Head of Strategic Finance

✨TL;DR - Why This Role Matters Scribe is at a pivotal point in its growth, and we’re hiring a Head of Strategic Finance to help define how the company scales from here. This role will own company-wide planning, forecasting, and play a central role in shaping how we invest, prioritize, and grow as the business doubles in size. You’ll partner closely with our GTM teams to translate growth ambitions into clear financial tradeoffs and outcomes. This role is designed for someone who wants real ownership, real judgment, and the opportunity to build the financial operating rhythm for the next phase of a high-growth B2B SaaS company.

📌 About the Role

This role sits at the center of how Scribe plans, invests, and scales. You’ll own much of the company’s financial planning and analysis muscle, ensuring the business is making clear, disciplined decisions as we rapidly scale.

You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of planning — from building the annual operating plan and forecasts to ensuring they remain accurate over time. This means holding teams accountable to performance, driving re-forecasting when reality diverges from plan, and helping leadership understand the tradeoffs behind their choices. Finance is expected to be the arbiter of truth, and this role plays a central part in making sure the organization is operating from a single, trusted financial view.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You’ll work closely with leaders across GTM, Accounting, and Operations to translate strategy into execution, surface risks and opportunities, and force clarity when alignment stalls. While the role does not start with a large team, it carries broad influence, visibility, and responsibility — and offers the opportunity to shape how finance operates as the company scales.

In your first 3–12 months at Scribe, you will:

• Drive the planning process, including the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, budgets, and long-range planning, and hold teams accountable when performance diverges from plan

• Lead the development and maintenance of financial models to support strategic decision-making, ensuring alignment with the company’s growth objectives

• Identify and apply opportunities for AI and automation across finance to improve forecasting accuracy, decision speed, and how insights are delivered to the business

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate financial insight into action by surfacing tradeoffs, recommending paths forward, and pushing decisions to be made when ambiguity or misalignment persists

• Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and RevOps on revenue forecasting, capacity planning, and unit economics to ensure GTM plans are grounded in financial reality

• Enhance existing financial processes and systems to streamline operations and improve data accuracy, fostering a culture of accountability and performance; implementing planning tools, systems, and processes as scale demands

Success in this role looks like better decisions across the company: clearer plans, fewer surprises, stronger alignment, and leadership confident in where and how to invest.

🌎 Location

Hybrid (2-3 days a week) out of our San Francisco HQ or remote in NYC.

🧩 What Makes You a Great Fit

This role is best suited for someone who thrives in ambiguity, takes ownership seriously, and uses financial insight to drive real business outcomes. You don’t just analyze what’s happening — you push the business toward what should happen next.

You’ll be a great fit if:

• You have 10+ years of progressive finance experience with a background in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, and/or PE

• You’ve owned financial planning at a high-growth company and are comfortable being accountable for keeping plans accurate as the business evolves

• You’re comfortable taking a point of view in ambiguity — synthesizing messy inputs, setting assumptions, and driving alignment

• You consistently push beyond reporting to answer the “so what” and influence how the business prioritizes and invests

• You’re deeply hands-on and builder-minded, comfortable building models, processes, and structure from scratch

• You partner effectively with GTM leaders, understanding how sales, marketing, and revenue dynamics translate into financial outcomes

• You operate with ownership and bias to action, leading cross-functional initiatives and communicating complex ideas clearly

• Experience building and leading teams in fast-paced startup environments

If you’re reading this thinking, “that’s exactly how I operate,” we’d love to meet you.

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