Director, Strategic Finance - Corporate FP&A

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).