Director of Corporate FP&A

Overview

This role leads integrated company FP&A and Strategic Finance across Go-to-Market (GTM) and R&D. The position is responsible for building and scaling the Finance function’s planning, forecasting, performance management, and executive/Board reporting, with a strong emphasis on financial rigor, speed, and actionable insights.

The successful candidate will work closely with the CEO and other executives and will report to the leader of the overall Finance organization. As the team grows, this role will be hands-on with the most critical financial work and will own key strategic finance deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop an FP&A and Strategic Finance team by setting priorities, hiring, coaching emerging leaders, and establishing high standards.
• Own the integrated financial plan, including:
  • Long-range and annual planning
  • Driver-based forecasts
  • Headcount planning
  • Revenue planning
  • Operating investments
  • Cash planning
  • Communicating the implications of different choices
• Lead performance management using forecasts, monthly business reviews, and budget-owner conversations, including:
  • Identifying changes early
  • Distinguishing signal from noise
  • Turning analysis into decisions with accountable owners
• Partner with GTM and R&D leaders on pricing, unit economics, growth, infrastructure, and investment tradeoffs, bringing a whole-company perspective to cross-functional decisions.
• Lead executive and Board financial reporting, including financial work supporting fundraising such as projections, scenarios, diligence, and maintaining a consistent narrative.
• Improve Finance planning systems and workflows, including using Pigment and applying AI to accelerate reliable analytical work and build repeatable improvements into team operations.

Requirements

• Experience independently owning company-wide FP&A and Strategic Finance in a growing technology business, with both corporate planning depth and meaningful business partnership.
• Demonstrated ability to identify important business problems before being asked, develop a defensible point of view, and influence executives to act.
• Proven record of hiring, developing, and leading a strong team, including creating leverage from a lean starting point.
• Strong financial craft, including:
  • Driver-based forecasting
  • Integrated financial statements
  • Cash planning
  • Scenario analysis
  • Clear understanding of underlying assumptions
• Strong executive communication skills, including preparing and defending recommendations for senior leadership and Boards.
• Applied AI fluency, including the ability to demonstrate how AI is used in analytical work, validate outputs, improve recurring workflows, and coach others.
• Experience improving planning systems, data quality, and operating processes (Pigment experience is current; comparable platform experience is relevant).
• Sound judgment under ambiguity and a willingness to work directly in the details when required.
• Enterprise SaaS experience, complex customer contracts, and experience supporting a significant financing or public-company readiness process are valuable; leaders from adjacent technology businesses with comparable operating complexity are welcome.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience specifically in enterprise SaaS environments.
• Experience supporting a significant financing process or public-company readiness process.
• Experience with complex customer contracts.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation details are not included in this job posting.

Location

Headquartered in San Francisco, with distributed-first operations and hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.