Strategic Finance Analyst

About the role

Join Affirm's Strategic Finance team as a Strategic Finance Analyst. In this high-impact role, you will support the growth of Affirm's top-line revenue streams with large B2B merchant partners. You will partner with cross-functional leaders, build and maintain financial models, establish performance metrics, and design scalable dashboards. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, technical proficiency, and the ability to influence and present to all levels of the organization. Key missions: Partner with cross-functional leaders to drive business outcomes through strategic and analytic support.. Build and maintain financial models to forecast, reconcile, and describe variances for various metrics.. Establish top-line performance metrics and targets, analyze and report realized financial performance to Executives. Profile: - Excellent working proficiency in excel (you should be prepared for a financial model case study), and comfort with SQL, Sigma, Cursor and/or other data visualization tools; Python knowledge a plus - Exceptional analytical skills and the ability to synthesize complex financial information into clear, concise reports - Strong sense of ownership, intention, intellectual curiosity, and an ability to think creatively and critically and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and often ambiguous work environment - Curiosity to build things (processes, models, etc.) with/for/around AI - Experience with merchant payments and/or providing analytical support to B2B client relationship and sales teams a plus - 2+ years experience in fast-paced analytical roles (strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, data science, analytics, etc.) - Passion and drive to disrupt the lending and financial industry for the better - Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the capability to navigate cross-functional collaborations effectively and be front and center with company executives - High attention to detail but an equally important ability to see the big picture and evaluate analyses with strategic business context