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Manager of Strategic Finance

Solace · Redwood City, CA · 1 wk ago
FinanceFull-time

About the role

The Manager of Strategic Finance at Solace Healthcare is responsible for maintaining and owning Solace’s operating model and forecasts across various financial metrics including revenue, gross margin, headcount, and operational expenses. They are also involved in monthly reporting, variance analysis, planning support, KPI and unit economics tracking, cross-functional partnership, board and investor readiness, and accounting partnership.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain Solace’s operating model and forecasts across revenue, gross margin, headcount, and opex.
  • Own the monthly performance package, making it clear what changed and why, and what actions should be taken.
  • Play a central role in annual planning and reforecast cycles, gathering inputs, pressure-testing assumptions, building scenarios, and keeping timelines tight.
  • Track and analyze key metrics such as retention, CAC payback, unit economics, spotting trends early, diagnosing problems, and surfacing insights before they become surprises.
  • Work with leaders across Solace to translate initiatives into financial implications, helping teams build budgets that reflect reality and operating plans that match constraints.
  • Support the preparation of board materials and investor reporting, turning analysis into a crisp, defensible, and aligned narrative with the numbers.
  • Partner with internal accountants and outsourced accounting firms to ensure clean close-to-reporting workflows, connecting the close to management reporting to avoid confusion.
  • Bring innovative ideas and bring them to life, being autonomous, taking ownership of your work, sweating details, and ensuring nothing breaks again.

Requirements

A bias toward action and execution, comfort with ambiguity and controlled chaos, strong analytical horsepower, strong communication and cross-functional instincts, a high bar for accuracy and clean thinking, no job too big or too small, 4+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, Investment Banking, Consulting, or a similarly rigorous environment, ideally with exposure to fast-growing businesses and cross-functional operating work. Applicants must be based in the United States.

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