In today's dynamic worksites, seamless collaboration between people and machines is essential. FORT's platform ensures safe, secure, and dynamic control that surpasses legacy systems and next-generation AI capabilities.
While autonomous machines offer significant advantages, they also introduce new safety challenges. FORT addresses these concerns by providing solutions such as the Wireless E-Stop, which allows operators to instantly stop any machine from a safe distance, enhancing safety during emergencies.
Additionally, FORT's Safe Remote Control enables operators to manage heavy machinery remotely, reducing the risk of accidents and improving visibility.
By ensuring communications integrity across any network, FORT empowers customers to protect their most valuable assets—people, data, and machines—ensuring they remain safe and secure.
We need a strategic finance leader who can turn a lean finance team into a public-company-grade FP&A function. You will own planning, forecasting, and performance management, and you will be a central voice in how FORT allocates capital and drives its financial story.
This is not a maintain-the-model role. You will design the operating cadence, build the team, select the FPA tools, and partner with the CFO and executive team on the de-SPAC transaction and life after listing: long-term planning, guidance, and earnings.
Key responsibilities
Strategic planning and business partnership
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CFO, CEO, and executive team on growth strategy, pricing, product investment, and capital allocation.
- Lead the long-range plan (3–5 years) and annual operating plan, connecting strategy to resource decisions.
- Build scenario and sensitivity analyses that inform major decisions, including market expansion, hiring pace, and new product lines.
- Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Operations leaders to translate business drivers into financial outcomes.
Build the FP&A function
- Design and stand up FP&A from the ground up: processes, calendar, operating cadence, and governance.
- Hire, lead, and develop a high-performing team of direct reports; define roles and a scalable org plan.
- Select and implement planning and BI tools (e.g., Adaptive, Pigment, Anaplan or similar) integrated with the ERP and CRM.
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Establish a single source of truth for KPIs, including ARR or recurring revenue, bookings, gross margin by product line, unit economics, etc.
De-SPAC and public-company readiness
- Own the financial projections underpinning the de-SPAC transaction, including the model used in investor presentations and proxy/registration statement materials.
- Support the CFO in diligence with the SPAC sponsor, PIPE investors, bankers, auditors, and legal counsel.
- Build public-company forecasting rigor: monthly and quarterly forecasts with variance analysis tight enough to support external guidance.
- Help establish investor relations processes: guidance framework, earnings preparation, consensus tracking and board/investor materials.
- Work with Accounting and Controllership to support SEC reporting, SOX readiness, and controls around forecasting and projections.
Performance management and reporting
Qualifications
Required
- 12+ years of progressive finance experience, with 5+ years leading FP&A teams.
- Track record of building or substantially scaling an FP&A function at a growth-stage company.
- Direct experience taking a company public (IPO, de-SPAC, or direct listing) or leading FP&A at a public company.
- Strategic mindset: comfortable shaping decisions, not only reporting on them, and able to push back with data.
- Expert financial modeling skills: three-statement, driver-based, and scenario models built to withstand investor and auditor scrutiny.
- Strong executive presence and communication skills; able to present clearly to boards, investors, and non-finance leaders.
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Proven people leader who can recruit, coach, and retain talent in a remote environment.
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AI-first culture: hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., LLM assistants, AI-enabled planning and BI platforms) to automate reporting, improve forecasting and analysis with sound judgment on accuracy, data security and controls
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Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field.
Preferred
- Experience in robotics, industrial technology, hardware-plus-software or IoT businesses with mixed hardware, SaaS and services revenue.
- Familiarity with SEC reporting, SOX controls, and public-company guidance practices.
- Experience implementing planning platforms and ERP integrations.
- MBA and/or CPA or CFA.
- Background in investment banking, private equity, or corporate development.
Base salary range: $170,000-$280,000
Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision insurance; unlimited PTO; stock options; 3% 401(k) match, paid holidays, and parental leave.
Application window: Applications accepted through the end of December 2026. This date will be updated if the window is extended.
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