Head of Strategic Finance
Job Details
- Experience
- 2–4 years in banking or credit investing, followed by 4–8 years in operating roles at fast-paced, high-velocity global fintechs.
Requirements
- Ideal background includes 2–4 years in banking or credit investing, followed by 4–8 years in operating roles at fast-paced, high-velocity global fintechs.
- Operating experience is essential.
- Experience in a balance-sheet business such as lending, cards, or payments with facilities; pure SaaS Strategic Finance experience is not a fit.
- Experience building agentic automation and workflows with Claude or other models or harnesses to streamline financial analysis, modeling, reporting, and other finance workflows.
- Fluency in crypto and stablecoins, or the ability to develop it quickly; crypto-adjacent finance experience is a plus.
- Personally built and run at least one full budget and planning cycle.
- A strong track record of developing and mentoring a team of professionals.
- Comfortable presenting to a board of directors or institutional investors.
- Able to thrive in fast-paced, entrepreneurial, rapidly changing, hyper-growth environments and pivot as conditions change.
- Able to own processes end-to-end and operate as a player-coach.
Responsibilities
- Drive the Strategic Finance function and provide the leadership team with strategic recommendations supported by quantitative analysis and qualitative takeaways.
- Manage annual budgeting, forecasting, monthly performance analysis, headcount planning, and product forecasting.
- Design and run bottoms-up annual budgeting and headcount planning across the company.
- Own the consolidated operating model and long-range plan.
- Analyze and communicate unit economics across products and geographies, including fiat and crypto.
- Synthesize company and financial performance in monthly packages for leadership and the Board of Directors.
- Establish and run a budget-versus-actuals cadence with the leadership team.
- Build segment reporting and analyze financial and operational results to assess company performance.
- Partner with the Data team to provide insights and support a data-driven organization.
- Own board and investor materials with the President & CFO, manage the Strategic Finance systems and tooling roadmap, and partner with Finance, Capital Markets, Financial Operations, and Risk to incorporate the credit book into planning.