Strategic Finance

Fal; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance (

Equity

Visa sponsorship

Remote work opportunities

Downtown SF office

Job summary

fal, a San Francisco‑based AI startup, is seeking a strategic finance partner to join our growing finance team. You’ll shape planning, forecasting, and KPI reporting across functions, while driving finance systems and automated workflows in a high‑growth environment.

You’ll build bottoms‑up revenue models, partner with accounting and data teams on monthly revenue reporting, and develop real‑time dashboards to expose performance vs plan. Remote options may be considered for exceptional candidates.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in strategic finance or related field at a high-growth tech company.
• Strong financial modeling and ability to distill data into insights.
• Experience with ERP systems and modern FP&A tools.
• Ability to read and troubleshoot data and metrics independently.
• High-urgency, proactive, and able to operate in a fast-changing startup.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and influence.

Responsibilities

• Plan, forecast, and budget across the company.
• Maintain and extend revenue models across GTM and products.
• Assist with FP&A software implementation and finance systems.
• Partner with accounting and data on monthly revenue reporting.
• Build dashboards for leadership visibility into key metrics.
• Automate recurring financial workflows using AI tools.

Skills

Financial planning

Financial modelling

Cross-functional communication

Data interpretation

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Tools

ERP

BigQuery

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Hi there! We are fal, and we are on a mission to build world’s first generative media platform for developers.

We built a serverless runtime for Python that is optimized to run large ML models on 1000s of GPUs efficiently. The applications built on our platform are currently serving millions of users around the world and our goal is to 1000x that over the next few years.

fal is an in‑person company based in San Francisco. Today, we are 80 people strong, and we are looking for team members who share our excitement about the fast moving nature of AI and can independently build world‑class infrastructure.

About the role

We’re looking for a strategic finance partner to join our growing finance team. You will help across all functions - consolidations, KPI reporting and tracking, systems implementation, and ad hoc strategic projects. This is not a typical B2B SaaS business, and fal is not a typical environment: we’re a deliberately flat organization with very few titles or layers, moving extremely fast with data and processes still being built. The ideal person is interdisciplinary, resourceful, low-ego, and energized by ambiguity and a high‑urgency pace.

What you’ll do

Planning: Support company‑wide financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes

Models: Help maintain and extend our bottoms‑up revenue model across GTM motions and products, track and report actuals vs variances, and surface insights

Systems: Assist with FP&A software implementation and additional finance systems (ERP, procurement)

Reporting: Partner with accounting and data on monthly revenue reporting, ensuring product‑ and customer‑level breakdowns are accurate and usable

Visibility: Build dashboards giving leadership real‑time visibility into key performance metrics vs plan and forecast

Make the data usable: Go into the data (e.g. BigQuery), spot what’s wrong, and drive it to a fix with the right people; we’re a lean team without a dedicated analyst, so this is core to the job

Automate: Use AI tools to automate recurring financial workflows

What we’re looking for

Required

5+ years of experience across strategic finance, private/growth equity or investment banking with 3+ years of finance operating experience at a high‑growth technology company

Able to read and troubleshoot data and validate metrics independently. You don’t need to hand‑write SQL, but you must read a table, find what’s wrong, and problem‑solve it

Working knowledge of accounting concepts (billings, deferred revenue, AR, rev rec) and able to translate them for non‑finance stakeholders

Strong financial‑modeling skill; can distill complex data into clear, actionable insights

Strong cross‑functional communication and influencing skills

Resourceful, low‑ego, high‑urgency, and genuinely excited to operate in a fast‑changing AI startup with evolving processes

Preferred

Experience in AI, cloud, or large‑scale computing infrastructure

Experience implementing a modern FP&A tool

Track record of building/using AI tools to automate financial workflows

How we work (please read)

fal is intentionally flat: there are very few titles, and almost everyone reports to a senior leader rather than a layer of managers. People here are excited about the AI space, take real ownership, move fast, and aren’t focused on titles or hierarchy. If a messy, high‑autonomy, build‑as‑you‑go environment sounds energizing rather than stressful, you’ll thrive.

Work with senior leaders on strategic and high‑priority problems at one of the fastest‑growing companies in AI. High autonomy, real ownership as you earn it, and competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.

Compensation Range: $180K - $200K

What we offer at fal

• Interesting and challenging work
• Competitive salary and equity
• We are currently hiring in downtown San Francisco. We prefer to work in‑person but we also offer remote work opportunities for exceptional candidates.
• We offer visa sponsorship and will help you relocate to San Francisco.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)