Director, Strategic Finance – Remote Position Available In Montgomery, Pennsylvania

Job Description:

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Director, Strategic Finance Location:

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Head of Finance About Us HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-onewhite-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketingagencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digitalpresence and drive growth. We are proud to support a global andgrowing community of over 2 million businesses, from marketingagencies to entrepreneurs to small businesses and beyond. Ourplatform empowers users across industries to streamline operations,drive growth, and crush their goals. HighLevel processes over 15billion API hits and handles more than 2.5 billion message eventsevery day. Our platform manages 470 terabytes of data distributedacross five databases, operates with a network of over 250microservices, and supports over 1 million domain names. Our PeopleWith over 1,500 team members across 15 countries, we operate in aglobal, remote-first environment. We are building more thansoftware; we are building a global community rooted in creativity,collaboration, and impact. We take pride in cultivating a culturewhere innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated, and people comefirst, no matter where they call home. Our Impact Every month, ourplatform powers over 1.5 billion messages, helps generate over 200million leads, and facilitates over 20 million conversations forthe more than 2 million businesses we serve. Behind those numbersare real people growing their companies, connecting with customers,and making their mark – and we get to help make that happen.

WhoYou Are:

HighLevel is seeking an experienced Director, StrategicFinance to build out the function and implement AI-first analyticalfinancial frameworks to influence decision making for our mostbusiness-critical questions. You will partner directly with seniorleaders across the business to help inform resource allocation,define operational and financial KPIs, own long-range financialrevenue modeling and most importantly, proactively identifyopportunities to drive growth or improve profitability. We arelooking for someone with a strong track record of leading astrategic finance function in a high-growth private/public company,partnering with financial and non-financial stakeholders toinfluence key business decisions using data and building ahigh-performing team. You will report directly to the Head ofFinance.

What You Will Do:

Functional Ownership:

Lead our strategicfinance function, play a central role in defining how the teampartners across the organization and act as a trusted advisor tosenior leaders to help influence quantify key business decisions

Strategic Planning & Forecasting:

Own and improve the company’slong-range financial model for our subscription, usage-based andpayments products, embedding deeply across the business toidentify, quantify and capture changes in GTM, product strategy,operational efficiency, etc.

Decision Support:

Partner with seniorleaders across Product, Marketing, Sales & Operations to providefinancial insights and scenario analysis supporting strategicinitiatives, resource allocation, and investment decisions byleveraging an in-depth understanding of market dynamics, uniteconomics, pricing strategies, etc. – helping ensure financialassumptions translate into measurable outcomes

CorporateDevelopment Support:

Collect and analyze externalfinancial/operational data, and interpret market trends andcompetitor activities to deliver benchmarking analysis andinfluence decision making for key stakeholders, includingmanagement and investors.

Board & Investor Materials:

Prepare andpresent strategic financial insights, forecasts, and KPIs to theboard of directors, investors, and executive stakeholders.

BusinessCase Development:

Build robust operational financial models formajor projects, including ROI, LTV/CAC and payback analysis, tohelp teams quantify trade-offs between driving growth profitability/ articulate compelling financial narratives

Cross-functionalCollaboration:

Lead cross-departmental financial projects and drivealignment across teams on budgeting, resource planning, andstrategic goals.

KPI Development & Tracking:

Define and track keyperformance indicators across Sales & Marketing, Product, Support,etc. and lead performance measurement initiatives to driveaccountability and transparency.

Team and Culture Building:

Hire,mentor and guide other finance team members, fostering ahigh-performance, collaborative and data-driven culture. Architectscalable team structures, workflows, and governance models thatsupport business growth without sacrificing control / quality.

AI-enabled Process Improvement:

Identify and spearheadopportunities to leverage AI-based tools to streamline existingclose / improve precision of forecasting processes, helping unlockteam capacity to focus on other ad-hoc or high-impact analysis

WhatYou Bring:

Bachelors degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or arelated field (MBA or CFA preferred). 10-12 years of progressiveexperience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking,private equity, or corporate strategy in a late-stage / high-growthtech or public company environment, with at least 5 years ofleadership / management experience Exceptional communication andpresentation skills, with experience interfacing with executiveteams, board members, and investors. Excellent business partneringskills, with both financial and non-financial leaders; track recordof advising operational and financial improvements across multipleareas in the business Willingness and ability to operate atmultiple levels – deep within the details and big picture – withstrong awareness of when to leverage each to achieve a targetedoutcome Advanced modeling skills, including strong understanding ofbottom-up financial modeling and tying together unit economics tothe overall business impact Deep understanding of SaaS andusage-based business models and metrics Ability to jump intoambiguous questions or situations, identify the key variables anddrive toward a successful outcome Extraordinary ability tostory-tell with data / analysis and distill complex topics andtradeoffs into a simple framework to influence decision makingPossess a bias toward action, strong work ethic, and player-coachmentality with experience driving operational outcomes under tighttimelines Advanced experience with Excel / Google sheets, BI tools(Tableau), financial planning tools (e.g. Adaptive Insights) and AItools (e.g. GPT-based copilots, etc.)

Strong Candidates May AlsoBring:

Track record of using AI to improve forecastingmethodologies or drive process improvements Experience building ≻aling a strategic finance function from scratch Equal EmploymentOpportunity Information The company is an Equal OpportunityEmployer. As an employer subject to affirmative action regulations,we invite you to voluntarily provide the following demographicinformation. This information is used solely for compliance withgovernment recordkeeping, reporting, and other legal requirements.

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