Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Your Role:

Our finance team at Alpaca is seeking an FP&A Manager to lead financial planning, analysis, and reporting for our fast-growing and innovative API-driven trading brokerage. In this role, you'll manage budgeting, forecasting, and performance insights to drive strategic decisions, collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced fintech environment. Reporting to the Finance Director, you'll support a range of key processes including financial forecasting and budgeting, monthly/quarterly closes, data analysis and growth modeling, and investor communications.

Things You Get To Do:

• Forecasting and Budgeting: Maintain complex forecasting models and oversee the quarterly/annual budgeting process, incorporating key metrics from API integrations, trading activities, and various other economic indicators.
• Financial Modelling: Build and update financial models to support scenario planning, initiative assessments, cash flow forecasting, and investment evaluations to support a range of forecasting and strategic planning for the company.
• Financial Closing: Assist with and ultimately lead the monthly/quarterly financial closing processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness and delivering key insights to management.
• Reporting: Prepare monthly/quarterly reports for internal management updates, team presentations, and external stakeholders including investor communications, quarterly board meetings, marketing or fundraising materials, etc.
• Variance Analysis: Perform variance analysis on financials and key business metrics, using internal models and data dashboards to track and analyze performance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams on budgeting, resource allocation, and hiring processes.
• Ad-Hoc Projects: Handle ad-hoc requests, projects, and special analyses, such as product profitability assessments or risk evaluations.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 5+ years in finance, with experience in financial modeling, forecasting/budgeting, and data analysis ideally in the fintech or brokerage space.
• Advanced skills in Excel, G-Suite, SQL, Python, or similar systems/applications.
• Very strong analytical abilities for variance analysis, scenario modeling, and metric tracking in a dynamic business.
• Excellent communication for reports, presentations, and cross-team collaboration.
• Exceptional problem-solving with a curious and strategic mindset and high attention to detail.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth remote setting and adapt to evolving industry regulations.

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): 

• CFA, MBA, or advanced finance certification.
• Experience in the fintech sector, particularly with analyzing revenues generated by trading platforms, recurring subscriptions, and brokerage services.
• Team leadership or cross-functional project management in tech environments.
• Knowledge of statistical/machine learning tools for advanced forecasting.
• Previous experience at both large companies and start-ups.
• Passion for investing, trading innovations, and financial markets or the desire to learn.