Senior Director, Strategic Finance

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $185k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Greenlight

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

💳 Fintech

📚 Education

👥 B2C

💰 $260M Series D on 2021-04

Fintech • Education • B2C

Greenlight is a financial technology company dedicated to providing financial literacy tools and experiences for families, particularly focusing on children and teens. It offers a debit card specifically designed for kids, supported by an app that allows parents to monitor spending, automate allowances, and set savings goals. Greenlight facilitates a comprehensive learning experience by incorporating chores management, investing opportunities, and a financial education game that teaches real-world money skills. It also includes safety features such as location sharing and driving alerts to keep families connected and secure. Through partnerships with banks, the app provides various customizable plans that encourage smart financial habits from an early age.

📋 Description

• Build, lead, and develop Greenlight’s strategic finance team, setting priorities, coaching managers and analysts, and scaling the function as the company grows. • Serve as the primary strategic finance partner to the CFO and executive leadership team, shaping company-wide strategy, investment decisions, and key trade-offs. • Own the end-to-end financial model and company-wide planning cycle — long-range planning, annual budgeting, and quarterly forecasting — across all departments. • Direct detailed custom financial modeling, scenario analysis, and market insights for the product, engineering, marketing, and commercial sales teams on prospective products and initiatives. • Own variance analysis of actual results vs. budget/forecast, and partner with business leaders to drive insightful, actionable decision support at the executive level. • Lead the preparation and delivery of board-level reporting and strategic materials. • Partner with the Accounting team on month-end and quarter-end close processes and audit support, ensuring alignment between FP&A and accounting. • Lead analysis and diligence for potential strategic acquisitions, partnerships, or investment opportunities, and present recommendations to executive leadership. • Represent the finance function in cross-departmental strategic planning, OKR setting, and company-wide operating rhythms.

🎯 Requirements

• 8–10+ years of progressive experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, or venture capital, including experience managing and developing people (FinTech or consumer subscription and/or startup experience strongly preferred). • Demonstrated track record leading company-wide planning processes (budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning) at a venture-backed or high-growth company. • Strong leadership and executive communication skills. • Advanced Excel / Google Sheets modeling and technical skills; experience with FP&A software (e.g., Adaptive, Anaplan, Pigment, AI native tools) a plus. • Excellent analytical skills and strategic mindset. • Proven ability to influence and drive alignment across functions and levels, including at the executive and board level. • Strong accounting and systems knowledge. • Strong data visualization skills and an ability to synthesize complicated analyses in simple, actionable ways for senior stakeholders. • Enthusiasm to learn and evolve your own skillset, and to grow the skillset of your team, over time. • Proven people leader with experience building, managing, and developing high-performing finance teams. • Exceptional executive presence — comfortable presenting to and influencing the CFO, executive team, investors and board, and unafraid to speak up on critical issues. • Strategic mindset with the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into structured financial frameworks and clear recommendations. • Strong ownership mentality; detail-oriented and committed to producing work at a high standard while delegating effectively. • Creative mindset for building bespoke financial models for a diverse set of cross-functional needs. • Data-driven approach to analyzing problems and supporting decisions. • Adaptability and flexibility, comfortable operating in a startup environment that requires the ability to pivot when necessary.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and HSA match • Paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits • Traditional 401k with company match • Unlimited PTO • Paid company holidays and pop-up bonus holidays • Professional development stipends • Mental health resources • 1:1 financial planners • Fertility healthcare • 100% paid parental and caregiving leave, plus cleaning service and meals during your leave • Flexible WFH, both remote and in-office opportunities • Fully stocked kitchen, catered lunches, and occasional in-office happy hours • Employee resource groups