Strategic Finance Manager

About the role

The Strategic Finance Manager, Horizontal

Revenue Finance defines and drives the financial strategy for Affirm's Horizontal business lines. You turn complex data into coherent strategy, guiding choices that balance performance, risk, and growth with precision and insight. Your analysis shapes how leaders understand portfolio dynamics and prioritize action based on evidence and clarity. You challenge assumptions, connect teams, and translate ambiguity into clear, executable guidance that enables confident decision-making. You will own the financial narrative for the portfolio and user mix, building assumption-driven models that reflect real business conditions and evolving market dynamics. You pressure-test key drivers, validate inputs with partners, and ensure models adapt as the business evolves to maintain relevance and accuracy. Your work will surface insights that inform both immediate adjustments and long-term strategic moves, creating a durable foundation for sustainable performance. You will monitor performance across the portfolio, segment by segment and user by user, to uncover patterns and opportunities hidden in the details. When results deviate from plan, you diagnose root causes, highlight trends, and deliver forward-looking insight that turns observations into proactive strategies. You translate these findings into actions that improve outcomes and strengthen profitability, ensuring every recommendation is grounded in data and aligned with strategic objectives.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Drive the financial strategy for horizontal revenue lines by constructing scenario models and quantifying trade-offs to support informed portfolio choices.
• Build and maintain assumption-driven models that reflect real business conditions, ensuring they adapt as market dynamics, product features, and user behavior evolve over time.
• Pressure-test key drivers through sensitivity and variance analysis, validating inputs with cross-functional partners to confirm accuracy and relevance.
• Monitor portfolio performance at the segment and user level, diagnosing deviations from plan and translating findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Consolidate reporting across the full funnel, including conversion, user growth, volume, and mix, to provide a unified view of performance and emerging risks.
• Clarify how credit, pricing, and commercial decisions move the business by synthesizing drivers and impacts into narratives that leaders can act on with confidence.
• Provide decision support for strategic initiatives by framing investment choices, comparing options under uncertainty, and assessing P&L implications and risk-adjusted returns.
• Translate detailed analysis into executive-ready narratives that align cross-functional stakeholders and keep strategic conversations focused on scale and execution.
• Represent Revenue Finance in key forums by ensuring the finance perspective is central to major decisions and that data-driven rationale guides strategic dialogue.
• Champion analytics in everyday work by using tools such as SQL and Sigma to turn raw data into insight and build dashboards that make performance visible.
• Create frameworks that make performance transparent and support timely decisions, enabling leaders to act quickly based on reliable, up-to-date information.
• Partner closely with Credit, Capital, Product, and Investor Relations, representing Revenue Finance with clarity and rigor to ensure shared ownership of outcomes.
• Influence innovation by spotting patterns, connecting dots across functions, and proposing options that enable efficient, profitable growth grounded in reality.
• Assess risk, opportunity cost, and long-term value to guide resource allocation and ensure investments align with strategic priorities and portfolio health.
• Use SQL and data visualization tools to explore data, test hypotheses, and communicate findings in a manner that directly influences portfolio management and strategic setting.

Requirements

You must bring eight or more years of experience in analytical roles such as strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, data science, or analytics, with a track record of shaping business outcomes in fast-moving environments. You operate with strong business judgment, linking detailed analysis to executive strategy and decision making while understanding how financial results emerge from day-to-day choices. You have experience working with senior stakeholders, steering cross-functional decisions with clarity and confidence, and building trust to manage ambiguity and move initiatives forward even when information is incomplete. You are an expert in financial modeling, maintaining working knowledge of SQL and possessing experience with data visualization tools to build reliable models and clear dashboards that others can use effectively. You thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous settings, using structured thinking to solve complex problems while balancing depth of analysis with speed to deliver insight when it matters most. It is helpful if you know lending, fintech, and payments business models, as understanding how these products create value and risk will strengthen your impact and relevance. Experience using AI-driven tools such as Cursor or Claude Code to enhance analysis and insight generation is a plus, as you explore how technology can improve your workflows and the quality of your output.

Practical notes

You will work full-time in a remote role based in Canada. The compensation range is $168,800 to $225,000 USD annually. Equity and benefits will be provided in accordance with company guidelines. Employees new to Affirm typically receive offers at the start of the pay range. Affirm maintains a simple and transparent pay philosophy.