Head of Strategic Finance

We are looking for a Head of Strategic Finance to lead Jeeves' planning function. This role will own key strategic financial initiatives, corporate-level forecasting and budgeting, and be a trusted partner to the leadership team. Reporting to the President & CFO, this person will own board and investor materials together with the President & CFO, and will partner closely with the Head of GTM - Strategic Finance.
Location: This is a remote US-based role with preference for candidates in the New York City area.

Job Responsibilities:

- Drive Strategic Finance function, and support entire leadership team with strategic recommendations supported by quantitative analysis with qualitative takeaways

- Manage key financial processes, including annual budgeting, forecasting, monthly performance analysis, headcount planning, and product forecasting. Design and run bottoms-up annual budgeting and headcount planning across the company

- Own the consolidated operating model and long-range plan

- Deeply understand and evangelize unit economics across all products and geos, including FIAT and crypto - we are currency-, rail-, and chain-agnostic at Jeeves

- Synthesize company and financial performance in monthly performance package for Jeeves Leadership team and Board of Directors

- Set up and run a budget-vs-actuals (BvA) cadence with the leadership team

- Build segment reporting that gives leadership a clear view of performance across the business

- Analyze financial and operational results to better understand the company’s overall financial health & performance

- Key partner of Data team, and transform Jeeves into becoming data-driven organization, and provide insights to leadership

- Own high-impact board, investor materials in partnership with the President & CFO

- Manage Strategic Finance’s internal systems and tooling roadmap for the infrastructure that both Strategic Finance and the broader finance org run on

- Partner directly with Finance, Capital Markets, Financial Operations, and Risk to bring credit book into the plan (facility utilization, losses, etc.) to ensure capital efficiency in scaling a global org so that growth, liquidity, and returns are planned as a single system

Requirements:

- Ideal background: 2–4 years in banking or credit investing, followed by 4–8 years in operating roles at fast-paced, high-velocity global fintechs. Operating experience is essential

- Background in a balance-sheet business (lending, cards, or payments with facilities). Pure SaaS Strategic Finance experience is not a fit for this role

- AI-Native: you have already built out agentic automation and workflows with Claude (or other models / harness) to streamline financial analysis, modeling, reporting, and other finance workflows

- Fluent in crypto/stables, or able to get there fast; crypto-adjacent finance experience is a plus

- Have personally built and run at least one full budget and planning cycle

- Experience and strong track record of developing and mentoring a team of professionals into a high-performance team

- Must thrive in entrepreneurial fast paced, rapid change, hyper-growth environments; agile and able to pivot quickly with the changing environment

- Comfortable in front of a board of directors or institutional investors

- Want to build, not maintain; can own processes from end-to-end. We require player-coaches at Jeeves.

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