Strategic Finance Lead, R&D

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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TRM Labs

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

₿ Crypto

📋 Compliance

🤝 B2B

Crypto • Compliance • B2B

TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that provides transaction-monitoring, forensics, and compliance solutions for businesses and public-sector organizations dealing with cryptocurrencies. Their platform and products (examples: Compliance360, Investigation360, Seizure360, Supervision360, BlockInt API, MCP, wallet screening, Know-Your-Asset) help banks, crypto firms, regulators, law enforcement, and tax authorities detect, investigate, and block illicit crypto activity, support seizures, and meet AML/CTF and supervision requirements. TRM also offers training and certification (TRM Academy) and professional services such as incident response and capacity development.

📋 Description

• Build an AI-assisted, driver-based economic model connecting usage and billing data across hundreds of SKUs to forecasts and investment decisions • Identify infrastructure-spend optimization opportunities and partner with Engineering to reduce R&D costs without slowing product velocity • Define TRM's AI spend strategy with the Head of AI and track spend against ROI by tool and workload • Own planning, forecasting, and the R&D headcount capacity model, with automated workflows to flag risks • Lead infrastructure and R&D investment cases from business case through decision and measurement • Create executive and board narratives explaining R&D performance, changes, causes, and recommended decisions • Rebuild R&D finance using AI, automation, and Pigment • Partner with the CTO and R&D leadership; report to the Head of Strategic Finance and FP&A • Deliver an initial AI-assisted GCP cloud forecast within 30 days, an AI spend strategy within 60 days, and an integrated R&D capacity model within 90 days • Participate in regular CTO/R&D working sessions, monthly cost and forecast reviews, quarterly headcount-capacity planning, and annual Pigment planning cycles

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years across strategic finance, FP&A, business operations, or a related role • Experience owning consequential work end to end, from framing ambiguous questions through recommendations and action • Strong data-informed modeling skills, including driver-based forecasts, investment cases, and capacity models built from incomplete or complex data • Hands-on experience analyzing cloud, compute, AI, or other usage-based technology costs • Experience partnering with Engineering, Product, Data, AI, or Infrastructure leaders • Judgment and communication skills to become a trusted partner to senior technical leaders • Applied AI fluency, including using AI to improve modeling, research, or recurring workflows and checking output reliability • Curiosity to learn technical systems quickly and translate AI products and modern infrastructure into financial insight • Comfort with ambiguity, rapid change, high ownership, collaboration, and creative problem-solving

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits, wellness programs, and time away from work, varying by country and local employment requirements • Distributed-first/remote work environment • Substantial ownership from day one • Direct exposure to the CTO and executive team • Opportunity to shape R&D finance operations • Potential opportunity to build a team as the mandate grows