This Strategic Finance position is based in San Francisco with fal, a generative media ecosystem company powering next-generation AI products. The role suits an independent, high-agency finance professional ready to drive company growth, financial modeling, and systems implementation without daily oversight.
Role Overview
fal seeks a strategic finance partner to collaborate across departments on financial consolidations, KPI tracking, systems deployment, and critical projects. Operating within a flat organization, this position handles complex problems autonomously, requiring individuals to scope issues, analyze data, and present informed recommendations directly to leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Take charge of segments regarding company-wide financial forecasting, budgeting, and planning.
Build and maintain bottoms-up revenue models covering various product lines and go-to-market motions, monitoring actual results against targets and providing actionable insights.
Spearhead the deployment of FP&A software along with other financial systems like ERP and procurement tools.
Collaborate closely with the accounting and data teams to ensure monthly revenue reporting delivers accurate product and customer-level breakdowns.
Construct dashboards providing leadership with real-time visibility into vital performance metrics relative to plans and forecasts.
Investigate data sets independently to detect errors, identify solutions, and collaborate with relevant teams to implement fixes.
Leverage modern artificial intelligence tools to automate routine financial tasks and workflows.
Requirements
Bring six or more years of professional background, ideally starting in investment banking for modeling rigor, followed by private equity or growth investing with deal ownership experience, or relevant in-house strategic finance experience at a high-growth startup.
Demonstrate high agency with a proven ability to independently own ambiguous challenges and drive them through to completion.
Act as an independent thinker capable of forming well-defended viewpoints and making definitive decisions.
Display career intentionality, curiosity, and strong communication skills.
Possess the capability to read, validate, and troubleshoot data tables and metrics independently.
Demonstrate working knowledge of fundamental accounting principles such as deferred revenue, billings, accounts receivable, and revenue recognition, with the ability to explain them clearly to non-finance partners.
Exhibit advanced financial modeling capabilities to transform complicated data into clear business recommendations.
Maintain a mature, low-ego, high-urgency working style suited for a fast-changing artificial intelligence environment.
Nice to Have
Background working within cloud computing, artificial intelligence, or large-scale infrastructure sectors.
Prior involvement in deploying contemporary FP&A software platforms.
Demonstrated history of building or utilizing artificial intelligence tools for financial workflow automation.
Skills and Tools
Financial modeling
FP&A software implementation
ERP and procurement systems
Data reading and validation (including working with tools like BigQuery or reading SQL data tables)
Accounting concept comprehension (revenue recognition, billings, AR, deferred revenue)
AI-driven workflow automation
Salary and Benefits
Annual salary range between $180,000 and $220,000 USD.
Competitive equity and benefits package.
About the Company
fal builds the infrastructure, tools, and model access that allow development and enterprise teams to scale generative media seamlessly from initial idea to production. Operating as a flat organization with minimal hierarchy, the company moves rapidly to support ambitious teams building artificial intelligence-native products in a fast-growing market.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should visit the official fal careers page online to submit an application for this position.
