Strategic Finance Manager

Why join us

Brex is the AI-powered spend platform. We help companies spend with confidence with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments, plus intuitive software for travel and expenses. Tens of thousands of companies from startups to enterprises — including Door Dash, Flexport, and Compass — use Brex to proactively control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency on a global scale.

Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

The Finance team is a strategic engine  lead planning, forecasting, investor relations, and corporate development — partnering across the business to drive clarity and unlock opportunity. We partner across teams at Brex to ensure our business is building and planning with the same dream big goals throughout our entire organization. We’re not here to report on outcomes; we shape them. If you want to influence company direction and think long-term about value creation, this is where your ownership starts.

This role will be based in our San Francisco office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a minimum of two coordinated days in the office per week, Wednesday and Thursday. Starting February 2, 2026, we will require three days per week in the office - Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

We are building out the GTM Finance team and looking for a Finance Manager to own the financial view of Brex's existing business, the largest and most strategically important part of our revenue engine. This role is the dedicated Finance business partner for our Client Sales teams, Customer Success, Account Management, Relationship Management, and Banking teams, and owns the full financial picture of a customer's lifetime value.

This is a high-ownership, high-visibility seat at the center of Brex's revenue story. You will partner directly with post-sales leadership to set expansion targets and build the models that drive retention and growth decisions. You will support these leaders by developing and implementing data-driven and high-impact initiatives aimed at driving growth, improving efficiency, and increasing profitability, while serving as a connective tissue within the business.

You will bring both the financial and commercial point of view, and need to embrace challenges and structure complex problems. This role will involve high exposure to Executive Leadership, as you will regularly deliver analysis and recommendations directly to the Leadership team and participate in the narrative and analysis for the Board of Directors and other investors.

• Own the existing business revenue forecast by segment and cohort; track actuals against plan, surface variance drivers early, and maintain a forward-looking view of NRR, GMV , and churn; build and maintain the LTV:
  
  CAC and payback period model, connecting what we spend to acquire a customer to what that customer is worth over their lifetime, including identifying and implementing strategies to improve CAC and CAC Paybacks
• Lead financial planning for post-sales teams, including target setting, capacity modeling, book coverage analysis, and budget management
• Develop cohort-level expansion and churn analysis; understand what drives revenue performance post-activation and feed findings back into the forward plan
• Build and own renewal economics models: evaluate pricing strategies for existing cohorts and quantify the revenue impact of renewal optimization decisions
• Prepare and deliver management presentations for Leadership to analyze results and present forecasts; build narratives that describe business strategy and performance, assess…