Director, Strategic Finance & FP&A

RADAR•San Francisco, CA

2d•$190,000 - $250,000

About The Position

This is a high-impact, high-visibility finance leadership role at a pivotal stage of RADAR's growth reporting directly to the CFO. As Director, Strategic Finance & FP&A, you will own the company's financial planning, forecasting, and modeling infrastructure while serving as a trusted strategic partner to the CFO and executive team. You will help allocate capital wisely, sharpen the company's financial story, and drive the rigor that enables confident, fast decision-making across a complex, hardware-software business. This is not a seat-warming role. You'll operate with a high degree of autonomy, build processes from the ground up, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with every function in the company. You should thrive in ambiguity, bring a bias for action, and have the intellectual horsepower to learn a technically complex, operationally demanding business quickly. This is also a role with a clear growth path — as RADAR scales, you'll have the opportunity to build and lead a high-performing finance team, shaping not just the company’s financial strategy but the function as a whole.

Requirements

8+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, or a combination thereof
Track record in a high-growth, venture-backed technology company — ideally hardware/software or operationally complex environments
Demonstrated ability to own FP&A end to end: annual planning, budgeting, rolling forecasts, and reforecast cycles
Expert financial modeler — can build dynamic, scalable, driver-based models from scratch with no hand-holding
Strong analytical and quantitative skills; comfortable working in large, complex data sets
Outstanding oral and written communicator — able to tell the story behind the numbers for both technical and non-technical audiences
Experience preparing board packages and executive-level financial materials
High agency, high ownership mindset — a self-starter who does not wait to be told what to do
Operates effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments; adapts quickly without losing rigor
Low ego, collaborative, coachable — a true team player who builds trust across functions
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field

Nice To Haves

Experience at a hardware + software company with meaningful COGS complexity and supply chain financial dynamics
A background in investment banking or consulting prior to operating role experience
Experience supporting or participating in fundraising processes (Series C and beyond)
Familiarity with NetSuite and FP&A planning tools
Proficiency in SQL or BI tools (Looker, Tableau) for self-serve data analysis
AI-proficient and enthusiastic about testing and adopting new tools to upgrade FP&A workflows
Experience building out or managing a small finance team

Responsibilities

Own FP&A end to end — build and manage annual planning, rolling forecasts, and reforecasting cadences that keep the company oriented to what matters most.
Maintain and continuously improve the company's dynamic, driver-based financial model; ensure it scales as the business grows in complexity.
Develop and own department-level budgets in partnership with functional leaders; track actuals vs. plan with clear variance analysis and commentary.
Build and own KPI and operating metric frameworks; ensure the right data reaches the right stakeholders at the right time.
Lead monthly and quarterly business reviews, translating financial performance into clear, actionable insight for the leadership team.
Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CEO and CFO; frame major decisions — investment priorities, go-to-market bets, resource deployment — with rigorous financial analysis.
Drive ROI-focused capital allocation thinking across the business; help the leadership team make confident, outcomes-oriented investment decisions.
Lead scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis to support strategic planning cycles, new initiatives, and potential pivots.
Support fundraising and investor relations activity, including board package preparation, investor materials, and financial narrative development.
Assist with M&A, partnership, and other strategic transaction analysis as needed.
Act as a proactive, embedded finance partner to every major function — Product, Engineering, Operations, Sales, Customer Success — bringing financial rigor to operational decisions, owning monthly business review processes and Budget vs. Actual variance analyses that drive accountability and informed decision-making across the organization.
Help refine pricing models, unit economics frameworks, and cost structure analyses that inform product and commercial strategy.
Lead ad hoc analysis on the company's most critical questions; move from ambiguous ask to clear, actionable insight quickly.
Support hardware and software COGS analysis, gross margin optimization, and supply chain financial modeling unique to RADAR's operationally complex business.
Own the preparation of board packages, investor updates, and management reporting — ensuring they tell a clear, compelling financial story.
Manage the company model with discipline, maintaining a single source of financial truth the organization can rely on.
Build out reporting infrastructure and dashboards that make financial performance highly visible across the company.
Create more rigorous and scalable policies and processes around how teams spend their budgets and manage resource allocation tradeoffs
Identify, test, and adopt AI tools and workflow automation to improve FP&A throughput, forecasting accuracy, and analytical depth.
Partner with Accounting on close processes, ensuring Finance and Accounting are tightly aligned on reporting accuracy and cadence.
Build and document scalable FP&A processes and systems that can support a rapidly growing team and business.
Over time, help recruit, develop, and manage a high-performing finance team as RADAR grows.