Strategic Finance
Speak · San Francisco Bay Area · 3 wk ago
HybridFinance$150/hrFull-time
About the role
The Strategic Finance Lead will partner with business leaders across the company to drive growth, surface insight, and shape investment decisions. This is a high-impact role on a lean team, operating independently, bringing structure to ambiguous problems, and influencing senior leaders with clear financial narratives.
Responsibilities
- Develop financial models and economic frameworks to enable product vision and strategy
- Evaluate strategic product investments and enable strategic tradeoff decisions
- Own the financial strategy and analysis for new product development
- Build unit economics by segment, vertical, and motion to inform pricing, packaging, and where we lean in
- Support capital allocation decisions by evaluating returns on product investments, pricing changes, and operational initiatives
- Partner with go-to-market leadership to drive sales motions across all distribution channels, including global tiered consumer and enterprise channels
- Provide strategic guidance and insight to drive end-to-end long-range planning, including assumptions, scenarios, pressure-testing, and executive storytelling
- Surface insights to leadership by translating data into recommendations that shape product and company strategy
- Synthesize complex analyses into clear narratives and confidently communicate recommendations to leadership and executive stakeholders
- Advance financial reporting processes by leaning into AI tools and workflows and enhancing dashboards
Requirements
- 6–9 years in strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or a comparable analytical role — with prior startup or high-growth tech experience strongly preferred
- Advanced financial modeling skills to drive forecasting, scenario analysis, sensitivity tables, and the ability to build clean, auditable models from scratch with incomplete or complex data
- Direct experience supporting full planning cycles including long range planning, annual planning, quarterly re-forecasts, and board / investor-facing materials
- Familiarity with outcomes-based modeling and product-led growth
- Fluency in SaaS and enterprise metrics to enable go-to-market motions
- Strong written communication in order to provide clear narratives to leadership and external stakeholders
- High ownership and high integrity, able to run processes end to end with agency and autonomy
Qualifications
- Advanced degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
- Experience with financial modeling software such as Excel, Tableau, or similar tools
- Proven track record of success in a high-growth environment
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Flexible work schedule
- Health insurance benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Work-life balance
Pay
- Competitive salary and equity package
Schedule
- Full-time