Elite is the trusted automation platform for law firm operations across most of the world’s largest and most successful law firms. Elite has guided firms through every technology shift and today delivers the only cloud-native SaaS platform that unifies financial, invoice, time, and data management into a single system of action. With embedded AI, predictive analytics, and integrated payments, Elite’s products enable firms to shorten billing cycles, reduce write-offs, and unlock firm-wide insights, making financial operations the foundation for law firm innovation and growth. Learn more at elite.com.
Position Overview
The Senior Finance Business Partner for Product & Technology is a senior strategic finance role responsible for partnering with our Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer as an integral part of their teams to help drive company growth and profitability.
In this role, you will serve as a strategic thought partner to our Product, Engineering, and Technology leadership teams. This role sits at the intersection of finance, product strategy, and cloud economics, with a core mandate to enable disciplined investment decisions, optimize cloud and software margins, and ensure new product initiatives deliver measurable ROI and long-term profitability.
This individual will own financial partnership across the product roadmap— from ideation and business case development through launch, scaling, and postinvestment performance tracking. A critical focus of the role is Microsoft Azure cost management, unit economics, and customer-level cloud margin optimization.
This role is ideal for an analytically minded professional who thrives on analytics, collaboration, and strategic influence across a global SaaS organization.
Work Arrangement: Remote
This role requires the individual to be based in Flexible across U.S. time zones
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary finance partner to Product Management, Engineering, and Technology leaders.
- Support product roadmap planning with rigorous financial analysis, scenario modeling, and investment prioritization.
- Translate product and technology strategy into clear financial outcomes, tradeoffs, and decision frameworks.
- Lead financial evaluation of new product introductions (NPIs), platform investments, and major feature initiatives.
- Develop and review business cases, including TAM assumptions, pricing models, cost structures, and payback analysis.
- Establish and track ROI metrics, ensuring accountability from initial approval through post-launch performance.
- Conduct post-investment reviews to assess variance vs. plan and recommend corrective actions.
- Own financial oversight of Microsoft Azure spend, partnering with Engineering, Cloud Ops, and Security.
- Build and maintain cloud cost models, forecasts, and optimization plans.
- Monitor and analyze consumption drivers (compute, storage, data, networking) and identify cost-efficiency opportunities.
- Support FinOps initiatives, including cost allocation and usage governance.
- Manage customer-level and product-level cloud margins, including COGS attribution and profitability analysis.
- Partner with GTM, Product, and Engineering to improve software gross margin and scalability.
- Analyze pricing, packaging, and usage patterns to ensure margins improve with
- Support strategic decisions around build vs. buy, architecture changes, and platform investments.
- Own product and technology operating forecasts, including headcount, cloud spending, and capitalized development costs.
- Create executive-ready reporting that highlights financial performance, risks, and investment outcomes.
- Provide ad-hoc analysis to support leadership decisions, M&A diligence, and long-range
- Influence stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Cloud, and GTM teams.
- Help establish financial discipline while maintaining speed and innovation.
- Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and company objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field (MBA preferred but not required), or equivalent experience.
- 9–12 years of progressive experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, or Finance Business Partnering roles.
- Extensive experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams in a SaaS, cloud, or technology-driven environment.
- Strong understanding of cloud economics, preferably with firsthand experience managing Microsoft Azure spend.
- Proven experience building and managing business cases, ROI analysis, and unit economics.
- Advanced financial modelling and analytical skills.
- Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly to technical and nonfinancial stakeholders.
- Experience in enterprise SaaS or platform-based technology businesses.
- Familiarity with FinOps practices, cost optimization tools, and cloud billing structures.
- Experience with product capitalization, software COGS, and gross margin analysis.
- Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and fast-moving environments.
- Strong influencing and storytelling skills.
- Deep curiosity about product, technology, and customer value.
- Balance of financial rigor and business pragmatism.
- Ability to travel up <10% as business needs require.
- Role requires the following physical capacity: Sedentary: primarily desk/computer work.
- Must be legally authorized to work in United States; Elite does not provide employment sponsorship for this position.
Benefits:
- Competitive Compensation Package ($155,000 - $172,000 base salary + variable component)
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
- Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Contribution
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Time Off
- Wellness Initiatives
- Employee Assistance Program
- Generous Global Parental Leave
- Calm, free premium subscription
- Employee Discount Program
Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for this position.
Additional Information
At Elite Technology, we embrace an employee-centric, flexible work model that empowers you to do your best work in the environment that suits you. However, we also recognize the importance of in-person collaboration for key moments that truly matter.
In our flexible remote approach, you have the freedom to choose a workspace within your home country that best fits your needs. Our corporate offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, providing additional options for those who prefer or need a hybrid work environment.
Our diverse global team spans the U.S., Canada, U.K., Costa Rica, the Philippines, and Australia. Please note that at this time, we are unable to hire employees located in Quebec or Ontario Provinces, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
We are not accepting applications submitted through recruiting agencies.
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