Head of Strategic Finance
Job Details
- Experience
- Ideally, 2–4 years in investment banking or credit investing, followed by 4–8 years in operating finance roles at fast-paced, high-growth global fintech companies.
Requirements
- Ideally, have 2–4 years in investment banking or credit investing followed by 4–8 years in operating finance roles at high-growth global fintech companies; direct operating experience is essential.
- Have experience in a balance-sheet business involving lending, corporate cards, payments, or credit facilities; SaaS strategic finance experience without balance-sheet exposure is not a fit.
- Bring hands-on experience building agentic automation and AI-powered workflows using Claude or other models and frameworks.
- Have strong familiarity with crypto and stablecoins, or the ability to develop that expertise quickly.
- Have personally built and run at least one complete budgeting and financial planning cycle.
- Be able to interpret complex financial and operational data, understand unit economics, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
- Be confident presenting financial insights and strategic recommendations to a Board of Directors, institutional investors, and senior leadership.
- Have a track record of developing, mentoring, and building high-performing finance teams.
- Be willing to build and improve processes end to end while leading the function and remaining directly involved in execution.
- Work effectively across Finance, Data, Capital Markets, Financial Operations, Risk, and other stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic finance function and establish planning processes for executive leadership.
- Manage annual budgets, periodic forecasts, monthly performance reviews, headcount planning, and product-level forecasting.
- Own the consolidated financial model and long-range plan.
- Analyze unit economics and product and geographic performance across fiat and crypto offerings.
- Produce monthly performance packages and decision-oriented reporting for leadership and the Board.
- Implement budget-versus-actuals reviews, identify variances, and support corrective actions.
- Build segment reporting frameworks and partner with Data to improve financial analytics and reporting.
- Collaborate on Board presentations, investor reporting, and other stakeholder materials.
- Own the strategic finance systems and tooling roadmap and modernize financial infrastructure.
- Integrate credit performance, facility utilization, losses, liquidity, and capital efficiency into financial plans; build and mentor the team.