What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Strategic Finance position at Simplex?
This role is in-office in Austin, TX. You must be local or willing to re-locate.
Our client is a well-funded multi-site services / technology company headquartered in Austin, TX. Our business model is unique and we're looking for someone curious who's excited to learn everything and dive right into learn. This role will include base salary equity.
The Director of Strategic Finance blends scrappy execution, financial modeling, traditional Finance (ledger, GAAP, revenue recognition) and strategic partnership. We're looking for a high-potential finance leader to build financial rigor from the trenches and partner with the CEO and fractional controller to prepare for a growth round of investment. This role would naturally move towards a VP / CFO position as the company hits key milestones. We are open to both a Director or someone ready for the step up into a VP role however this is a finance team of 1 as it stands today and you must be comfortable operating very hands-on.
Key Responsibilities
- Own forecasting, budgeting, and managerial accounting: Build models for territory/metro performance, waterfall forecasts, and growth targets.
- Dive into ledgers: Spot/fix errors, recognize revenue/costs (e.g., GAAP gaps), and integrate with fractional controller for clean data flow to models.
- Pull and analyze data: Track churn risks, service response impacts, profitability by home manager/territory, and investor KPIs—share regularly with ops/product teams.
- Strategic flex: Format board decks, negotiate leases, send out employee W2s, support PE/VC converations
Qualifications
- 5 years in Strategic Finance experience with emphasis on FP&A (forecasting, financial analysis, and modeling) as well as traditional Finance (ledger work, GAAP, revenue recognition) and broader strategic business partnering.
- Experience in similar growth-stage, fast paced, lean startup companies. We are industry agnostic.
- Interest in a hands-on / doer role, and excited to grow in other areas of responsibility/leadership.
- Accounting literacy: You have the ability to look at a ledger, ask the right questions and fix things where needed.
- Technical chops: Excel wizardry; bonus for BI/data pulls (replacing ad-hoc analyst work) and tools like Metabase/AWS.
- Mindset: Curious creator, scrappy doer, high-potential winner
- Experience: Junior-to-mid level OK if hands-dirty (Series A/B buildouts); ops/logistics exposure ideal. PE/VC familiarity a plus
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Salary : $150,000 - $180,000