Senior Director, Strategic Finance
Stash
New York
IT Governance
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Want to help everyday Americans invest and build wealth? Financial inequality is increasing, and too many people are getting left behind. At Stash, we’re passionate about democratizing wealth creation through education, advice, and products that help customers achieve greater financial freedom. We also believe in working smarter—leveraging AI and emerging technologies to move faster, operate more efficiently, and focus our time on solving meaningful problems for our customers.
We are looking for an exceptional Senior Director of Strategic Finance to help shape Stash's financial strategy and drive operational excellence as we execute on our mission. Reporting directly to the CFO, this leader will own the company's Financial Planning & Analysis function while partnering closely with leadership to drive strategic decision-making, resource allocation, and long-term value creation.
This role combines best-in-class FP&A leadership with selective Corporate Development responsibilities, making it ideal for a strategic finance leader who enjoys both operational rigor and evaluating transformational growth opportunities. You will lead an established team and serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO, translating complex financial and operational data into actionable business insights.
If you're passionate about building high-performing finance organizations, influencing executive decisions, and helping scale a mission-driven company, we'd love to hear from you.
What you'll do:
- Lead Stash's Financial Planning & Analysis function, including annual planning, long-range planning, forecasting, management reporting, and performance management.
- Partner directly with the CFO to develop financial strategy and support key business initiatives across the company.
- Lead an established Strategic Finance team, developing talent while building scalable FP&A processes, reporting, and financial infrastructure.
- Own company-wide budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities, operating plans, and financial outcomes.
- Develop and monitor key financial and operational performance indicators, delivering actionable insights that improve decision-making across the organization.
- Partner with business leaders to evaluate investments, optimize resource allocation, and identify opportunities to improve operating performance and efficiency.
- Prepare materials and analyses for the Board of Directors, executive leadership, and investors, including business reviews, financial updates, and strategic recommendations.
- Lead complex financial modeling, scenario planning, and sensitivity analyses to support critical strategic decisions.
- Partner with Accounting and Data Science to continuously improve financial reporting, planning systems, and data quality.
- Support Corporate Development initiatives, including evaluating strategic partnerships, investments, acquisitions, and other growth opportunities through financial analysis, valuation, and due diligence.
- Help shape Stash's long-term financial strategy, capital allocation framework, and overall operating cadence.
What we're looking for:
- 12+ years of progressive experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, corporate development, or corporate finance.
- Experience leading high-performing FP&A organizations, preferably within a high-growth technology or fintech company.
- Proven ability to partner with executive leadership and influence strategic decisions through data-driven insights.
- Strong financial modeling, forecasting, valuation, and business analysis capabilities.
- Deep understanding of financial statements, accounting principles, budgeting, forecasting, and operating metrics.
- Strong familiarity with subscription business metrics (ARR, CAC payback, LTV:CAC, cohort retention, unit economic analysis) and experience partnering with Product and Growth teams to translate that analysis into pricing, packaging, and retention strategy.
- Experience evaluating strategic investments, M&A, or other corporate development opportunities is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success building and leading teams while developing future finance leaders.
- Highly analytical with exceptional attention to detail and a bias toward action.
- Excellent communication and executive presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex analyses into clear recommendations.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with planning systems and BI tools is preferred. Familiarity with SQL or large-scale data analysis is a plus, with ability to independently pull and structure data.
- A track record of using AI tools, both general-purpose (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar) and/or embedded in ERP/FP&A platforms, to redesign finance processes, not just speed up existing ones, with a bias toward automating manual reporting and freeing the team for higher-value analysis.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving priorities.
Gold Stars:
- Fintech and/or consumer subscription experience with deep understanding of regulated consumer financial products.
- Proven leadership of enterprise FP&A, strategic finance, and long-range planning in high-growth, data-driven organizations.
- Expertise in financial modeling, scenario planning, KPI development, and executive dashboards using tools such as NetSuite, Looker, Tableau, or similar BI and planning platforms.
- Direct experience supporting investor relations or earnings-related deliverables (eg, earnings materials, guidance-setting, analyst Q&A prep, etc.) and ideally with exposure to subsidiary or segment-level reporting into a public parent company's consolidated results.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We proudly celebrate the unique qualities that make you you, 365 days a year, and not just because it’s the right thing to do or good for business. We embed the principles and practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into all that we do to prioritize people, a Stash core value, and to ensure Stashers of all backgrounds and experiences can be their authentic selves.
We are also proud to be the first and only venture-backed fintech to join the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™, and as an Equal Opportunity Employer, Stash is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds.
If you require any reasonable accommodations to make your application process more accessible, please reach out to recruiting@Stash.com.
Helping You Invest in Yourself
- Comprehensive total rewards package, comprising compensation (salary and equity) and health care benefits
- Complimentary subscription to Stash+ account
- Flexible work policy – We offer a flexible work environment that blends working from home with in-person collaboration at our NYC office to support productivity and team culture.
- Flexible PTO
- Annual learning and development reimbursement benefit
- Work-from-home equipment stipends; home internet subsidy
- Paid Parental Leave (offerings for birth giving and non-birth giving parents) Primary & Secondary
- Enhanced health and wellness benefits through One Medical, Gympass, and Maven Health
External Recognition for Stash
- Benzinga’s 2023 Best Brokerage for Beginners and Best Robo-Advisor Awards
- Qorus-Accenture’s 2023 Banking Innovation Awards
- USA Today and Statista’s 2023 Top 500 Best Financial Advisory Firms
- Comparably's Best Company Awards: Best Places to Work, Best Company Outlook, and Best Engineering Team for Diversity, Women, Culture, and more! (2023)
- Fintech Breakthrough Award: Best Personal Finance App (2023)
- BuiltIn’s Best Places to Work (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
- Forbes Fintech 50 (2021, 2020, 2019)
- Best Digital Bank, Finovate Awards (2020)
- Tearsheet Challenge Awards, Best Banking Card Product - Stock-Back® Card, 2020
- LendIt Fintech Innovator of the Year (2020, 2019)
Salary Range: $190,000 - $220,000
The base salary range represents the reasonably anticipated low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience and competencies, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data for companies of our size and industry.
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