Description
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We're dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products.
Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use.
Plaid's Strategic Finance team plays a critical role in shaping our long-term business strategy and execution. The Strategic Finance team helps provide analytical rigor and data-driven insights to drive success across the entire organization.
Responsibilities:
- Support critical FP&A processes, including month-end reporting, recurring forecasts, and preparation of financial reporting for senior leadership and Board presentations.
- Act as a strategic partner to senior leaders by providing actionable financial insights, solving key business challenges, and evaluating investments that encourage company growth.
- Develop systems, processes, and tools that enable accurate, scalable, and timely financial reporting and forecasting.
- Work cross-functionally with marketing leadership on optimizing capital allocation across marketing funnels.
- Partner with Revenue Operations, Sales Leadership, and Accounting on sales capacity planning and commissions forecasting.
- Maintain and optimizing key GTM KPIs that are used for internal and external reporting.
- Prepare materials to internal and external stakeholders on company performance, including quarterly Board materials.
- Help recruit a world-class Strategic Finance team at Plaid.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of work experience including financial planning & analysis, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, strategic finance, or management consulting.
- Strong analytical, financial modeling, problem-solving and communication skills.
- Proactive self-starter with intellectual curiosity, a can-do attitude, and the ability to thrive in a high-autonomy environment.
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners and distill complex issues into structured frameworks and action plans.
- Solid understanding of technical accounting principles.
- A penchant for impact and ownership.