Strategic Finance Lead modeling GTM and product growth for Plooto’s SMB payments fintech. Building live forecasting infrastructure and advising executive, board, and investor decisions.
Responsibilities
Own driver-based financial models for supported business areas
Embed with GTM, Product, and potentially Payments Strategy, Risk, and Operations teams to challenge assumptions, frame tradeoffs, and advise decisions
Forecast subscriber metrics, TPV, and revenue by product line and payment rail
Investigate metric movements, explain their causes, assess whether changes are favorable or concerning, and recommend actions
Connect function-level models to the central company budget and operating plan
Build and maintain live SQL data pipelines from Databricks or a similar warehouse into models
Help modernize planning infrastructure through tooling, automation, or architecture
Distill complex analysis into clear stories for executive, board, and investor audiences
Partner with the Senior Financial Analyst to maintain coherent forecasting, budgeting, and reporting
Help define how finance partners with the business as the function grows
Requirements
7+ years in strategic finance, FP&A, or business analytics, ideally in fintech, SaaS, or another recurring-revenue business
Knowledge 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 including ARR, MRR, churn, CAC, payback, and LTV
Hands-on SQL against a warehouse such as Databricks, wired into Excel for live-refresh workflows
Advanced Excel and driver-based modeling
Ability to reason about causation versus correlation and evaluate experiments
Exceptional communication skills for technical, non-technical, and business-leader audiences
Partnering instinct and judgment to prioritize work and clearly decline requests when necessary
Ability to use AI tools to automate analytical workflows
Experience helping select or implement FP&A planning tooling
Benefits
Inclusive workplace commitment
Accommodation throughout the recruitment process in accordance with applicable accessibility legislation
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