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience supporting headcount or workforce planning at a large, complex company
• Experience with compensation or stock-based compensation modeling
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies