Director, Strategic Finance

Overview

This role builds and owns the finance function for an early-stage, data-driven healthcare diagnostics infrastructure organization. As the first dedicated finance leader, you will establish financial planning, reporting, performance visibility, and finance operations while partnering closely with the CEO and functional leaders to translate financial analysis into business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and own financial planning and models, including budgets, forecasts, and scenario planning
• Connect financial performance to underlying business drivers and communicate where the business is headed
• Partner with the CEO and functional leaders on growth opportunities, investment decisions, pricing, unit economics, and operational performance
• Establish consistent financial reporting, KPIs, and performance analysis across the organization
• Bring together financial and operational data to provide leadership with clear views of performance, risks, and opportunities
• Own finance operations, including accounting oversight, financial close, cash management, tax coordination, and compliance
• Manage and lead relationships with external bookkeeping, accounting, and tax partners to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and effective management
• Design and implement finance processes, tools, reporting, and controls as the business scales, including decisions about what to build internally vs. outsource

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or a closely related operating finance role, with significant ownership of financial modeling and forecasting
• Experience partnering with business leaders and influencing strategic or operational decisions through financial analysis
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, including the ability to connect financial outcomes to commercial and operational drivers
• Experience in a high-growth technology company, ideally at a stage where financial systems and processes were still being built
• Builder mindset and appetite for broad ownership; excited to take responsibility for the entire finance function
• Sufficient accounting and financial operations knowledge to own reporting, manage external providers, and ensure financial obligations are met
• Hands-on approach working directly with data, building models, managing processes, and figuring things out without a large team
• Strong communication skills and ability to make financial analysis useful to people outside finance
• Comfort with ambiguity and genuine interest in learning new areas of finance as the business grows

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an early finance hire or helping build a finance function from scratch
• Experience in healthcare technology, infrastructure software, marketplaces, or other operationally complex businesses (SaaS billing experience a plus)
• Experience with transaction-based or usage-based business models and unit economics
• Experience supporting pricing, commercial strategy, or business expansion decisions
• Experience managing outsourced accounting, bookkeeping, or tax relationships

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary is dependent on your location and experience level
• Equity (extended exercise post 2 years of employment)
• Company and team offsites
• Monthly learning budget of $150 for personal development and productivity
• $100 monthly wellness budget
• Flexible, remote-first working, including $1K for home office equipment
• Coworking budget
• 36 days paid time off (including bank holidays)
• Premium healthcare coverage
• 4% monthly contribution to pension/401k
• Yearly blood test on us
• Enhanced parental, foster, and adoption leave

Location

• This role is for candidates physically based in GMT and EST timezones.
• Visa sponsorship: we do not sponsor visas right now given our stage.