Head of Strategic Finance

Overview

This remote US-based role (with preference for candidates in the New York City area) leads the organization’s Strategic Finance planning function. Reporting to the President & CFO, you will own key strategic financial initiatives, corporate-level forecasting and budgeting, and support leadership with strategic recommendations grounded in quantitative analysis.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Strategic Finance function and support the leadership team with strategic recommendations, combining quantitative analysis with qualitative insights
• Own key financial processes, including:
  • Annual budgeting
  • Forecasting
  • Monthly performance analysis
  • Headcount planning
  • Product forecasting
• Design and run bottoms-up annual budgeting and headcount planning across the company
• Own the consolidated operating model and long-range plan
• Deeply understand and communicate unit economics across all products and geographies, including FIAT and crypto
• Synthesize company and financial performance into a monthly performance package for the leadership team and the Board of Directors
• Set up and run a budget-vs-actuals (BvA) cadence with leadership
• Build segment reporting to provide clear visibility into business performance
• Analyze financial and operational results to assess overall financial health and performance
• Partner with the Data team to help evolve the organization into a data-driven environment and provide insights to leadership
• Own high-impact board and investor materials in partnership with the President & CFO
• Manage Strategic Finance internal systems and tooling roadmap for infrastructure used by Strategic Finance and the broader finance organization
• Partner with Finance, Capital Markets, Financial Operations, and Risk to bring the credit book into the plan (facility utilization, losses, etc.) to ensure capital efficiency while scaling globally—planning growth, liquidity, and returns as a single system

Requirements

• Ideal background: 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)
• Background in a balance-sheet business (lending, cards, or payments with facilities). Pure SaaS Strategic Finance experience is not a fit for this role
• AI-native: experience building agentic automation and workflows with Claude (or other models/tools) to streamline financial analysis, modeling, reporting, and other finance workflows
• Fluent in crypto/stables, or able to get there fast (crypto-adjacent finance experience is a plus)
• Personally built and run at least one full budget and planning cycle
• Experience developing and mentoring professionals into a high-performance team
• Ability to thrive in entrepreneurial, fast-paced, rapid-change, hyper-growth environments; agile and able to pivot quickly
• Comfortable presenting to a board of directors or institutional investors
• “Build, not maintain” mindset; ability to own processes end-to-end (player-coach expectations)

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified in the provided job description

Location

• Remote US-based role with preference for candidates in the New York City area

Accessibility / Accommodation

• The organization uses AI-assisted tools to support application review and related interview scheduling/notes; advance/decline decisions are made by a person. For details or to request an accommodation or an alternative to any AI-assisted step, follow the accommodation request process described by the employer.