Strategic Finance & Operations

Tome; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Health insurance

3 weeks PTO

11 company holidays

Remote Wednesdays

Team events and offsites

Family leave 3 months

Commuter stipend

Lunch stipend

Job summary

Lightfield is seeking a Strategic Finance & Operations professional to partner with the Head of Operations and leadership on financial and operating infrastructure for the next growth phase.

You will develop metrics, models, analyses, and processes to drive better operating decisions, understand performance, and improve spend visibility. The role involves cross-functional collaboration and high-priority project support in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
• Ability to structure ambiguous questions and derive actionable insights.
• Experience in investment banking, private equity, VC, or strategic finance is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build operating metrics, dashboards, KPIs, and reporting across revenue, growth, customers, spend, and efficiency.
• Forecasting, planning, budgeting, and headcount modeling.
• Conduct strategic analyses and synthesize insights to inform decisions.

Skills

financial modeling

analytical skills

business judgment

cross-functional collaboration

Job description

• We're looking for someone to join our Strategic Finance & Operations team and help build the financial and operating infrastructure for Lightfield's next stage of growth
• You'll work directly with our Head of Operations and closely with our CEO and leadership team across strategic finance, company planning, and business operations.
• You'll help build the metrics, models, analyses, and processes we use to understand the business and make better operating decisions
• Build operating metrics and reporting. Develop and maintain the dashboards, KPIs, and reporting we use to understand performance across revenue, growth, customers, spend, and efficiency
• Support forecasting and planning. Help build and maintain financial models, forecasts, budgets, and headcount plans, and analyze performance against plan
• Run strategic analyses. Dig into company-level questions, bring together data from across the business, and turn analysis into clear insights that inform decisions
• Improve spend visibility. Build reporting around company spend, identify trends and opportunities, and provide the analysis needed to make better spending decisions
• Build operating infrastructure. Help establish the systems, processes, and reporting cadences we need to run the company with greater rigor as we grow
• Work cross-functionally. Partner with teams across the company to gather data, understand performance, and execute on cross-functional projects
• Support high-priority projects. Work directly with the Head of Operations on strategic, financial, and operational priorities as they emerge

Benefits

• Meaningful early equity
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• 3 weeks of PTO
• 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break
• Wednesdays work from home
• Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats
• 3 months of paid family leave401k plan
• Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend

This is a great opportunity for someone with strong financial and analytical training who wants to move from analyzing businesses to helping build oneYou're comfortable taking ambiguous questions, structuring the problem, and working with imperfect data to get to an answerYou have 2-5 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, growth investing, strategic finance, or another highly analytical environmentYou're excited to work in a fast-moving startup environment and get into the weeds; prior startup or operating experience is a plus, but not requiredYou have strong business judgment and can turn complex analyses into clear, actionable takeawaysYou have strong financial modeling and analytical skills and can build analyses from scratch