Director - Financial Planning & Analysis; FP&A)

What You Will Do

Clear speed is redefining risk assessment with AI-powered voice analytics that help organizations clear low-risk individuals faster while flagging the few who warrant closer scrutiny across insurance, government, financial services, and beyond. As the company accelerates toward its next phase of growth, we are building the financial infrastructure to match.

• Hybrid:
  In-office 3x per week
• Full-Time with benefits
• Travel 5-10%

Clear speed is redefining risk assessment with AI-powered voice analytics that help organizations clear low-risk individuals faster while flagging the few who warrant closer scrutiny across insurance, government, financial services, and beyond. As the company accelerates toward its next phase of growth, we are building the financial infrastructure to match.

This role will lead an internal maturation within the Finance function, moving from foundational department budgets and models to a disciplined, forward-looking planning architecture: consolidated forecasts, spend management frameworks, scenario analyses, and the KPI infrastructure that lets leadership make high-confidence decisions with confidence.

If you are energized by building from the ground up, comfortable working closely with a new CFO to define what great looks like, and excited by a company with both commercial and government momentum, this is a rare opportunity to shape the financial operating model of a mission-driven, high-growth technology company.

• Own the annual budgeting process end-to-end, building rigorous department-level budgets that create real accountability across the business.
• Establish a quarterly forecasting cadence that gives leadership a clear, rolling view of financial performance and resource requirements.
• Develop long-range financial models that translate Clear speed’s strategic priorities into multi-year revenue, headcount, and investment plans.
• Build and maintain consolidated financial models reflecting Clear speed’s multi-entity, multi-currency operations across the US, Canada, and EMEA.

• Partner with the CFO to identify where the business can and should invest, and where it should hold the line, using data-driven analysis of returns and trade-offs.
• Establish spend visibility frameworks that allow department leaders to manage their budgets with transparency and accountability.
• Proactively surface financial risks and opportunities, providing leadership with the analysis needed to act decisively.

• Own monthly management reporting and variance analysis, translating financial results into clear, actionable narratives for executives and business unit leaders.
• Develop and maintain ARR, MRR, and revenue models tailored to Clear speed’s commercial and public sector business, including usage-based dynamics.
• Build and scale KPI infrastructure that connects financial outcomes to operational drivers across GTM, product, and operations.
• Partner with the CFO to develop board-level financial presentations and scenario analyses that build investor confidence.
• Manage the end-to-end administration, including processing, tracking, and reporting of sales commissions for the go-to-market team.

• Partner with accounting to align forecast and close processes, ensuring a single source of financial truth across the organization.
• Support government and public sector financial planning, including program-level budgeting and an understanding of government contracting structures.

• Build the FP&A function from the ground up: tools, processes, systems, and, over time, team.
• Establish FP&A as a trusted partner to every part of the business, not a back-office function.
• Mentor and grow FP&A team members as Clear speed’s needs evolve.

You are a rigorous, commercially minded finance leader who knows what it takes to build a planning function, not just run one. You have operated in fast-growing global technology companies, understand what “good” looks like at scale, and are energized by the work of getting there. You are as comfortable in the…