VP of Strategic Finance

Steno

17h

About The Position

Steno is seeking a VP of Strategic Finance to join their team. This role is a strategic, high-impact position where the individual will own the full FP&A cycle, act as the company's internal consulting bench, diagnose beyond the model, drive action, connect dots across the company, build with a systems mindset, lead the company's highest-stakes analytical work, and serve as a strategic thought partner to the SVP of Finance. The candidate will report directly to the SVP of Finance and work cross-functionally across the organization, with no ceiling on the impact they can have.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience spanning FP&A and Business Operations
• Track record of owning the FP&A cycle end-to-end — reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and board-level narrative — at a company with real operational complexity.
• Experience running ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from framing through to decision.
• Thinks in systems, communicates complex analysis with clarity, and has a bias toward operational action.
• Genuinely curious about how every part of the business works, and has learned to read financial outcomes through a business-first lens.
• Knows the P&L is a lagging report on decisions that were already made — and has built the instinct to work backwards from the number to the real cause.
• Thinks like an internal consultant: can frame questions, build analytical cases, align stakeholders, and see work through to a decision.
• Distinguishes leading indicators from lagging ones instinctively.
• When building a model or report, uses it to change how a team operates.
• Considers how new tools or business units connect to the broader ecosystem, who needs to be involved, and how to set things up for success.
• Comfortable operating in environments where the infrastructure is evolving and the process is still being built.

Nice To Haves

• Time in investment banking, management consulting, or a BizOps / Strategy & Operations seat at a scaling company.
• Experience in SaaS, legal tech, or marketplace businesses.
• Familiarity with tools like Looker, dbt, or Snowflake.

Responsibilities

• Own the full FP&A cycle — reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis — with the narrative depth that helps leadership understand not just what happened, but why, and what it means for next quarter.
• Act as the company’s internal consulting bench — pick up the ambiguous, cross-functional problems that don’t yet have an owner and run them from problem framing to decision to implementation.
• Diagnose beyond the model — when something moves in the P&L, trace it back to what actually happened in the business: a comp plan change, a service delivery constraint, a product decision, a team restructure.
• Drive action, not just insight — use data to inform real-time decisions on staffing, pipeline performance, pricing, and resource allocation.
• Connect the dots across the company — surface the insights that span teams before anyone thinks to ask for them.
• Build with a systems mindset — evaluate tools, data infrastructure, and processes with an eye toward scalability, integration, and downstream impact.
• Lead the company’s highest-stakes analytical work — unit economics, investment cases, new business models, and deep dives that shape company direction.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the SVP of Finance — pressure-test assumptions, flag second-order impacts, and bring rigor to decisions that span the business.

Benefits

• Stock options
• Premium Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage — options for you and your family, with generous employer contributions toward premiums.
• Wellness and mental health benefits to be used among employees and families.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees