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Updater

VP, Strategic Finance – Business Operations

Updater

. Own annual planning, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, and scenario analysis .

Posted 11/11/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $260,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in strategic finance, financial modeling, and performance management, with a strong focus on capital allocation and business-case development. Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and build scalable systems to support high-growth environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Financial ModelingCapital AllocationKPI Framework DevelopmentScenario AnalysisExecutive Communication

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Hard Skills
Financial ModelingForecastingScenario AnalysisUnit EconomicsInvestment ReturnsBusiness-Case DevelopmentData AnalysisPerformance ManagementAnalytical CapabilityOrganizational Scale Judgment
Soft Skills
Executive PresenceWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationIntellectual CuriosityPlayer-Coach Mentality
Tools & Technologies
ExcelGoogle SheetsBusiness Intelligence ToolsAnalytical ToolingAI Tools
Industry Keywords
Strategic FinanceFP&ABusiness OperationsInvestment BankingPrivate EquityHigh-Growth TechnologyCommerceMarketplacePlatform Business

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own annual planning, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, and scenario analysis
  • Build and maintain driver-based financial models connecting operations, unit economics, strategic priorities, resource allocation, and long-term financial outcomes
  • Partner with the CFO and executive team on capital allocation
  • Develop business cases for investments, products, partnerships, pricing changes, commercial structures, and strategic initiatives
  • Translate performance into executive and Board-level narratives
  • Architect KPI and OKR measurement frameworks
  • Establish a company-wide source of truth for key metrics with Data leadership
  • Build and maintain executive dashboards
  • Run monthly business reviews, quarterly planning, forecast reviews, and performance deep dives
  • Turn variance analysis into accountable corrective action
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives across GTM, Product, Operations, Data, and Finance
  • Develop frameworks for growth opportunities, pricing, partner economics, unit economics, productivity, and resource allocation
  • Partner with the CFO and CRO on commercial planning, incentive design, capacity allocation, compensation structures, and major customer and partner decisions
  • Fix organizational complexity, unclear ownership, poor data, and broken processes
  • Build scalable systems, processes, tooling, ownership, and metrics
  • Design infrastructure to scale the company to $1B+ revenue while remaining lean, fast, and capital-efficient
  • Use automation, AI, existing tools, and better processes before adding systems or headcount
  • Develop existing team members and selectively add talent

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of exceptional performance across strategic finance, finance & strategy, FP&A, business operations, investment banking, private equity, consulting, or similarly rigorous analytical and operating environments
  • Clear trajectory of increasing responsibility
  • Ideally, rigorous early-career analytical training and meaningful operating experience within a high-growth technology, commerce, payments, marketplace, or platform business
  • Experience operating through meaningful scale, ideally with exposure to a company growing through the hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue
  • Exceptional financial modeling and analytical capability
  • Deep understanding of forecasting, scenario analysis, unit economics, pricing, capital allocation, investment returns, and business-case development
  • Strong commercial instincts
  • Demonstrated ability to build KPI frameworks, operating cadences, and performance-management systems
  • Judgment around organizational scale
  • Player-coach mentality
  • Strong executive presence and exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • High intellectual curiosity, low ego, and ability to go several layers deeper than the initial question
  • Advanced Excel / Sheets capability and strong comfort with BI and analytical tooling; SQL helpful but not required
  • Fluency with modern AI tools and agents, with demonstrated ability to use technology to increase personal and team leverage

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Flexible PTO
  • 13 paid company holidays annually
  • Updater Stock Options
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Wellbeing Subsidy
  • One Medical membership
  • Virtual on-demand healthcare through Teladoc and Talkspace
  • Flexible spending account (FSA)
  • Health savings account (HSA)
  • Supplemental Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Supplemental Life Insurance
  • Paid Parental Leave