Head of Strategic Finance

Role Overview

• Build, maintain, and defend Clair’s consolidated operating model
• Run the annual budget process end-to-end. Bottoms-up plans with every department, reconciled to top-down targets
• Maintain weekly rolling forecasts. You’re the first person to know when something is off and you turn that into action, not just insight
• Variance analysis that says something. Not "Revenue was $50K below plan" but "Revenue was $50K below plan because partner X’s conversion dropped 15% after their app update, and here’s what we should do"
• Own the reporting cadence: monthly reviews, QBRs, board materials
• Build the models behind fundraising: investor decks, data rooms, due diligence answers
• Model new product economics before we build anything. What are the unit economics? What’s the break-even?
• Pricing and take-rate analysis for new and existing partnerships
• Be the VP of Finance’s go-to analytical partner on big-picture questions
• Product team says engagement is up. Partnerships says a new population is onboarding. Data science says default rates are shifting. You’re the one who turns those inputs into a coherent financial picture
• Translate model outputs into plain English for people who don’t live in spreadsheets
• Make sure the model matches reality. Partner with accounting on close. If actuals and forecast diverge, figure out why
• Build processes that scale. Automate the stuff that should be automated. Know when a human needs to look at the number. Evolve our processes and tools to be AI-native and generating maximum operating leverage
• Own the tooling: Pigment, dashboards, reporting infrastructure

Requirements

• 5-8+ years. Ideally a combination of IB, PE, or consulting foundation. At least 2+ years owning FP&A or strategic finance at a growth-stage startup (Series B through D)
• You’ve built or rebuilt a company operating model, not just inherited a clean one and updated it
• Experience supporting a fundraise. Data rooms, investor models, fielding questions
• You can model across business types: transaction-based, SaaS, lending/credit
• Excel/Sheets, SQL, Pigment, or Anaplan. Pigment preferred
• You can write a board memo on our growth trajectory and walk a Data Analyst through our margin profile in the same afternoon.
• You’ve managed or mentored at least one person
• Bachelor’s in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or STEM

Tech Stack

• SQL

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage, with option to extend to your family
• Fully-paid parental leave
• Company-sponsored 401k, HSA, and FSA
• Unlimited vacation for salaried roles, generous PTO for hourly roles
• Work from home setup allowance
• Access to your earnings every day on Clair
• Company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability insurance