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Head of Business Partnership Finance

United States, San Francisco 240000.00 - 280000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 21, 2026
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Lead a high-performing Business Partnership (BP) Finance team delivering strategic partnership and financial leadership to business units. Act as the primary finance liaison to department heads and senior leadership, guiding planning, forecasting, and decision-making. Transform financial data into actionable insights that influence go‑to‑market strategies, investment decisions, and profitability improvements. We are a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately.

Job Responsibility

  • Provide finance support across GTM, R&D, and G&A expense and headcount management
  • Lead coordination & improvements of monthly Budget vs Actuals (BvA) reviews and other opportunities to build financial maturity
  • Elevate finance's strategic voice through a collaborative mindset
  • Drive improved forecast accuracy, alignment, and collaborative strategic decision making as a part of ad hoc and recurring finance processes including monthly close, reforecasts, planning, long-range planning, and other critical Expense & Headcount forecasting processes and reporting
  • Support our monthly close and forecast processes - analyze financial results, distill and synthesize key trends, and communicate risks & opportunities to influence business outcomes
  • Assist in preparation of monthly & quarterly management reporting including Budget vs Actuals analyses and dashboards
  • Drive deeper Budget vs Actuals understanding and forecast precision via smarter, more data-driven modeling and tighter cross-functional partnership, particularly in uncharted, high impact areas
  • Tackle new & evolving priorities for the team
  • Conduct ad hoc modeling (e.g. pricing, cost-benefit, investment cases)
  • Translate data into narratives that guide leadership decisions
  • Strengthen our operational infrastructure by identifying process improvements
  • Build automation to take steps out of our recurring motions and reduce margin of error
  • Coach and mentor talented existed team to develop both technical and partnership capabilities
  • Grow the team as part of our operational excellence journey

Requirements

  • ~10-15 years experience in Business Partnership FP&A and other finance roles
  • Proven leadership managing business partnership FP&A teams and executive relationships
  • Ability to translate complex financial data into strategic narratives
  • Excellent communication: able to articulate financial insights to non-finance leaders
  • Demonstrate intellectual curiosity, problem-solving skills, and hunger to continually up-level current approaches and processes
  • Strong work ethic, reliability, and attention to detail
  • Willingness to roll up their sleeves with the team - “get it done” attitude
  • You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results

Nice to have

  • Experience with a high-growth SaaS company
  • Experience with Netsuite, Workday, Zip, and planning tools
  • Experience with usage-based pricing and cost structure

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Highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits

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