Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

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August 9

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Alpaca

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API • Fintech • Crypto

Alpaca is a fintech company that provides a comprehensive brokerage and trading platform through a suite of APIs. These APIs enable developers and businesses to integrate algorithmic trading, app development, and embedded investing into their services. Alpaca offers services like trading in US stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency with options for local currency transactions. The company is recognized for its cyber security practices and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. Alpaca is ideal for fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services looking to build sophisticated trading applications and platforms with minimal friction through their well-documented Broker API.

201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

📋 Description

• Our finance team at Alpaca is seeking an FP&A Manager to lead financial planning, analysis, and reporting for our fast-growing and innovative API-driven trading brokerage. • In this role, you'll manage budgeting, forecasting, and performance insights to drive strategic decisions, collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced fintech environment. • Reporting to the Finance Director, you'll support a range of key processes including financial forecasting and budgeting, monthly/quarterly closes, data analysis and growth modeling, and investor communications. • Maintain complex forecasting models and oversee the quarterly/annual budgeting process, incorporating key metrics from API integrations, trading activities, and various other economic indicators. • Build and update financial models to support scenario planning, initiative assessments, cash flow forecasting, and investment evaluations to support a range of forecasting and strategic planning for the company. • Assist with and ultimately lead the monthly/quarterly financial closing processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness and delivering key insights to management. • Prepare monthly/quarterly reports for internal management updates, team presentations, and external stakeholders including investor communications, quarterly board meetings, marketing or fundraising materials, etc. • Perform variance analysis on financials and key business metrics, using internal models and data dashboards to track and analyze performance. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on budgeting, resource allocation, and hiring processes. • Handle ad-hoc requests, projects, and special analyses, such as product profitability assessments or risk evaluations.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. • 5+ years in finance, with experience in financial modeling, forecasting/budgeting, and data analysis ideally in the fintech or brokerage space. • Advanced skills in Excel, G-Suite, SQL, Python, or similar systems/applications. • Very strong analytical abilities for variance analysis, scenario modeling, and metric tracking in a dynamic business. • Excellent communication for reports, presentations, and cross-team collaboration. • Exceptional problem-solving with a curious and strategic mindset and high attention to detail. • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth remote setting and adapt to evolving industry regulations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options • Health Benefits • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card