Vice President, Finance, Strategy, and Analytics

Company Description

Pay Near Me  develops technology to facilitate the end-to-end customer payment experience, making it easy for businesses to accept, disburse and manage payments. Our modern and reliable platform lowers the total cost of payments by increasing acceptance rates, driving self-service and simplifying exceptions. We future-proof our clients’ payments roadmap by including all payment types and channels through a single contract and integration.

With Pay Near Me , businesses can focus on acquiring new customers while we make accepting payments a modern and seamless experience.

Pay Near Me  has over 240 employees and is processing over $40B in payments annually. We are a fully-funded private company headquartered in Silicon Valley with our employees distributed across the U.S.

This is an opportunity to join a high-growth, private, venture-backed company during its critical growth phase. Come help us solve our clients’ biggest payment problems.

We are seeking a dynamic, quantitative and experienced leader for our Finance, Strategy, and Analytics team. In this role you will be responsible for leading our annual strategic and financial planning and tracking performance and reporting out to the company and the board. You will drive our Pricing strategy and the deal desk review and approval for the sales team. You support all Strategic Finance requirements for first-of-kind deal and partnership reviews, business initiative modeling and Corporate Development deal reviews.

You will lead the development and support of company-wide KPI and performance analytics. This role also requires you and your team to lead multiple cross-functional initiatives and drive them successfully through to implementation. You will lead a growing FP&A team and will report to the CFO/COO. The ideal candidate will have B2B SaaS software experience and/or payments industry experience.

Lead Company planning and performance management

• Lead annual and multi-year financial and strategic planning processes, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic goals
• Partner with business leaders on business case development and approval for major company initiatives
• Work with all levels of the company to monitor performance against KPIs, budgets and forecasts, identifying variances and course-corrective actions.
• Build and oversee the creation of management dashboards and KPIs to track business performance
• Support the CFO/COO with board presentations, investor relations analysis, and capital planning

Lead Strategic Finance:
Pricing, Strategy and Deal Review

• Run deal desk pricing review and approval for current markets and products
• Design and implement pricing strategies that maximize revenue and profitability while aligning with market trends and customer needs
• Drive the modeling and decision-making process for first-of-kind deals, strategic partnerships, corporate development deals, and unique new company initiatives
• Analyze competitive positioning, existing and addressable markets, cost structures, and market dynamics to inform company strategy, initiative prioritization and resource allocation
• Collaborate with the Company Leadership Team to identify, prioritize, and execute high-impact strategic initiatives that align with the company’s vision and growth objectives

Develop and Enhance Analytics Capabilities

• Build and manage a robust analytics team to support business intelligence and data-driven decision-making across the organization
• Partner with Product, Finance, Risk, and Operations teams to establish performance metrics, dashboards, and reporting systems that inform company strategy

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field
• Master’s degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred

Experience:

• 5+ years leading company-wide annual strategy and financial planning cycles with some or all of that time directly leading the FP&A function of a high-growth company
• An additional 8+ years of additional experience in Finance, Strategy, Accounting, Analytics, Pricing, or Management Consulting
• Experience leading Pricing strategy and Deal desk review
• Experience…