Director, Strategic Finance

Title: Director, Strategic FinanceLocation: Remote USReports To: Head of Finance
Who We Are:HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1,000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home. To learn more about HighLevel, check out our website and the announcement highlighting our recent investment from General Atlantic.
Our Customers:HighLevel serves a diverse customer base, including over 60K marketing agencies & entrepreneurs, and 450K businesses globally. Our customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises, spanning various industries and sectors.
Who You AreHighLevel is seeking an experienced Director, Strategic Finance to build out the function and implement AI-first analytical + financial frameworks to influence decision making for our most business-critical questions. You will partner directly with senior leaders across the business to help inform resource allocation, define operational and financial KPIs, own long-range financial revenue modeling and most importantly, proactively identify opportunities to drive growth or improve profitability. We are looking for someone with a strong track record of leading a strategic finance function in a high-growth private/public company, partnering with financial and non-financial stakeholders to influence key business decisions using data and building a high-performing team. You will report directly to the Head of Finance.

What You Will Do:

• Functional Ownership: Lead our strategic finance function, play a central role in defining how the team partners across the organization and act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders to help influence + quantify key business decisions
• Strategic Planning & Forecasting: Own and improve the company’s long-range financial model for our subscription, usage-based and payments products, embedding deeply across the business to identify, quantify and capture changes in GTM, product strategy, operational efficiency, etc.
• Decision Support: Partner with senior leaders across Product, Marketing, Sales & Operations to provide financial insights and scenario analysis supporting strategic initiatives, resource allocation, and investment decisions by leveraging an in-depth understanding of market dynamics, unit economics, pricing strategies, etc. - helping ensure financial assumptions translate into measurable outcomes
• Corporate Development Support: Collect and analyze external financial/operational data, and interpret market trends and competitor activities to deliver benchmarking analysis and influence decision making for key stakeholders, including management and investors.
• Board & Investor Materials: Prepare and present strategic financial insights, forecasts, and KPIs to the board of directors, investors, and executive stakeholders.
• Business Case Development: Build robust operational + financial models for major projects, including ROI, LTV/CAC and payback analysis, to help teams quantify trade-offs between driving growth + profitability / articulate compelling financial narratives
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Lead cross-departmental financial projects and drive alignment across teams on budgeting, resource planning, and strategic goals.
• KPI Development & Tracking: Define and track key performance indicators across Sales & Marketing, Product, Support, etc. and lead performance measurement initiatives to drive accountability and transparency.
• Team and Culture Building: Hire, mentor and guide other finance team members, fostering a high-performance, collaborative and data-driven culture. Architect scalable team structures, workflows, and governance models that support business growth without sacrificing control / quality.
• AI-enabled Process Improvement: Identify and spearhead opportunities to leverage AI-based tools to streamline existing close / improve precision of  forecasting processes, helping unlock team capacity to focus on other ad-hoc or high-impact analysis

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field (MBA or CFA preferred).
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