Head of Strategic Finance

retool • San Francisco, CA

55d

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced Strategic Finance leader, who can partner with our CEO, Head of Finance, and other executives to help us make thoughtful investment decisions and drive strong execution against the company's short and long term financial targets. As Strategic Finance Lead, you will report to our Chief Financial Officer and will lead a team that is responsible for building out our core finance capabilities, including: financial planning, budgeting, reporting, and forecasting. You will also serve as a strategic thought partner to leaders across the business, helping assess the impact of key initiatives and evaluating the return on these investments so that we allocate capital effectively.

Requirements

• 10+ years of work experience and a Bachelor's Degree. An MBA or other advanced degree is a plus
• Prior experience in investment banking, PE/VC, or management consulting, as well as experience working in a Finance operating role at a high-growth technology company. SaaS industry experience is a plus, but not required
• Excellent analytical problem-solving skills with ability to unearth insights and turn them into recommendations and action plans
• Strong management skills, including experience scaling and leading high-performance teams, while rolling up sleeves as needed
• Highly proficient in Excel / Sheets with strong modeling skills and attention to detail. Intermediate SQL knowledge is strongly preferred
• Ability to effectively build and maintain cross-functional relationships, manage multiple competing priorities, and drive projects to completion
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to synthesize findings and concisely articulate them to an array of audiences
• Self-starter with a demonstrated ability to adapt to a rapidly-changing environment and execute on many projects at once

Nice To Haves

• An MBA or other advanced degree is a plus
• SaaS industry experience is a plus, but not required
• Intermediate SQL knowledge is strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead quarterly, annual, and long-range planning processes and use them to help guide investment decision-making and resource allocation
• Partner with leaders across the business, from product and engineering, to GTM, to operations, and support strategic decision making and initiative prioritization
• Deliver timely reporting packages and provide insights on key business trends, using them to identify levers for driving growth and efficiency
• Define KPIs and create dashboards that help us better monitor the financial and operational health of the business
• Prepare deep-dive analyses to better understand key drivers of the business and identify opportunities to improve performance and unit economics
• Drive projects to evaluate new investment opportunities and create business cases for key initiatives
• Support the CEO and Head of Finance on communications to investors and other external stakeholders

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees