Strategic Finance Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of driver-based financial models for designated business sectors.

• Collaborate closely with GTM, Product, and potentially Payments Strategy, Risk, and Operations teams to challenge assumptions, delineate trade-offs, and provide decision-making advice.

• Project subscriber metrics, TPV, and revenue by product line and payment method.

• Analyze metric fluctuations, clarify their origins, determine if changes are beneficial or problematic, and suggest appropriate actions.

• Link function-level models to the overall company budget and operational plan.

• Develop and sustain real-time SQL data pipelines from Databricks or a comparable data warehouse into models.

• Assist in modernizing planning infrastructure through tools, automation, or architecture improvements.

• Simplify intricate analyses into clear narratives for executive, board, and investor presentations.

• Collaborate with the Senior Financial Analyst to ensure cohesive forecasting, budgeting, and reporting.

• Help define the role of finance in relation to the business as it evolves.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, or business analytics, preferably within fintech, SaaS, or similar recurring-revenue enterprises.

• Understanding of payments or transaction economics, including take rate, transaction mix across rails, cost per transaction, and volume-to-revenue conversion.

• Practical knowledge of SaaS metrics such as ARR, MRR, churn, CAC, payback, and LTV.

• Proficient in SQL with experience working with a data warehouse like Databricks, integrated with Excel for live-refresh workflows.

• Advanced skills in Excel and driver-based modeling.

• Ability to differentiate between causation and correlation and assess experiments effectively.

• Outstanding communication skills for engaging technical, non-technical, and business leader audiences.

• Strong partnering instincts and judgment to prioritize tasks and clearly decline requests when necessary.

• Proficient in utilizing AI tools to automate analytical workflows.

• Experience in selecting or implementing FP&A planning tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Commitment to an inclusive workplace.

• Accommodation provided throughout the recruitment process in line with applicable accessibility legislation.