Finance & Business Operations Manager, WhatsApp

WhatsApp's mission is to connect the world privately. More than 3 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends and family, anytime and anywhere. WhatsApp is free and offers simple, secure, reliable messaging and calling, available on phones all over the world.

Finance and Business Planning is a highly mission-driven organization. Our mission is to enable Meta to plan, prioritize, and execute as effectively as possible. We are financial advisers to our business partners, helping them solve their toughest challenges and operate with an independent and objective perspective.

We take a uniquely long-term view towards our businesses, and our teams own shared business goals and results with our partners.

We're looking for a finance manager to support the full financial picture for WhatsApp. This is a visible and integral role across the organization - directly supporting business leaders across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Monetization.

You will support decisions around nascent product bets and resource allocation, expense management, and prioritization across a full range of planning, strategic decision-making, and forecasting. You'll engage daily with business leaders, and act as both a financial business partner and strategic advisor to the leadership team.

An ideal candidate will be interested in the WhatsApp product, have experience working with business leaders on monetization and investment decisions, have a demonstrated interest in data and technology, and be able to self-direct highly ambiguous and strategic projects. This role will offer you the opportunity to understand and contribute to many facets of business and product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Become an integral part of the org's strategy and planning processes
• Own end-to-end partnerships with a broad range of Product leads
• Drive nuanced ROI and impact frameworks across headcount, opex and capacity investments
• Own day-to-day operational tasks related to budget management
• Perform strategic / ad-hoc business analysis as required
• Champion independent viewpoints across WhatsApp and Meta Finance leadership
• Collaborate with horizontal Financial Planning & Analysis teams to improve and operationalize processes related to headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in finance, strategic finance, business strategy, product analytics, or related professional experience in managing strategic investments and strategies
• B.A. or B.S. in Business, Finance, Economics, Math, Statistics, or a related discipline
• Experience with financial leadership across headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
• Experience synthesizing strategic insights and problem-solving individually or in a group setting
• Experience in communicating, influencing, and building relationships with business leaders
• Experience independently managing projects from scoping through delivery, including tracking details and maintaining organized documentation, and experience prioritizing competing work streams based on impact, deadlines, and stakeholder needs Experience supporting financial planning during periods of rapid organizational or product growth
• Experience in data analytics, developing code, and/or forecasting (SQL, Python, R)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience working at a leading technology, internet or high growth company