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Director, Strategic Finance - Corporate FP&A
Sunnyvale, CA · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted May 21, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years of total experience (rough guide).
About the job
Lead corporate FP&A for a newly public AI-compute company, building its planning, forecasting, reporting, and business-partnership operations.
What you'll do
- Own company-wide planning, budgeting, forecasting, revenue projections, G&A spend and headcount planning, and scenario analysis.
- Deliver executive, Board, investor, and public-company reporting, including KPIs, dashboards, and guidance support.
- Improve finance systems, data quality, and workflows, including practical AI-enabled automation.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of total experience, ideally in corporate FP&A, strategic finance, or adjacent roles.
- Corporate FP&A leadership experience, ideally at a public or newly public company, or in a comparably rigorous analytical setting.
- Strong financial modeling skills, including building models from scratch and pressure-testing assumptions.
- Proven G&A and executive-facing partnership; player-coach leadership and ability to build or improve small teams and processes.
Nice to have
- Technical fluency with Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, Python, AI tools, and planning or BI tooling.
- Experience in hardware, semiconductor, infrastructure, public-company scaling, performance management, or planning/ERP/BI systems such as NetSuite, Oracle, or Looker.
Tools
Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, Python, AI tools, NetSuite, Oracle, Looker
AI focus
Use AI and AI-enabled workflows to automate work, accelerate analysis, improve quality, and increase team output.
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