[Hiring] Director of Strategic Finance @Nift

Role Description

Nift is hiring our first Director of Strategic Finance to own planning and forecasting end to end, and to rebuild how finance gets its numbers. This role is designed for a strong senior manager or director who wants full ownership and more headroom.

What you'll own

• Planning and forecasting, end to end
  • Run the annual operating plan.
  • Build the departmental OpEx and headcount templates, walk each leader through them, and turn their inputs into one driver-based plan.
  • Own the operating model: revenue, gross profit, OpEx, headcount, EBITDA, working capital, and cash, plus a 3 to 5-year long-range plan.
  • Reforecast on a regular cadence and run monthly budget-vs-actual reviews with department heads.
  • Own short- and long-term cash flow forecasting, including collections and payment timing.
  • Build the monthly reporting package and the Board materials with the Head of Finance.
• Finance systems, automation, and process
  • Lead the move from spreadsheet-driven finance operations to automated, system-to-system workflows.
  • Partner with an engineer on the product team: write the requirements, define the logic, check the numbers, and run user acceptance testing.
  • Define how the general ledger should be structured for cost visibility.
  • Evaluate and select finance tools, such as a planning platform.
  • Use AI where it actually saves time: variance commentary, data validation, recurring reporting.
• Analysis that drives decisions
  • Measure payback on our sales investment by team.
  • Build advertiser and partner cohort, retention, and spend-distribution analysis by segment.
  • Turn open-ended questions into a clear point of view.
  • Write your own SQL against our production data.

Your first year

• First 90 days: Take ownership of the operating model and the annual plan, run your first monthly close review with accounting, and deliver your first reporting package and Board pack.
• By month 6: A driver-based plan and rolling forecast that leaders actually use to make decisions.
• By month 12: Cash forecasting you trust, a ledger structure that answers "what does this team cost?" without manual rework.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in FP&A or strategic finance.
• Strong, hands-on SQL.
• Full ownership of a P&L's planning.
• Mastery of the three statements.
• A track record of building something in finance that didn't exist before.
• The ability to turn analysis into a clear recommendation for a CEO or a Board.

Requirements

• 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.
• Board reporting or investor materials.

What doesn't matter

• Your degree or where you went to school.

Is this for you?

• This role is not accounting.
• This is not a deal job.
• This is not a role with a team underneath you on day one.

You'll love it here if:

• You see a messy, manual process and want to be the one who fixes it.
• You'd rather be handed a blank page than a checklist.

It probably isn't a fit if:

• You're used to directing a team and want to keep doing that.