Strategic Finance, Corporate FP&A Lead

The role

The Corporate FP&A Lead will own planning, forecasting, and the corporate operating model. This person will partner with leadership and various departments to provide decision-ready insight and build AI-native finance workflows.

What you will do

• Own core planning processes including annual operating plan, long-range plan, quarterly forecasts, and monthly performance reviews
• Own the corporate operating model for planning, scenarios, and strategic decisions
• Lead monthly business reviews with leadership
• Partner on board and investor materials
• Partner with GTM, Engineering, Operations, and G&A leaders on budgets, headcount, and COGS
• Model infrastructure and compute economics and evaluate vendor commitments
• Define, track, and report KPIs for topline performance, unit economics, and operational efficiency
• Partner with Accounting on close and budget-vs-actuals
• Build scalable FP&A systems, dashboards, and automated reporting
• Build AI-native workflows for recurring finance analysis

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in corporate FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, or consulting
• Strong technical foundation in three-statement modeling, driver-based modeling, and long-range plans
• Strong command of annual planning, forecasting, budgeting, and monthly and board reporting cadences
• Experience preparing board and investor materials
• Strong analytical rigor and judgment to evaluate opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs
• Fluency in SaaS and usage-based financials
• Comfort with ambiguity and a high-agency, roll-up-your-sleeves mindset
• Ability to form a point of view and bring a clear recommendation with strong executive communication
• Energized by AI-assisted workflows and automation
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Experience with financial planning and BI tools (e.g. Pigment, Anaplan)
• Background in AI, ML, or cloud infrastructure economics
• Experience supporting capital raises or IPO readiness
• Fluency translating between GAAP and non-GAAP metrics
• Experience scaling a finance function - and team - through rapid growth

About the company

Factory builds the platform for self-improving software development to help enterprise engineering teams become autonomous software factories. The company raised $200M at a $5B valuation in 2026.