Head of Finance — Strategic Finance & Corporate Development

Granica is a company focused on building a generational structured AI company, and they are seeking a Founding Head of Finance to lead Strategic Finance, Capital Markets, FP&A, and Company-Wide Performance Architecture. The role involves designing the financial engine, raising capital, and creating a performance model tied directly to long-term value creation.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the CEO to lead $50M–$100M+ growth rounds across Series B+
• Own the long-range financial model, capital strategy, and investor narrative
• Build and manage relationships with top-tier venture, growth, and crossover investors
• Lead diligence, investor Q&A, and board-level financial communications
• Build forecasting, scenario modeling, pricing, and long-range planning systems
• Establish the operating discipline required to scale through Series B, C, D → IPO
• Drive analysis across unit economics, GTM efficiency, R&D leverage, and infra cost modeling
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Sales to align economics with roadmap and GTM scale
• Translate Granica’s system-level and technical value into CFO-relevant outcomes: infrastructure cost reduction, margin expansion, and multi-year cost predictability
• Apply firsthand experience evaluating large-scale data, cloud, or infrastructure spend to pressure-test pricing, ROI models, and replacement economics versus incumbent providers
• Act as an internal proxy for enterprise CFO decision-making, anticipating concerns around switching costs, procurement, risk, and budget governance
• Inform early design-partner conversations and commercial structuring by embedding economic-buyer judgment into product, pricing, and GTM strategy
• Ensure Granica’s financial story resonates under both investor diligence and enterprise customer scrutiny
• Design and operationalize a company-wide performance-based compensation system (NPUs)
• Build KPI-driven models for engineering, research, GTM, and operations
• Own governance, payout logic, and transparency across total rewards
• Lead planning cycles, resource allocation, and financial readiness
• Build global reporting and financial systems that scale with enterprise demand
• Partner with the CEO on board materials, product strategy, pricing, and market expansion
• Build audit, compliance, and governance frameworks for late-stage scale
• Drive S-1 readiness, revenue recognition compliance, and investor-grade reporting
• Hire and scale FP&A, accounting/controllership, revenue operations, and analytics
• Transition from outsourced support to a high-velocity internal team