# Head of Strategic Finance

**Company:** [Benchling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/benchling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** FP&A, Financial Modeling, Financial Planning, Forecasting, SaaS Metrics, Revenue Analysis, Gross Margin Analysis, Cash Flow Analysis, Business Cases, Board Reporting, Strategic Finance, Operating Planning
**Posted:** 2026-08-27

> Leads strategic finance, planning, forecasting, and long-range modeling while advising the CFO and executive team on growth, investment, and capital allocation decisions. Requires deep enterprise SaaS expertise, executive communication, and experience building and leading high-performing finance teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead annual planning, forecasting, and long-range financial planning, reporting to the CFO.
- Partner with executives to evaluate priorities, investments, growth opportunities, and tradeoffs.
- Analyze revenue, retention, gross margin, operating leverage, cash flow, and other SaaS performance drivers.
- Build financial models and business cases for products, pricing, go-to-market investments, partnerships, and market expansion.
- Create executive and Board reporting with insights, risks, and recommended actions.
- Establish performance frameworks and operating rhythms connecting company goals, financial plans, and results.
- Partner with Accounting and functional finance leaders to ensure accurate, consistent, decision-useful forecasts and reporting.
- Improve forecasting accuracy, reporting timeliness, and team efficiency as the company scales.
- Lead and develop a high-performing strategic finance team.

## Requirements
- Significant experience in strategic finance, FP&A, or a related finance leadership role in enterprise software or another complex, high-growth business.
- Deep knowledge of SaaS business models and metrics related to growth, retention, and operating efficiency.
- Experience supporting significant company scale, business-model evolution, or preparation for public markets.
- Experience leading company-wide planning, forecasting, and long-range modeling with executives and functional leaders.
- Track record of influencing major business decisions through analysis, judgment, and business acumen.
- Ability to turn complex financial and operational data into concise narratives and recommendations.
- Strong executive communication skills, including presenting to senior leadership and Boards.
- Ability to build cross-functional relationships and challenge assumptions while maintaining trust.
- Experience leading and developing strong teams.
- High integrity, sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and ownership.

## Nice to Have
- Experience at a growth-stage enterprise SaaS company.
- Tech-forward mindset and enthusiasm for using new tools and processes to improve business insight and team experience.

## Work Arrangement
- Flexible hybrid arrangement with on-site work three days per week: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

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