Top Remote Finance Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The Strategic Finance Manager will lead financial planning, budgeting, renewal forecasting, and customer retention analysis. They will translate customer and financial data into executive insights, identify risks and opportunities, develop renewal metric governance, and support resource allocation. The role partners with Finance, Renewal Management, Customer Success, Data Science, Operations, and go-to-market teams while applying AI and automation to improve forecasting, reporting, and analytical efficiency.

Lead BFG’s growth-capital fundraising readiness by reviewing financials, building a 36-month integrated model, forecasting funding needs, analyzing debt and capital structures, conducting valuation, and preparing investor materials. Support investor research, due diligence, reporting standards, KPI dashboards, and management discussions while coordinating with legal and tax advisors. The engagement is milestone-based and remote, focused on preparing a profitable U.S. financial services company for a potential $750,000 raise.

Leads financial analysis, planning, reporting, forecasting, and data mining for assigned business segments. Manages monthly close activities, P&L reviews, accruals, reconciliations, journal entries, audits, and financial modeling. Partners with Operations, Finance, Accounting, IT, and Sales to identify financial drivers and present insights to leadership. Oversees projects, coaches junior professionals, and supports effective financial controls.

Own FP&A, COGS, services planning, AI and compute cost architecture, monthly close, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and financial reporting. Build cost models, automate reporting with SQL and Excel, track cloud and LLM spending, and advise leadership on pricing, hiring, infrastructure scaling, and strategic decisions.

Own strategic finance models connecting operational capacity, productivity, forecasting, unit economics, pricing, investment, and growth targets. Partner with cross-functional leaders on ROI analysis, scenario planning, board and investor reporting, and business decision-making. Lead forecasting, segment economics, and efficiency analysis in a high-growth environment.

Build and maintain driver-based operating models, manage forecasting and planning cycles, analyze budget variances, support headcount planning, and prepare executive and board reporting. Develop rigorous SaaS metrics, partner with Accounting, RevOps, Data, and business leaders, and conduct ad hoc analyses on pricing, unit economics, scenarios, and resource allocation.

Lead strategic finance and analytics for Airbnb’s incubation businesses. Build investment cases, financial models, forecasts, reporting frameworks, funnel analytics, unit economics, and capital allocation recommendations. Evaluate growth opportunities, returns, scalability, and business performance, then present clear recommendations to senior leadership. Partner cross-functionally with business, product, and analytics leaders in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Own usage-based revenue accounting, including journal entries, deferrals, recognition schedules, reconciliations, collections, month-end and year-end close. Manage accounts receivable, support annual audits, maintain revenue controls, integrate the billing ledger with Campfire, and automate accounting processes. Collaborate with finance, billing engineering, revenue operations, sales, and customers to ensure accurate and timely revenue reporting.

Leads financial performance, reporting, planning, controls, cost accounting, capital analysis, and operational finance for the U.S. Fresh Foods Division. Partners with executive and plant leadership to improve profitability, manufacturing performance, working capital, and cash flow. Oversees forecasting, budgeting, audits, SOX compliance, financial reporting, standard costing, inventory valuation, and capital investments while developing the finance organization and driving continuous improvement.

Create practical Excel templates, demo files, and use-case scenarios for accounting, FP&A, finance, operations, and marketing. Improve onboarding with clear demos, produce short guides and walkthroughs, and complete a sample Excel task and paid trial as part of the interview process.

Leads corporate revenue and gross profit modeling, tracking performance across sales channels, forecasting revenue and margins, identifying pricing opportunities and business risks, and delivering data-driven recommendations to leadership. The role develops financial simulations, standardized reports, and executive presentations while partnering with Sales, Operations, Kiosk Pricing, Device Processing, and Business Intelligence teams. It also supports sales execution automation and ad hoc strategic initiatives.

The Sr. Manager, Finance Systems Operations will enhance financial systems, manage data configurations, collaborate on system updates, and implement AI tools for improved financial processes.

Prepare monthly accounting entries, FX translation, reconciliations, consolidated financial statements and investor reports. Manage cashflow, payments, tax, audit, treasury, internal controls, product costing and KPIs. Lead finance team, coordinate with local firms, support strategic planning and cost-savings initiatives.

