Top Senior Finance Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead strategic finance initiatives, corporate development, M&A evaluation, pricing strategy, business cases, and cross-functional financial analysis. Partner with executives and teams across Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Operations to evaluate growth opportunities, ROI, unit economics, and build-versus-buy decisions. Develop KPI reporting frameworks, AI-enabled analysis, automated workflows, and executive recommendations.

Evaluates AI-generated FP&A and corporate finance documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for accuracy, rigor, factual correctness, visual quality, and domain expertise. Provides structured written feedback using quality rubrics. This is a fully remote, flexible independent contractor engagement requiring at least five years of relevant experience and strong proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.

Leads revenue accounting and commercial finance, overseeing ASC 606 compliance, revenue close, accrual models, controls, audits, forecasting, financial planning, and commercial business cases. Partners with Accounting, Revenue Cycle, Market Access, Commercial, and analytics teams to assess payer and reimbursement impacts, analyze complex datasets, improve reporting, and provide executive decision support. Manages and develops a small finance team.

Own GTM strategic finance for a high-growth AI infrastructure company, including consumption revenue forecasting, deal desk governance, pricing and margin management, sales compensation, quota planning, financial modeling, KPI analytics, and strategic partnership with GTM leadership and Finance. The role requires advising on deals, building scalable frameworks, and translating data into actionable recommendations.

The Finance Manager will oversee financial planning, investment strategy, and operational rigor, particularly focusing on R&D. They will partner with Engineering, Product, and leadership teams to analyze and forecast financial performance, support financial decision-making, and drive process improvements in budgeting and reporting.

Own Fetch’s user-focused financial models, including LTV/CAC, acquisition, retention, forecasting, and unit economics. Build SQL-powered data infrastructure, investigate anomalies, and partner with Data to resolve issues. Support forecast cycles, answer Finance and Growth questions, surface strategic insights, and translate user economics into clear narratives for leadership and investors. The role requires strong financial modeling, FP&A, SQL, data analysis, communication, and independent problem-solving skills in a fast-paced environment.

Reviews and grades AI-generated finance operations and audit support documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks for accuracy, rigor, domain quality, factual correctness, aesthetics, and presentation. Provides structured written feedback using domain-specific rubrics in a fully remote, flexible independent-contractor engagement.

Serve as FP&A partner to Consumer leadership owning forecasting, budgeting, and driver-based financial models. Deliver monthly variance analysis, partner with Accounting, and translate financial insights into resource-allocation recommendations. Lead business-review presentations and conduct deep-dive analyses to find efficiency opportunities across Consumer operational spend.

Provide CFO-level FP&A partnership to multiple C-level leaders across People, Legal, Compliance, Policy, and Finance. Lead a team to build financial models, scenario analyses, and business cases that guide company-wide resource allocation and investments. Drive reporting, variance analysis, process improvements, and the vision for finance partnering, aligning budgets, forecasts, and headcount planning with executive priorities.

Serves as a senior functional subject matter expert for Workday Financials, designing and configuring finance processes, business rules, reports, security, and integrations. Leads requirements gathering, enhancements, release management, testing, UAT, issue resolution, root-cause analysis, documentation, and audit readiness. Partners with Accounting, Payroll, Procurement, HR, Grants, IT, and other stakeholders to optimize financial workflows, controls, reporting, and system operations across multiple finance platforms.

Leads Cengage’s royalty payments and product finance operations, including royalty models, contributor payments, product data, system ownership, reporting, audit support, and risk control. The role manages a team, develops scalable processes, oversees data setup across finance systems, drives complex improvement initiatives, resolves contributor issues, and presents analyses and recommendations to executive leaders.

Serve as the finance partner to Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success leadership. Own GTM planning, forecasting, capacity and ARR modeling, commissions analysis, variance reporting, SaaS metrics, unit economics, ROI modeling, and financial process automation. Translate complex analyses into executive recommendations, improve planning systems, and support compensation plan design and GTM investment decisions.

The Assistant Vice President, Commercial Surety will support underwriting and marketing strategy, manage regional production targets, and develop distribution partner relationships while mentoring junior team members.

Leads strategic finance for a portfolio of programs, managing budgeting, quarterly forecasting, variance reviews, expense projections, financial models, ROI and cost analyses, and executive reporting. Partners with program leaders and cross-functional teams to identify risks, opportunities, and resource needs. Translates complex financial analysis into actionable recommendations and serves as the finance expert for assigned programs.

Lead finance transformation projects, advising CFOs on operational improvements, managing client relationships, and mentoring team members.

The Finance Transformation Manager leads finance projects, improves finance processes, enables technology, and supports change for clients' financial transformations.

Manage and expand existing equipment finance relationships in the construction vertical across a multi-state territory. Originate new financing opportunities, assess borrower credit and collateral, provide industry intelligence, support senior management with sales training, and ensure adherence to risk, regulatory, and internal control standards.

Lead strategic financial analysis and the integrated 3-statement Long Range Plan. Build investor-grade models, valuations, and cash/liquidity forecasts. Support fundraising and M&A diligence, benchmark competitors, and partner with leadership and FP&A to align short- and long-term financial planning.

Serve as outsourced accountant and financial advisor for a portfolio of schools. Manage full-cycle accounting (AP, payroll, grants), close books, prepare monthly financial statements, support annual audits and 990 preparation, liaise with authorizers/SEAs, analyze and model financial issues, and provide high-quality client service while supporting internal team growth.

Lead AI-enabled financial planning and strategic analysis, build data-backed business cases, refine unit economics, deliver executive-level insights, integrate ML into FP&A, and track KPIs to drive profitability and strategic decisions.

The Sales Finance Manager will oversee financial strategy, planning, budgeting, and performance tracking, collaborating with department leaders and managing a finance team.

Own FP&A for a high-growth AI grocery startup: build and run forecasting, budgeting, and long-range plans; analyze variances; develop KPIs and dashboards; partner cross-functionally; prepare board-quality analysis; model scenarios for strategic decisions; and drive AI-enabled process improvements.

Partner with Sales, Credit Risk, Legal, Product, and Capital Markets to model and price credit deals, build life-of-loan portfolio and vintage models, stress-test revenue-share and capital scenarios, support sponsor bank and capital provider pitches, lead deal reviews, and develop AI-enabled tools and dashboards to scale credit deal modeling and decisioning.

Own the Credit Card business unit’s P&L, forecasting, variance analysis, reporting, planning, and unit economics. Partner with Credit, Product, Marketing, and Data Science leaders to evaluate initiatives, interpret portfolio performance, identify risks and opportunities, and guide strategic decisions. Build dashboards and automated reporting, improve AI-enabled finance workflows, and present financial insights to executive and board-level audiences.

Supports health plan finance through monthly close, budgeting, forecasting, regulatory reporting, financial modeling, variance analysis, and ad hoc leadership reporting. Evaluates financial information, investigates discrepancies, develops finance policies and procedures, and recommends actions related to investments, operations, product development, and regulatory initiatives. Collaborates with technical and non-technical stakeholders and manages multiple deadlines.