What you'll doAs the Strategic Finance Lead, you'll drive key processes that help translate Sierra's strategy into a financial plan and measure performance against it. Build and maintain forecasts, budgets, and models that help leaders understand where the business is, where it's going, and what tradeoffs they face. This is a high-ownership IC role for a builder who is energized by ambiguity and wants their fingerprints on how a high-growth AI company understands and drives its business.
- Planning and Forecasting: Develop and drive key components of our financial planning and forecasting processes (e.g., revenue, cost of sales, GTM, R&D, capex and IDSW). Collaborate closely with Corporate FP&A to ensure revenue and cost forecasts integrate cleanly into the consolidated financial plan, board reporting, and budget vs. actuals (BvA) packages.
- Performance Insights and Business Partnership: Support the monthly and quarterly close cycle from an FP&A perspective, including BvA and variance commentary. Develop and track the unit economics framework: LTV, CAC, CAC payback, LTV:CAC, and contribution margin by segment. Deliver actionable insights by connecting revenue, cost, and unit economic trends into a coherent view of business performance.
- Data Infrastructure and Process: Build and own the data pipelines and reporting frameworks that underpin revenue and cost analytics, working with the appropriate teams to ensure clean, reliable inputs. Develop repeatable processes, templates, and documentation for all owned workstreams, with a bias toward automation and an AI-native approach to financial operations
- Cross Functional Partnership: Drive cross-functional alignment on goals, building stakeholder buy-in, and enabling effective decision-making and execution across the organization.
What you'll bring- 8+ years of total experience, including meaningful time in a Strategic Finance, FP&A, or investment role at a high-growth technology company, and exposure to investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or an equivalent analytical finance environment
- Deep fluency in SaaS and ARR-based business models: you can build a bottoms-up ARR bridge, decompose NRR into its drivers, model cohort retention, and explain the unit economics of an enterprise software business.
- Direct experience building revenue models and customer analytics datasets in a SaaS or cloud business, including customer-level or segment-level ARR analysis.
- Exceptional financial modeling skills, with the ability to build complex, multi-driver models from scratch in Google Sheets, including scenario frameworks, sensitivity analysis, and dynamic forecast structures.
- Strong business partnership skills: you can sit in a room with leaders across the business from Engineering to GTM, understand what they are trying to accomplish, and translate it into a financial framework that improves their decision-making.
- Proficiency in BI and data tools such as Hex, Omni, Looker, and SQL, with the ability to pull and validate data independently.
- A structured, self-directed, detail-oriented builder and problem solver who can design a process where none exists, run it, and improve it over time without being managed toward it. A bias for simplifying and automating processes and passion for building an AI-native finance function.
Even better...- Degree in finance, economics, accounting, STEM, or equivalent professional experience.
What we offerWe want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:
- Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
- Parental leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
- Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
- Free alphorn lessons
These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.
