Strategic Finance Manager

Overview

The organization is seeking a Strategic Finance Manager to drive the financial strategy behind high-priority growth initiatives across strategic partnerships, product monetization, M&A, and other revenue opportunities. This role owns complex, executive-facing financial analysis that informs capital allocation, commercial opportunity structuring, strategic transaction evaluation, and scalable planning for new products.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex financial modeling for strategic priorities, including major commercial partnerships, ecosystem incentives, new product launches, M&A, investment opportunities, and long-range growth initiatives.
• Own product-level financial models covering revenue and profitability drivers, including transaction revenue, subscription and services revenue, platform monetization, product unit economics, customer economics, and scenario-based revenue forecasting.
• Partner with Product, Business Development, Corporate Development, and GTM leaders to evaluate monetization models, partnership structures, pricing constructs, margin tradeoffs, and capital allocation decisions.
• Build and maintain investment-grade models for executive decision-making, including revenue builds, sensitivity analyses, valuation frameworks, synergy cases, downside scenarios, cohort economics, and ROI/payback analyses.
• Translate complex analysis into clear, compelling executive narratives for CFO/CCO reviews, operating reviews, Board materials, strategic planning, and cross-functional decision forums.
• Identify key drivers, risks, and tradeoffs across strategic initiatives and provide clear recommendations aligned to business outcomes.
• Develop financial frameworks to evaluate build/buy/partner decisions, including market sizing, strategic rationale, integration considerations, investment requirements, and financial return profiles.
• Partner with Accounting, Legal, Tax, Treasury, and Data teams to ensure models reflect operational realities, accounting considerations, regulatory constraints, and data integrity requirements.
• Use AI and automation tools to improve the speed, quality, and scalability of financial analysis, including model QA, data synthesis, scenario generation, workflow automation, and executive-ready output creation.
• Create repeatable planning and reporting infrastructure for emerging revenue streams as products mature.
• Proactively identify gaps in reporting, model architecture, and decision-making processes, then build practical solutions to improve strategic finance support across the organization.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of relevant experience, ideally including 2-4 years in investment banking and/or private equity plus 2+ years in strategic finance, corporate development, or FP&A at a fast-paced, high-growth technology, fintech, crypto, payments, marketplace, or AI company.
• Elite financial modeling skills, including demonstrated ability to build robust, flexible, and executive-ready models from ambiguous inputs across revenue, margins, unit economics, valuation, M&A, partnerships, and scenario planning.
• Strong commercial and strategic judgment—ability to evaluate not only model outputs, but the decision the business should make.
• Excellent executive communication skills, including synthesizing complex analysis into concise narratives, recommendations, and board/CFO-ready materials.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive alignment across Product, Business Development, Corporate Development, Accounting, Legal, Data, and Finance.
• Experience supporting strategic partnerships, product monetization, M&A, corporate development, new business incubation, or other high-priority growth initiatives.
• High ownership and comfort with ambiguity; ability to independently structure problems, define the analytical approach, identify required inputs, and drive workstreams to completion.
• AI proficiency with hands-on experience using AI tools to improve financial analysis, research, automation, data interpretation, and communication quality.
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheets modeling skills and strong Google Slides / PowerPoint presentation capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree required; finance, economics, accounting, mathematics, engineering, or a similarly analytical field preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of SaaS, fintech, payments, marketplaces, crypto, or platform business models; familiarity with stablecoins, digital assets, or financial infrastructure.
• Experience with Oracle, Salesforce, Workday or other financial and data systems.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Pay Range: $140,000 - $185,000
• Starting pay is determined by factors including relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.

Equal Opportunity

The organization is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where it hires.