Finance and Strategy Manager San Francisco

Company: Monzo
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 6, 2024

Job Description:

We're on a mission to make money work for everyone.We're waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award-winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!We're not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo.About us:Monzo Group is a leading financial technology company, with over 9 million customers in the UK, committed to providing modern banking solutions. In the last few years, we've built a banking app that our customers love - with extremely high daily engagement, an industry-leading net promoter score, and award-winning customer support. We've raised over $1 billion from Capital G, Google's growth fund, Ribbit Capital, TenCent, YCombinator, Stripe, Coatue, Eric Schmidt, Mike Moritz, and others - most recently at a $5 billion valuation.We're just getting started in the US. We're an agile full stack team operating like an early-stage startup but with the financial, operational, and engineering platform muscle of a larger company. We're focused on building an amazing US product, shipping and iterating quickly, and deepening our product market fit. We're looking for highly driven, enterprising people to help us achieve our mission to make money work for everyone.The role:We're looking for an experienced Finance & Strategy Manager to join our growing US team. This key role will help us grow the business, working closely with the US CEO to build and drive our Strategy with commercial outcomes in mind. The Finance & Strategy Manager will report to the US CEO and collaborate daily with senior leadership in both the US and in the UK.

• Taking overall responsibility for the financials of the US business including P&L and cash management.
• Supporting with strategic investment decisions and commercial negotiations.
• Preparing management information, insights & reporting to US CEO, highlighting emerging issues & potential future challenges.
• Supporting the US CEO with ad-hoc strategy projects such as M&A, peer benchmarking, researching potential product opportunities.
• Working independently and taking the initiative to develop relationships and work across the business to help drive understanding of US financials.
• Making sure financials are managed in line with business plans for both short and long term.
• Taking full ownership of annual budget, forecasts and multi-year plan including modelling using business drivers.
• Working alongside the UK team to ensure accurate financials are recorded at each month end including the accounting for new products or contracts.
• Managing capital calculations and return on equity.We'd love to hear from you if you---
  • Have experience working as a Finance Manager in a startup, a smaller fast-growing business unit within a larger company, or building a local hub for an overseas company. FinTech experience is a bonus!
  • Have banking/finance experience; an accountancy qualification is a nice to have.
  • Possess great analytical & problem-solving skills; the ability to identify trends, issues and recommend actions by presenting data in a meaningful way.
  • Have strong financial modelling experience and be an advanced user of Excel or Google Sheets. A big plus if you're competent at SQL/Looker too.
  • Have experience building strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels using strong interpersonal & influencing skills to engage across various internal functions to develop, get buy-in and deliver outcomes.
  • Have strong attention to detail and organisational skills, able to support with developing new processes and streamlining existing processes to create efficiencies.The application journey involves 4 main stages:
    • Recruiter Call (30mins)
    • Interview Loop: 3 x Interviews (currently being conducted via Google Meet) with members of our US and UK teams. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions.We'll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don't miss out.This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!What's in it for youWe offer a competitive salary and a pretty great benefits package (if we do say so ourselves!)$140,000 - $168,000 + EquityLearning budget of $1,500 a year for books, training courses and conferencesGenerous 401k with 4% employer matchEqual opportunities for everyoneDiversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we're making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we're embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone.We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage.Apply for this job* indicates a required fieldFirst Name *Last Name *Email *Phone *Resume/CV *Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtfA US Person is defined as someone who:
      • was born in the United States (US)
      • has at least 1 parent who was born in the US
      • is a naturalised citizen of the US
      • is a green card holder
      • is a US tax residentWe are unfortunately unable to sponsor work authorization at this time.Which US State do you live in? *If you'd like to, please spell out your name how it's pronounced so we know how to say it.If you'd like to, please share your preferred pronouns (eg. they/them/theirs, she/her/hers).Voluntary Self-IdentificationFor government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.As set forth in Monzo's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
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