# Sr. Director, Strategic Finance
**Company:** [GoHighLevel](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gohighlevel)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $242K-$306K
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** FP&A, Financial Modeling, Anaplan, Adaptive Insights, Business Intelligence, AI Tools, SaaS Metrics, Unit Economics, Strategic Planning, Forecasting
**Posted:** 2026-06-24
> Lead R&D and GTM FP&A functions, providing strategic financial insights, building models, and advising senior leaders on investment decisions at a high-growth tech company.
## Job Description
## What You Will Do

### Functional Ownership (R&D & GTM)
- Lead our R&D and GTM FP&A functions, play a central role in defining how the team partners across the organization and act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders to influence + quantify key business decisions

### Strategic Planning & Forecasting
- Develop, own and improve the process of defining the business impact of key R&D and GTM investments, providing connectivity between requisite investments, operational objectives, and financial targets

### Decision Support
- Partner with senior R&D and GTM leaders to provide financial insights and scenario analysis supporting strategic initiatives, resource allocation, and investment decisions by leveraging an in-depth understanding of market dynamics, unit economics, and growth strategies

### Business Case Development
- Build robust operational + financial models for major projects to help teams quantify ROI and trade-offs between driving growth and profitability

### Cross-functional Collaboration
- Lead cross-departmental financial projects and drive alignment between R&D and GTM on budgeting, resource planning, and strategic goals

### KPI Development & Tracking
- Define and track key performance indicators / productivity metrics across R&D and GTM functions and lead performance measurement initiatives to drive accountability and transparency

### Team and Culture Building
- Hire, mentor and guide other finance team members, fostering a high-performance, collaborative and data-driven culture. Architect scalable team structures, workflows, and governance models that support business growth while maintaining a high degree of quality

### AI-enabled Process Improvement
- Identify and spearhead opportunities to leverage AI-based tools to streamline existing processes, forecasting, and other ad-hoc analyses

## What You Bring

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field (MBA, CFA, CA, or equivalent advanced qualification in Finance, Economics, or Business.)
- 15+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, investment banking, private equity, or corporate strategy at a high-growth tech company, with at least 5+ years of leadership / management experience; public company experience is a plus
- Extraordinary ability to storytell with data / analysis and distill complex topics and tradeoffs into a simple framework to influence decision making; exceptional communication and presentation skills; experience interfacing with executive teams, board members, and investors
- Excellent business partnering skills, with both financial and non-financial leaders; track record of advising operational and financial improvements across multiple areas in the business
- Willingness and ability to operate at multiple levels - deep within the details and big picture - with strong awareness of when to leverage each to achieve a targeted outcome
- Advanced modeling skills, including strong understanding of bottoms-up financial modeling and tying together unit economics to the overall business impact
- Deep understanding of SaaS and usage-based business models and metrics; experience in the SMB market is a plus
- Ability to jump into ambiguous questions or situations, identify the key variables and drive toward a successful outcome
- Possess a bias toward action, strong work ethic, and player-coach mentality with experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
- Advanced experience with financial planning tools (e.g. Anaplan, Adaptive Insights, etc.), AI tools, and BI tools; Track record of using AI to improve forecasting methodologies or drive process improvements
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