Strategic Finance Lead (Founding)

The role

The Strategic Finance Lead will build and own the finance function at Junction. This person will work with the CEO and leaders to manage financial planning, modeling, and strategic business partnership.

What you will do

• Build and own the financial model, budgets, forecasts, and scenario planning.
• Partner with the CEO and functional leaders to evaluate growth, investment, pricing, and unit economics.
• Establish consistent financial reporting, KPIs, and performance analysis.
• Take responsibility for financial operations including accounting oversight, financial close, cash management, tax coordination, and compliance.
• Lead relationships with external bookkeeping, accounting, and tax partners.
• Design and implement processes, tools, reporting, and controls.
• Determine what to build internally and what to outsource.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or a closely related operating finance role.
• Significant ownership of financial modeling and forecasting.
• Experience partnering with business leaders and using financial analysis to influence strategic or operational decisions.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
• Experience in a high-growth technology company.
• A builder's mindset and an appetite for broad ownership.
• Accounting and financial operations knowledge to own reporting and manage external providers.
• A hands-on approach.
• Strong communication skills.
• Comfort with ambiguity.

Nice to have

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• 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
• $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

Before you apply

• We only hire folks physically based in GMT and EST timezones
• We do not sponsor visas right now given our stage

About the company

Junction is building the infrastructure layer for diagnostic healthcare, making patient data accessible, actionable, and automated across labs and devices. The company is backed by Creandum, Point Nine, 20VC, YC, and leading angels.