VP, Strategic Finance

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day.

Smartsheet is the enterprise work management platform where more than 120,000 organizations — including over 85% of the Fortune 500 — plan, track, automate, and report on work at scale.

The VP of Strategic Finance is a mission-critical leadership role responsible for the development and execution of Smartsheet 's long-term financial strategy. This role sits at the intersection of Finance, Product, and the Commercial strategy; responsible for architecting financial models, M&A analysis, new business model implementation, and other strategic initiatives. As the VP of Strategic Finance, you will accelerate business transformation while partnering closely with executive leadership, product, sales, and operations teams to translate ambition into financially sound, executable plans.

This role will report to the SVP of Financial Planning & Analysis and is eligible to work remotely within the United States.
You Will:

- Lead the development and execution of 3-5 year long-range financial models that incorporate multiple scenarios, key value drivers, and strategic initiatives to inform capital allocation and business priorities.

- Establish and drive top-down financial targets for annual planning cycles, translating strategic goals into financial outcomes and ensuring alignment across the organization.

- Partner with executive leadership to define strategic priorities and develop comprehensive business cases for all strategic initiatives, including NPV analysis, payback periods, risk assessment, and ROI methodology.

- Lead pricing strategy and packaging analysis, leveraging customer and market data to optimize revenue capture, positioning, and business model profitability.

- Lead financial due diligence, modeling, and valuation for M&A opportunities and corporate development initiatives; develop detailed integration financial plans and synergy case studies for acquisition targets.

- Partner with cross-functional leaders to ensure alignment on forecasts, business cases, pricing strategies, and financial assumptions.

- Provide vision, strategy, and direction to drive financial excellence and a data-driven culture across the organization.

- Build and lead a high-performing strategic finance team; recruit, develop, and mentor talent to create a center of financial excellence and drive a data-driven culture throughout the organization.

- Support executive leadership with board and investor communications; prepare financial presentations and materials for board committees, investor meetings, and earnings discussions.

- Establish strong partnerships with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Operations, and Marketing to align on business metrics, drive KPI alignment, and ensure financial insights inform cross-functional decision-making.

- Own and deliver outcomes to other strategic projects and initiatives as assigned.

You Have:

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA or CFA preferred.

- Minimum of 12 years of progressive finance experience in enterprise SaaS companies, with substantial FP&A and strategic finance responsibility.

- Prior experience leading and scaling teams preferred

- Demonstrated expertise in subscription and consumption-based business models, including ARR, MRR, renewal economics, customer unit economics, and SaaS metrics (CAC, LTV, gross margin, operating leverage, capital efficiency).

- Advanced financial modeling skills (Excel, Python, or equivalent) with the ability to build complex, dynamic models for multi-scenario pl