Senior Director, FP&A & Strategic Growth

Career Launch; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Launch is helping San Francisco Bay Area employers evaluate Senior Director of FP&A opportunities. The role focuses on leading planning, forecasting, and management reporting with a rigorous financial lens and clear executive messaging.

Ideal candidates have deep experience in corporate finance or related fields, strong modeling skills, and a proven ability to drive decisions across finance, legal, and operations while coordinating cross-functional diligence.

Qualifications

• Senior experience in corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, strategy, or corporate development.
• Advanced financial analysis and modeling skills with strong attention to detail.
• Strong judgment evaluating incomplete or conflicting information.
• Experience managing confidential projects with executive visibility.
• Clear writing, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Authorization to work in the United States for the employer without misrepresenting work status.

Responsibilities

• Own planning, forecasting, management reporting, and strategic financial analysis.
• Lead rigorous analysis of markets, companies, investments, transactions, and strategic alternatives.
• Build financial models, decision materials, and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Coordinate diligence and execution across finance, legal, operating, and external teams.
• Identify material risks, value drivers, and unanswered questions early in a process.
• Present conclusions clearly to executives, investment committees, boards, or clients.
• Improve the templates, data sources, and operating processes used for recurring decisions.

Skills

Strategic planning

Financial modeling

Executive communication

Diligence coordination

Risk identification

Presentation to leadership

Process improvement

Job description

Career Launch is helping San Francisco Bay Area employers evaluate Senior Director of FP&A opportunities. The role focuses on leading planning, forecasting, and management reporting with a rigorous financial lens and clear executive messaging.

Ideal candidates have deep experience in corporate finance or related fields, strong modeling skills, and a proven ability to drive decisions across finance, legal, and operations while coordinating cross-functional diligence.