# Strategic Finance Manager

**Company:** [Decagon](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/decagon)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $180k – $225k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, Excel, Google Sheets, SQL, BI Tools, Unit Economics, KPIs, Dashboards, Arr, Financial Planning Tools
**Posted:** 2026-03-02

> Owns financial planning, modeling, and strategic decision-making at a high-growth AI company. Partners with executives on capital allocation, KPIs, and board materials. Requires 3-5 years strategic finance experience and expert modeling skills.

## Job Description

### In this role, you will
- Own our quarterly and annual planning cycle end-to-end, guiding overall company strategy, resource allocation, and decision-making
- Build and own our financial model and unit economics framework
- Partner cross-functionally with executives across key functions to ideate, support, and drive strategic initiatives
- Drive accountability across the business by defining financial and operational KPIs, building dashboards, and identifying the right levers to accelerate growth and efficiency
- Monitor key performance indicators, financial metrics, and cash flow; deliver timely reporting packages and insights on key business trends
- Build and maintain complex financial models for long-range planning, unit economics, business cases, and investment evaluation
- Own materials for our Board meetings and serve as a key partner on future fundraising processes
- Develop and build a scalable finance function that can support Decagon's hyper-growth

### Your background looks something like this
- 3-5 years of experience in Strategic Finance, Corporate Finance, or a closely related role at a high-growth technology company
- 1–2 years of investment banking at a top-tier firm
- Expert financial modeling skills — you can build from scratch, stress-test assumptions, and translate outputs into clear business narratives
- Strong analytical instincts and the ability to distill complexity into structured frameworks and actionable recommendations
- Excellent communication skills; comfortable presenting to leadership
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority — you can get alignment across teams who don't report to you
- High ownership mentality — you take initiative, drive projects to completion, and hold yourself to a high bar
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities can shift quickly
- Proficiency in Google Sheets / Excel; experience with SQL or BI tools a strong plus

### Even better
- Experience working in B2B SaaS with familiarity with ARR-based business metrics
- Familiarity with Accounting ERPs and financial planning tools
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related business field

**Compensation** $180,000 - $225,000 + Equity

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