Director, Strategic Finance - Corporate FP&A

About the role

This role is a front-row seat in a company at the leading edge of AI compute. You will create the corporate FP&A operating system for the company: long-range planning, annual planning, forecasting, executive reporting, guidance support, and SG&A business partnering that keeps decision-ready insight flowing as the company scales.

Responsibilities

• Ownership: Company-wide corporate FP&A, including owning the company model, leading long-range and annual planning, monthly forecasting, revenue forecasting, G&A budgeting, headcount, spend management, Board reporting, and public-company reporting support.
• Operating model: Player-coach on a flat, high-standards team. You bring a track record of building talent-dense teams, use technology to multiply output, and set the bar by staying close to the work.
• Success definition: FP&A is the center of context for the organization. The team will deliver investor-grade information to the right partners at the right time.

What You Will Build

• Corporate FP&A infrastructure for a newly public company: planning, forecasting, reporting, guidance support, and G&A spend visibility.
• A decision-quality KPI and reporting architecture: scorecards, dashboards, recurring reviews, and crisp narratives that leadership and investors trust.
• Financial models leaders can use: clean inputs, stress-tested assumptions, clear outputs, and documented logic across planning, budgeting, forecasts, and guidance support.
• A world-class business partnership motion: business leaders rely on the FP&A team for insight. We deliver true partnership, not spreadsheet help.
• Automation and tooling that compounds output for a small, talent-dense team, including structured data pulls, workflow automation, and pragmatic AI use.
• Public-company-ready operating rhythms: clean close-to-insight timelines, clear ownership, guidance support, and durable definitions that scale with scrutiny.

What You Will Own

• G&A business partnering: Serve as the primary finance partner to G&A leadership. Bring structure, speed, and judgment to budgeting, headcount planning, spend management, and strategic investment decisions.
• Corporate planning: Own and continuously improve forecasting, budgeting, annual planning, long-range planning, scenario planning, and performance reporting across the company.
• Revenue forecasting: Own the company revenue forecast and partner closely with Sales and Product to build accurate, data-driven projections, variance insights, and guidance support.
• Executive, Board, and investor reporting: Prepare and deliver financial reporting, insights, and commentary for executive leadership, the Board, investors, and public-market processes.
• KPIs and dashboards: Develop and refine KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, and analytical frameworks that highlight trends, track operating leverage, and guide leadership decisions.
• Capital allocation and systems: Conduct analysis to support investment decisions and long-term planning, and drive improvements in financial systems, AI-enabled workflows, tools, and data quality.

What Success Looks Like in the First 6 to 12 Months

• Earn the trust of leadership by delivering the right insights at the right time in the right way.
• G&A leaders and executives proactively pull you into decisions because your work improves outcomes, not just visibility.
• Durable insight assets are live (dashboards, forecast packs, KPI definitions, Board-ready and investor-ready reporting) with a clear cadence and single-source-of-truth inputs.
• The long-range plan, annual operating plan, and monthly forecast process run smoothly, with scenario levers leadership uses for decisions, guidance support, and operating tradeoffs.
• G&A spend and headcount visibility improve through better planning discipline, reducing surprises and improving decision quality.
• The revenue forecast and variance process are credible, timely, and actionable, with clear ownership and repeatable guidance-support inputs.
• You have improved the system: fewer manual consolidations, fewer one-off analyses, and more AI-enabled mechanisms that keep the business informed as scale increases.

What We Are Looking For

• We are hiring for judgment, agency, systems thinking, and player-coach leadership. You know what great FP&A looks like, build what the business needs next, and bring others along.
• 15+ years of total experience (rough guide), ideally across corporate FP&A, strategic finance, or adjacent roles.
• We are open to proven Directors and VP-level leaders seeking a high-slope public-company platform.
• Corporate FP&A leadership experience, ideally in a public-company or newly public environment, or training from a comparably rigorous analytical setting.
• You have seen excellent FP&A up close and can raise the bar quickly.
• Strong financial modeling skills. You can build from scratch, pressure-test assumptions, and defend outputs with clarity.
• Proven G&A and executive-facing partnership. You earn trust by being fast, right, and useful, then scale that trust through repeatable mechanisms.
• Player-coach systems thinker. You have built or raised the bar for small, talent-dense teams and can build infrastructure that works as pace increases and data gets messy.
• Clear executive communication. You distill complexity into concise narratives, perform grounded root-cause analysis, and influence decisions.
• Technical fluency beyond spreadsheets (preferred). Comfortable with Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, Python, AI tools, and planning or BI tooling.

Ways to Stand Out

• Experience in hardware, semiconductor, infrastructure, or other complex businesses with sophisticated revenue and spend planning.
• Time at a public, newly public, or high-growth company navigating rapid scale, guidance support, and public-company planning rhythms.
• Experience with performance management, scorecards, dashboarding, and operating leverage analysis.
• Fluency with planning, ERP, and BI systems (for example NetSuite, Oracle, or Looker) and the practical reality of integrating finance processes across functions.
• Strong AI affinity: you apply modern tools to automate work, accelerate analysis, raise quality, and extend small-team output.