Strategic Finance Lead (revenue)

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · Canada, United States · Remote · Strategic Finance

This role supports the growth of Affirm's topline revenue streams by partnering with cross-functional leaders, building financial models, collaborating with the ML modeling team, establishing performance metrics, and designing automated dashboards. The ideal candidate has strong analytical and interpersonal skills, with curiosity around AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with cross functional leaders (i.e. Product, Growth Analytics, Credit, Revenue and, Merchant Pricing) to drive business outcomes through strategic and analytic support
  2. Build and maintain financial models to forecast, reconcile, and describe variances for our gamut of metrics
  3. Collaborate with our ML modeling team to marry your modeling with aggregated ML forecasts
  4. Establish top-line performance metrics and targets, analyze and report realized financial performance to Executives and other company leaders, and drive accountability for results
  5. Design and deliver scalable automated user and financial dashboards and analytics for cross departmental and executive consumption

Skills

Required

  • Exceptional analytical skills
  • Synthesize complex financial information into clear, concise reports
  • High attention to detail
  • Ability to see the big picture and evaluate analyses with strategic business context
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Navigate cross-functional collaborations effectively
  • Present to all levels of the organization
  • Excel proficiency
  • SQL
  • Looker

Nice to have

  • Python knowledge
  • Building contextual models / files

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years experience in fast-paced analytical roles (strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, data science, analytics, etc.)
  • Curiosity to build things (processes, models, etc.) with/for/around AI