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Salary: USD 225,000 - 300,000 / annual
Ethos is a life insurance technology company transforming how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten through a three-sided platform serving consumers, agents, and carriers. The company offers instant, accessible products with no medical exams required, democratizing access to life insurance.
You will serve as Senior Director of Strategic Finance, playing a central role in defining the company's financial plan and providing financial and operational decision support to cross-functional partners. This is a high-visibility executive role requiring you to scale and improve corporate finance functions, drive financial planning processes, and develop strategic analyses on key business initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Implementing new processes and improving financial controls to ensure business health and stability as the company scales
- Owning and driving financial planning and budgeting processes, playing a critical role in resource allocation and guiding company growth trajectory
- Developing and monitoring critical financial performance metrics; driving key corporate reporting to the Board and Executive Team (KPI tracking, performance to plan, budget variance analysis)
- Contributing to the design and implementation of accounting and planning tools (NetSuite, Pigment, etc.)
- Driving high-impact strategic and operational initiatives, delivering business analytics and insights on unit economics, customer acquisition, operations, and new opportunities
- Applying data-driven analytical approaches to influence decision-making and support leadership in evaluating strategic initiatives
This is a fast-paced, analytically rigorous, mission-driven environment where you will solve complex challenges at a rapidly-scaling startup with high visibility across the executive team.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Minimum 12 years of relevant work experience in Corporate Finance, FP&A, or Strategic Finance, preferably including 3+ years at publicly traded companies or late-stage pre-IPO companies
- Prior experience in investment banking and/or private equity/growth equity is a plus
- Best-in-class Excel skills with extensive experience developing insightful financial models and quantitative analyses
- Strong critical thinking and sound business judgment
- Prior experience building and leading finance teams
- Proven track record of identifying and deploying AI tools in finance workflows to improve efficiency and decision-making
- Expert-level proficiency in enterprise financial planning systems (e.g., Adaptive, Anaplan)
- Motivated self-starter with proven success juggling multiple projects while meeting deadlines
- Excellent communication skills and effective cross-functional collaboration abilities
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Deep understanding of valuation methods and strong working knowledge of GAAP
