Vice President, Strategic Finance (R&D, Procurement & Corporate Model)

Responsibilities

• Become deeply familiar with AiDASH's products (IVMS, CRIS, AIMS, and BNGAI), R&D organization and sprint cadence, infrastructure footprint, Schneider Electric integration, financial model, and strategic priorities
• Build trusted finance partnership with R&D leadership by joining sprint-close cadences and establishing monthly workstream reviews with GTM and Delivery
• Own R&D financial management, including capitalization policy, department-level cost visibility, AI initiative ROI, and build-versus-buy analysis
• Partner with R&D leadership to evaluate roadmap trade-offs, investment priorities, and resource allocation
• Partner with R&D on launch economics across the product portfolio, including business cases, pricing and packaging strategy, and post-launch revenue performance
• Track sales readiness, delivery commitments, and roadmap execution to ensure launches convert into ARR on schedule
• Monitor roadmap slippage with R&D leadership and key delivery risks, escalating issues and recommendations to the executive team
• Partner with R&D on commercial strategy for cloud, infrastructure, imagery, and strategic technology vendors, ensuring scalable economics as the business grows and developing and achieving BoM down targets
• Negotiate long-term infrastructure and platform commitments that improve unit economics, aligning to Company Gross Margin targets, and support future scale with the R&D team
• Manage infrastructure COGS as a strategic operating metric, delivering measurable savings while improving gross margin
• Own the corporate driver-based model and quarterly reforecast, enabling disciplined capital allocation, operating expense decisions, and scenario planning
• Lead headcount and requisition governance, maintaining a single source of truth for approved, open, and frozen roles while ensuring AI automation is evaluated before incremental hiring
• Own the R&D financial narrative for the CFO and CEO, translating complex operating performance into clear business insights, strategic recommendations, and forward-looking perspectives
• Support Lead finance support for the Schneider Electric integration, including synergy tracking, operating model alignment, reporting harmonization, day-one readiness, and continuity of the planning cycle through close

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A leadership, corporate development, investment banking, private equity, or related investment roles, with meaningful experience in high-growth enterprise SaaS or data-intensive product companies
• Proven operator in cloud, infrastructure, or data cost management, with a track record of negotiating commercial agreements that delivered measurable savings
• Proven track record building driver-based operating models that guide investment decisions, forecasting, and company planning
• Strong executive communication skills, with experience developing Board, investor, and executive-level presentations
• Exceptional analytical and process design skills, with the ability to improve productivity, predictability, scalability, and operational rigor
• Fluent in AI-enabled finance workflows with an automation-first mindset; SQL or Python experience is a plus
• Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, or complex cross-functional transformation initiatives is strongly preferred; experience supporting global operations (US, India, UK) is a plus
• Comfortable challenging assumptions and influencing the executive team through data, sound judgment, and thoughtful debate, while aligning fully behind decisions once made
• Founder mentality with high ownership, unquestionable integrity, and a roll-up-your-sleeves approach