Head of Strategic Finance in United States at Jobgether

You will lead the strategic finance function, establish robust planning processes, and serve as a trusted partner to executive leadership. Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead strategic financial planning: Develop quantitative analyses and actionable recommendations to support company-wide strategic decisions, translating financial results into clear business implications.

• Own budgeting and forecasting: Manage annual budgets, periodic forecasts, monthly performance reviews, headcount planning, and product-level forecasting. Design and lead bottom-up budgeting and workforce planning across the organization.

• Maintain the consolidated operating model: Own the company's financial model and long-range plan, ensuring they reflect business priorities, growth assumptions, and financial objectives.

• Analyze unit economics: Develop a deep understanding of product and geographic performance across fiat and crypto offerings, including different currencies, payment rails, and blockchain networks.

• Deliver executive and Board reporting: Produce monthly performance packages for leadership and the Board, consolidating financial and operational results into clear, decision-oriented insights.

• Establish budget accountability: Implement and maintain a budget-versus-actuals (BvA) review cadence with leadership, identifying variances, assessing their drivers, and supporting corrective actions.

• Develop segment reporting: Build reporting frameworks that provide visibility into performance across business segments, products, and geographies.

• Strengthen data-driven decision-making: Partner closely with the Data team to improve financial analytics, reporting capabilities, and the use of data in strategic and operational decisions.

• Prepare investor materials: Collaborate with the President and CFO on high-impact Board presentations, investor reporting, and other materials supporting stakeholder engagement.

• Modernize financial infrastructure: Own the strategic finance systems and tooling roadmap, improving the infrastructure used by the broader Finance organization.

• Integrate credit and capital planning: Partner with Finance, Capital Markets, Financial Operations, and Risk to incorporate credit portfolio performance, facility utilization, and losses into financial plans.

• Optimize capital efficiency: Ensure growth, liquidity, credit risk, and financial returns are planned together to support the sustainable scaling of a global financial services business.

• Build and mentor the team: Develop finance professionals, establish high-performance standards, and maintain a hands-on leadership approach that combines strategic direction with execution.

The ideal candidate brings a combination of financial services experience, operational finance leadership, advanced analytical skills, and a strong appetite for building scalable processes in a rapidly evolving business. Candidates should demonstrate the following:

• Relevant professional background: 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. Direct operating experience is essential.

• Balance-sheet business experience: Background in a business involving lending, corporate cards, payments, or credit facilities. Experience limited to SaaS strategic finance without balance-sheet exposure is not a fit for this role.

• AI-native finance capabilities: Hands-on experience building agentic automation and AI-powered workflows using Claude or other models and frameworks to improve financial analysis, modeling, reporting, and broader finance operations.

• Crypto and stablecoin knowledge: Strong familiarity with crypto and stablecoins, or the ability to develop that expertise quickly. Crypto-adjacent financial experience is an advantage.

• End-to-end planning expertise: Personal experience building and running at least one complete budgeting and financial planning cycle.

• Strategic and analytical judgment: Ability to interpret complex financial and operational data, understand unit economics, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.

• Executive and investor communication: Confidence presenting financial insights and strategic recommendations to a Board of Directors, institutional investors, and senior leadership.

• People leadership: A strong track record of developing, mentoring, and building high-performing finance teams.

• Entrepreneurial mindset: Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments characterized by rapid change, ambiguity, and evolving business priorities.

• Hands-on ownership: Willingness to build and improve processes from end to end rather than simply maintain existing systems. The role requires a player-coach who can lead the function while remaining directly involved in execution.

• Cross-functional collaboration: Ability to work effectively with Finance, Data, Capital Markets, Financial Operations, Risk, and other stakeholders to align financial planning with business performance.

• Remote work within the United States.

• Preference for candidates based in the New York City area.

• Opportunity to lead the strategic finance function at a rapidly growing global fintech.

• Direct partnership with the President and CFO on financial strategy, Board reporting, and investor engagement.

• Exposure to global payments, treasury, credit, crypto, and stablecoin financial infrastructure.

• Opportunity to shape AI-powered finance workflows and modernize financial planning, reporting, and analytics systems.