Director of Strategic Finance

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Nift

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💰 $16.5M Series A on 2018-03

Marketing • Consulting • Logistics

Nift is a technology company that acts as a matchmaker between customers and businesses. By creating a network that connects great customers with outstanding businesses, Nift aims to help both parties thrive. The company offers gifts to potential customers, encouraging them to experience and discover new businesses they may love.

📋 Description

• Own planning and forecasting end to end • Run the annual operating plan and build departmental OpEx and headcount templates • Own the operating model covering revenue, gross profit, OpEx, headcount, EBITDA, working capital, cash, and a 3–5-year long-range plan • Reforecast regularly and run monthly budget-versus-actual reviews with department heads • Own short- and long-term cash-flow forecasting, including collections and payment timing • Build monthly reporting packages and Board materials with the Head of Finance • Lead the transition from spreadsheet-driven finance operations to automated system-to-system workflows • Partner with an engineer to define requirements and logic, validate numbers, and run user acceptance testing • Define general-ledger structure and work with accounting on cleanup and coding accuracy • Evaluate and select finance tools such as planning platforms • Use AI for variance commentary, data validation, and recurring reporting • Measure sales-investment payback by team • Build advertiser and partner cohort, retention, and spend-distribution analysis by segment • Develop methodologies and recommendations for business questions, document analyses, and communicate data-backed conclusions • Write SQL against production data and the finance schema • In the first 90 days, take ownership of the operating model and annual plan, run a monthly close review, and deliver reporting and Board materials • By month 6, deliver a driver-based plan, rolling forecast, predictable close cadence, explained variances, and at least one automated workflow • By month 12, deliver trusted cash forecasting, an effective ledger structure, recurring sales payback and cohort analysis, and a finance function operating without day-to-day Head of Finance involvement

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in FP&A or strategic finance; investment banking or transaction advisory experience is acceptable if followed by ownership of planning and forecasting in an operating company • Strong, hands-on SQL skills, including querying, joining, and reconciling messy data • Full ownership of P&L planning at a smaller company or division operating like its own business • Mastery of the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow connections • Track record of building a new finance process, model, reporting pipeline, or automation • Ability to turn analysis into clear recommendations for a CEO or Board • Experience in performance marketing, adtech, martech, ecommerce, consumer, SaaS, or another data-heavy, variable-cost business is nice to have • Cohort, retention, LTV, and unit economics experience is nice to have • Exposure to finance systems projects, including invoicing, payables, planning tools, ERP rollout, engineering collaboration, and UAT is nice to have • Board reporting or investor materials experience is nice to have