Strategic Finance Manager

VGS is seeking a Strategic Finance Manager to help shape the financial and corporate strategy of a rapidly growing payments infrastructure company.

This is a high-impact role at the intersection of strategic finance, FP&A, corporate development, and capital markets. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will work closely with the CEO and executive team on some of the company’s most consequential decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Own and continuously improve the company’s integrated three-statement financial model.
• Translate operational drivers into reliable financial forecasts.
• Build rapid scenario analyses for growth investments, pricing decisions, and strategic alternatives.
• Evaluate the impact of decisions on revenue, profitability, cash flow, and company value.
• Develop detailed near-term forecasts and long-range strategic plans.

Strategic Transactions and Corporate Development:

• Support the evaluation of acquisitions, partnerships, and other inorganic growth opportunities.
• Build valuation, returns, synergy, accretion/dilution, and financing analyses.
• Support transaction processes from initial screening through diligence, structuring, and integration planning.

Capital Structure and Shareholder Analysis:

• Maintain a detailed understanding of the company’s capitalization and ownership structure.
• Model equity financings, debt alternatives, secondary transactions, and other capital-structure scenarios.

Financial Planning and Performance Management:

• Lead the annual planning process, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning.
• Partner with functional leaders on headcount, operating expenses, investment priorities, and performance targets.

Executive, Board, and Investor Support:

• Prepare decision-ready materials for executive leadership, the board, investors, and other external stakeholders.
• Turn complex financial analysis into concise narratives, recommendations, and clear choices.

Finance Infrastructure:

• Improve the speed, reliability, and transparency of the company’s forecasting and decision-support processes.
• Establish clear assumptions, controls, and documentation around key models.

Requirements:

• 4–7+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, strategic finance, corporate development, or a similarly rigorous analytical environment.
• Exceptional financial modeling skills, including integrated three-statement models, transaction analysis, valuation, and multi-scenario forecasting.
• Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and how operating decisions flow through the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with high-growth B2B software, fintech, payments, or other recurring or usage-based business models.
• Experience evaluating acquisitions, financing alternatives, or strategic transactions.
• Familiarity with cap tables, equity financings, transaction waterfalls, and shareholder-return analysis.

What Success Looks Like in the First Year:

• The company has a trusted, flexible financial model that leadership can use to evaluate decisions quickly.
• Strategic investments, acquisitions, and financing alternatives are supported by rigorous, decision-ready analysis.
• Leadership has a clear view of the company’s capital needs, liquidity, dilution, and shareholder outcomes across scenarios.

Benefits:

• Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
• Competitive health benefits
• VGS stock options
• 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees)
• Life & disability insurance
• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees)
• Global parental leave program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Home Internet reimbursement
• New hire home office set-up allowance
• Professional learning reimbursement