What are the responsibilities and job description for the Head of Strategic Finance position at Guardify?
About Guardify
We are a leading digital evidence management platform company building technology that helps law enforcement, prosecutors, child advocacy organizations, and other frontline professionals securely capture, manage, understand, and share critical digital evidence.
Our platform is built for environments where security, integrity, and trust matter. As we expand our products and markets, we're building a company designed to scale both organically and through acquisition.
The Role
The Director of Finance will play a pivotal role in driving Guardify's growth and helping leadership make informed decisions about where and how we invest.
This is much more than a reporting or accounting role. You'll serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and leadership team, building the financial models that guide capital allocation, product and market investment, hiring, pricing, and M&A decisions.
You'll also play a central role in M&A diligence and integration, fundraising preparation, investor and Board reporting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning.
What You'll Own
- Build and maintain the company's financial operating model across bookings, revenue, ARR, cash, headcount, capacity, margin, and investment decisions.
- Own contribution P&L methodology and allocation of shared costs.
- Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, cash and runway modeling, hiring plans, and financial scenario planning.
- Own financial models, reporting packages, and preparation for Board and investor conversations.
- Partner with the CEO on capital allocation and investment decisions.
- Establish pricing guardrails and help leaders understand unit economics, margins, CAC, and payback.
- Lead financial diligence, transaction modeling, valuation support, and post-close financial integration for acquisitions.
- Support equity raises, debt facilities, lender relationships, capitalization modeling, and financing strategy.
- Build financial decision-making tools that help leadership evaluate hiring, product, acquisition, and investment opportunities.
What We're Looking For (aka Job Requirements)
- A strategic finance leader who can operate as a business partner, not simply report financial results.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities with the judgment to translate financial data into business decisions.
- Experience building financial and allocation methodologies within a multi-product, multi-market, or multi-business-unit organization.
- Strong understanding of SaaS economics and the complexities of businesses combining software, hardware, services, acquisitions, and shared technology infrastructure.
- Ability to move comfortably between detailed financial models, leadership discussions, acquisition diligence, and Board-level presentations.
- Experience with a capital raise and at least one acquisition or integration is strongly preferred.
- Experience with debt financing, recurring-revenue businesses, software/hardware economics, or private-equity/venture-backed companies is particularly valuable.
- Ability to challenge assumptions, defend financial methodologies, and communicate complex financial concepts to operating leaders.
- A forward-looking mindset focused on using finance to help the company make better decisions about what happens next.