Director, Strategic Finance - Corporate FP&A
Lead corporate FP&A for a newly public AI chip company, owning planning, forecasting, G&A partnering, Board and investor reporting, and building scalable financial infrastructure and decision-ready KPIs.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own company-wide corporate FP&A, including the company model, long-range and annual planning, monthly forecasting, revenue forecasting, G&A budgeting, headcount, spend management, Board reporting, and public-company reporting support.
- Build corporate FP&A infrastructure for a newly public company: planning, forecasting, reporting, guidance support, and G&A spend visibility.
- Develop decision-quality KPI and reporting architecture including scorecards, dashboards, recurring reviews, and narratives.
- Create financial models with clean inputs, stress-tested assumptions, clear outputs, and documented logic.
- Establish a world-class business partnership motion delivering true insight rather than spreadsheet help.
- Build mechanisms that turn messy business inputs into repeatable processes including forecasting cadences, metric definitions, reconciliation paths, and accountability loops.
- Implement automation and tooling including structured data pulls, workflow automation, and pragmatic AI use.
- Maintain public-company-ready operating rhythms with clean close-to-insight timelines and durable definitions.
What You Will Own
- G&A business partnering: Serve as primary finance partner to G&A leadership for budgeting, headcount planning, spend management, and strategic investment decisions.
- Corporate planning: Own and improve forecasting, budgeting, annual planning, long-range planning, scenario planning, and performance reporting.
- Revenue forecasting: Own the company revenue forecast and partner with Sales and Product to build accurate projections and variance insights.
- Executive, Board, and investor reporting: Prepare and deliver financial reporting, insights, and commentary.
- KPIs and dashboards: Develop and refine KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, and analytical frameworks that highlight trends and guide decisions.
- Capital allocation and systems: Conduct analysis to support investment decisions and drive improvements in financial systems, AI-enabled workflows, and data quality.
Requirements
- 15+ years of total experience across corporate FP&A, strategic finance, or adjacent roles.
- Corporate FP&A leadership experience, ideally in a public-company or newly public environment.
- Strong financial modeling skills with ability to build from scratch, pressure-test assumptions, and defend outputs.
- Proven G&A and executive-facing partnership experience.
- Player-coach systems thinker with experience building or raising the bar for small, talent-dense teams.
- High agency: operate in ambiguity, close loops, and bring pattern recognition.
- Clear executive communication skills for distilling complexity into concise narratives.
- Technical fluency with Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, Python, AI tools, and planning or BI tooling (preferred).
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in hardware, semiconductor, infrastructure, or complex businesses with sophisticated revenue and spend planning.
- Time at a public, newly public, or high-growth company navigating rapid scale and public-company planning rhythms.
- Experience with performance management, scorecards, dashboarding, and operating leverage analysis.
- Fluency with planning, ERP, and BI systems (e.g., NetSuite, Oracle).
Skills
Financial Modeling, FP&A, Budgeting, Forecasting, Revenue Forecasting, Kpi Development, Dashboarding, Executive Reporting, SQL, Python
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