Leads operational project finance supporting clinical trials, including revenue recognition, forecasting, variance analysis, budgeting, invoicing, earned value analysis, contract review, and financial reporting. Manages and mentors financial analysts, coordinates with finance teams and project leaders, supports month-end close, identifies scope and budget variances, and serves as the financial lead for client business reviews.

Manages operational project finance, including revenue recognition, forecasting, variance analysis, budgeting, invoicing, earned value analysis, vendor and consultant spend, and financial reporting. Leads and mentors financial analysts, supports clinical trial project teams, reviews contracts and change orders, partners with Finance and project leaders, and presents financial results to executives and clients.

Owns card brand and bank invoice expense processes, accruals, reconciliations, reporting, and quarterly scheme submissions. Downloads and loads invoices, runs SQL queries, identifies billing anomalies and variances, reconciles expenses to the general ledger, creates bank invoices, and monitors opportunities for process improvement and cost reduction. The role supports finance leadership with research, reporting accuracy, and issue resolution.

Develop and execute credit risk strategies for consumer loan portfolios, analyzing bureau, cash flow, and behavioral data to improve losses, receivables, and revenue. Build datasets, dashboards, and monitoring infrastructure using SQL and analytical tools; forecast strategy impacts; support regulatory reviews, audits, and board reporting; ensure policy compliance; communicate underwriting changes; and lead independent analyses and projects. May supervise associates.

Lead Voltify’s finance strategy across equity fundraising, project finance, tax equity, lease facilities, infrastructure partnerships, deal design, financial modeling, public-company readiness, incentives, treasury, tax, legal coordination, and payments. Build a lean finance organization and establish scalable funding structures for battery locomotives, charging infrastructure, and microgrids.

Own monthly close activities across multiple entities, including reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany accounting, consolidations, and crypto subledger maintenance. Reconcile centralized and decentralized trading activity, prepare P&L schedules, manage billing and revenue tracking, support tax and entity structuring, maintain compliance documentation, and assist with payroll operations. Build financial models and reporting tools while coordinating with external accountants and institutional partners.

Own Freshpaint’s finance function, including accounting, monthly close, financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, runway, and SaaS financial metrics. Partner with the CEO, executive team, and go-to-market leaders on investment decisions, commercial economics, pricing, compensation, and growth planning. Manage internal and external finance resources, build scalable processes and models, maintain audit readiness, and develop board and investor reporting.

Leads Sales Finance FP&A, forecasting, budgeting, bookings governance, executive and board reporting, IPO readiness, audit support, controls, and M&A integration. Partners with Sales, Finance, Rev Ops, Customer Support, Professional Services, and other teams to improve decision-making and operational processes. Manages and mentors a distributed financial analyst team while using AI-enabled tools to improve planning, reconciliation, analysis, and presentations.

Lead strategic finance at a high-growth B2B software company. Responsibilities include investment analysis, resource allocation, annual planning, forecasting, unit economics, pricing and packaging analysis, finance systems roadmap development, board and investor reporting, and building a high-performing finance function. The role partners closely with executives, GTM, Product, RevOps, Data, and external implementation partners.

Lead corporate development, strategic finance, capital formation, fundraising, financial modeling, scenario analysis, and investment evaluation. Partner with the CEO, CFO, executive team, Board, and investors on strategic opportunities, financing transactions, business intelligence, market investigations, partnerships, and potential M&A. Develop actionable recommendations and help execute high-priority initiatives supporting the company’s growth and scale.

Supports consumer credit risk teams by translating lending strategies into business rules, scoring configurations, system changes, and decision logic. Responsibilities include model and strategy implementation, documentation, change control, testing, UAT, API and third-party integrations, compliance alignment, discrepancy analysis, and software release support. The role collaborates with Risk, Compliance, Scoring, and Technology teams to improve decisioning processes and ensure regulatory and business requirements are met.

Leads enterprise financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, budget-to-actual analysis, and strategic decision support across a complex multi-entity organization. Oversees finance systems, BI dashboards, process automation, grant budgeting, revenue modeling, and capacity analysis. Advises senior leaders, boards, and partners while supervising senior finance and fiscal teams and driving scalable planning processes, data integrity, and organizational change.