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Head of Strategic Finance

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Strategic Finance

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San Francisco, United States

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ABOUT RETOOL
Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software: Gartner estimates that up to 50% of all code is written for internal use. This is the operational software for refunding orders, underwriting loans, onboarding employees, analyzing transactions, and providing customer support. But most companies don’t have adequate resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old and clunky internal software or, even worse, users still stuck in manual and spreadsheet flows.
At Retool, we’re on a mission to bring good software to everyone. We’re building a new type of development platform that combines the benefits of traditional software development with a drag-and-drop UI editor and AI, making it dramatically faster to build internal tools. We believe that the future of software development lies in abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks developers waste time on, while creating reusable components that act as a force multiplier for future developers and projects. The result is not just productivity, but good software by default. And that’s a mission worth striving for.
Today, our customers span from small startups building their first operational tools to Fortune 500 companies building mission-critical apps for thousands of users across their business. Interested in joining us? Let us know!

WHY WE’RE LOOKING FOR YOU:
We are looking for an experienced Strategic Finance leader, who can partner with our CEO, and other executives to help us make thoughtful investment decisions and drive strong execution against the company’s short and long term financial targets. As Head of Strategic Finance, you will report to our Chief Operating Officer and will lead a team that is responsible for building out our core finance capabilities, including: financial planning, budgeting, reporting, and forecasting. You will also serve as a strategic thought partner to leaders across the business, helping assess the impact of key initiatives and evaluating the return on these investments so that we allocate capital effectively.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
  • Lead quarterly, annual, and long-range planning processes and use them to help guide investment decision-making and resource allocation
  • Partner with leaders across the business, from product and engineering, to GTM, to operations, and support strategic decision-making and initiative prioritization
  • Deliver timely reporting packages and provide insights on key business trends, using them to identify levers for driving growth and efficiency
  • Define KPIs and create dashboards that help us better monitor the financial and operational health of the business
  • Prepare deep-dive analyses to better understand key drivers of the business and identify opportunities to improve performance and unit economics
  • Drive projects to evaluate new investment opportunities and create business cases for key initiatives
  • Support the CEO and CFO on communications to investors and other external stakeholders
THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING:
  • 10+ years of work experience and a Bachelor’s Degree. An MBA or other advanced degree is a plus
  • Prior experience in investment banking, PE/VC, or management consulting, as well as experience working in a Finance operating role at a high-growth technology company. SaaS industry experience is required and exposure to AI and usage-based business models is preferred
  • Excellent analytical problem-solving skills with ability to unearth insights and turn them into recommendations and action plans
  • Strong management skills, including experience scaling and leading high-performance teams, while rolling up sleeves as needed
  • Highly proficient in Excel / Sheets with strong modeling skills and attention to detail. Intermediate SQL knowledge is strongly preferred
  • Ability to effectively build and maintain cross-functional relationships, manage multiple competing priorities, and drive projects to completion
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to synthesize findings and concisely articulate them to an array of audiences
  • Self-starter with a demonstrated ability to adapt to a rapidly-changing environment and execute on many projects at once

Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!
Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK and Mexico. To find roles that can be employed in the UK and Mexico, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.