Head of Finance – Strategic Performance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the trusted financial advisor to the Co-CEOs and a key member of the executive team.

• Direct strategic planning, quarterly goal setting, and significant investment decisions.

• Assess competing investments by analyzing growth scenarios, reinvestment options, risks, and anticipated returns.

• Provide guidance on revenue growth, pricing strategies, monetization, and innovative business models.

• Develop activity-level cost models and define unit economics across primary functions.

• Keep an executive finance dashboard consolidated for better insights.

• Create investment cases and monitor costs, benefits, assumptions, success metrics, and realized returns.

• Implement a company-wide approach for measuring and validating business value.

• Oversee annual planning, driver-based budgets, rolling forecasts, and scenarios that align with strategic objectives and OKRs.

• Collaborate on organizational structure, workforce planning, hiring investments, compensation, productivity, and gain share initiatives.

• Manage accounting, reporting, payroll, cash liquidity, tax, compliance, controls, and risk management.

• Oversee finance operations across the international group, including intercompany agreements, transfer pricing documentation, and consolidated reporting.

• Supervise internal finance staff and external accounting, tax, and financial service partners.

• Create a streamlined finance function leveraging personnel, partners, automation, and AI technologies.

• Establish quarterly OKRs and KPIs for the finance department.

• Utilize Confluence, Jira, and Monday for operational management.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated history of financial insight and investment decisions that resulted in measurable business value.

• Direct experience in driving profitable growth through financial strategies.

• A minimum of eight years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, or corporate finance.

• Proven leadership experience in managing a finance team or function.

• Strong expertise in modeling, forecasting, budgeting, investment analysis, unit economics, and capital allocation.

• Operational knowledge of activities, processes, and factors that contribute to financial outcomes.

• Experience in overseeing accounting, reporting, payroll, tax, and compliance controls.

• Background in shaping strategy in collaboration with senior leaders and founders.

• Comprehensive understanding of enterprise-wide strategy, operations, technology, talent, and financial performance.

• Advanced modeling skills and experience with data and BI tools.

• Familiarity with modern finance technology.

• Daily utilization of Claude, Claude Code, Cowork, or similar AI tools for analysis.

• Nice to have: experience managing finance for an international, multi-entity organization, including intercompany agreements, transfer pricing, and consolidated reporting.

• Nice to have: background in subscription, marketplace, consumer technology, or digital platform sectors.

• Nice to have: experience aiding an established, profitable company in accelerating growth.

• Nice to have: experience collaborating directly with founders or entrepreneurial CEOs.

• Nice to have: experience in building or transforming an FP&A function, including activity-based costing and operational performance measurement.

• Nice to have: experience in designing performance measurement and incentive systems linked to value creation.

• An MBA, CPA, or CFA is a plus.

• All offers are contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive background and reference check.

🏝️ Benefits

• Gain share linked to verifiable repeatable value.

• 99% coverage of our medical base plan.

• Dental insurance coverage.

• Vision insurance included.

• 50% 401(k) match on contributions up to 6%.

• Flexible Spending Account available.

• Flexible paid time off policy.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Opportunities for travel during executive and quarterly planning sessions.