Strategic Finance Lead (revenue)

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

This role is a Strategic Finance Lead focused on revenue growth for a fintech company. It involves partnering with various teams, building financial models, forecasting, analyzing performance, and designing dashboards. While it collaborates with an ML modeling team and has a curiosity for AI, the core responsibilities are financial strategy and analysis, not direct AI/ML development.

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

  • Excel
  • SQL
  • Looker
  • Data visualization tools

Nice to have

  • Python

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years experience in fast-paced analytical roles (strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, data science, analytics, etc.)
  • Exceptional analytical skills and the ability to synthesize complex financial information into clear, concise reports
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the capability to navigate cross-functional collaborations effectively and be front and center with company executives
  • Curiosity to build things (processes, models, etc.) with/for/around AI