Director of Strategic Finance

The role

The Director of Strategic Finance will own end-to-end planning and forecasting and rebuild finance processes. This person will lead the move from manual spreadsheets to automated workflows and provide analysis to drive business decisions.

What you will do

• Run the annual operating plan and build departmental OpEx and headcount templates.
• Own the operating model including revenue, gross profit, OpEx, headcount, EBITDA, working capital, and cash.
• Manage a 3 to 5-year long-range plan.
• Reforecast on a regular cadence and run monthly budget-vs-actual reviews.
• Own short- and long-term cash flow forecasting.
• Build monthly reporting packages and Board materials.
• Lead the move from spreadsheet-driven operations to automated, system-to-system workflows.
• Partner with an engineer to define logic and run user acceptance testing for finance automation.
• Define general ledger structure for cost visibility.
• Perform sales investment payback, cohort, retention, and spend-distribution analysis.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in FP&A or strategic finance.
• Investment banking or transaction advisory experience if followed by owning planning and forecasting in an operating company.
• Strong, hands-on SQL.
• Full ownership of a P&L's planning.
• Mastery of the three statements and how the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow connect.
• A track record of building a finance process, model, reporting pipeline, or automation.

Nice to have

• Experience in performance marketing, adtech, martech, ecommerce, consumer, SaaS, or another data-heavy, variable-cost business.
• Cohort, retention, LTV, and unit economics work.
• Exposure to finance systems projects: invoicing, payables, planning tools, or an ERP rollout.
• Board reporting or investor materials.

About the company

Nift is a profitable, roughly 60-person company with $50M+ in annual revenue. Its mission is to reshape how people discover and try new brands through thoughtful thank-you gifts.