Strategic Finance

fal•San Francisco, CA

1d•$180,000 - $220,000

About The Position

fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products. We build the infrastructure, tools, and model access that teams need to move from idea to production, and do it at scale without compromise. For developers and enterprises, fal is the foundation that makes generative media not just possible, but practical: a unified platform where high-performance inference, orchestration, and observability come together to unlock new categories of AI-native products. As generative media reshapes industries across a market projected to grow by hundreds of billions over the next decade, fal is becoming the ecosystem that ambitious teams build on. About the role We're looking for a strategic finance partner to join our growing finance team. You'll work across every function on consolidations, KPI reporting and tracking, systems implementation and strategic projects. This isn't a typical B2B SaaS business, and fal isn't a typical environment. We're deliberately flat, with very few titles or layers, and we move extremely fast while data and processes are still being built. This role is built for someone who can own problems end to end without a manager. You'll get a problem, not a playbook. You'll be expected to scope it, decide on the approach, get the data, drive it to an answer and bring a recommendation to leadership. We don't have the bandwidth to coach or closely manage this role, so independent judgment is the core of the job.

Requirements

6+ years of experience. Ideally investment banking (for rigor and modeling fundamentals) followed by private equity or growth investing, where you owned and pitched deals rather than only executing them. In-house strategic finance at a high-growth startup is a plus
High agency: a track record of taking full ownership of ambiguous problems and driving them to resolution without direction or oversight
Independent thinker: you form your own view, make the call and can defend your reasoning. You know the answer, not just all the options
Deliberate about your career: you can explain the choices you've made and why, and you're curious beyond your job description
Able to read and troubleshoot data and validate metrics on your own. You don't need to hand-write SQL, but you must be able to read a table, find what's wrong and fix it
Working knowledge of accounting concepts (billings, deferred revenue, AR, rev rec), and the ability to explain them to non-finance stakeholders
Strong financial modeling. You can turn complex data into clear, actionable recommendations
Mature, low-ego and high-urgency, and excited to work in a fast-changing AI startup

Nice To Haves

Experience in AI, cloud or large-scale computing infrastructure
Experience implementing a modern FP&A tool
A track record of building or using AI tools to automate financial workflows

Responsibilities

Own parts of company-wide financial planning, forecasting and budgeting
Maintain and extend our bottoms-up revenue model across GTM motions and products, track actuals vs. plan, and surface insights with a point of view on what to do about them
Drive FP&A software implementation and other finance systems (ERP, procurement)
Partner with accounting and data on monthly revenue reporting so product- and customer-level breakdowns are accurate and usable
Build dashboards that give leadership real-time visibility into key metrics vs. plan and forecast
Go into the data (e.g. BigQuery), spot what's wrong, and drive the fix with the right people. We're a lean team without a dedicated analyst, so this is core to the job
Use AI tools to automate recurring financial workflows