Strategic Finance Manager

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet.

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What You’ll Be Part OfCircle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we’re expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values:
High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.
What You’ll Be Responsible For Circle is looking for a Strategic Finance Manager to help drive the financial strategy behind Circle's highest‑priority growth initiatives across strategic partnerships, product monetization, M&A, and other revenue. You will own complex, executive‑facing financial analysis that informs how Circle allocates capital, structures commercial opportunities, evaluates strategic transactions, and scales new products across the emerging internet of money.
You will report to the Sr. Manager, Strategic Finance and partner closely with Finance, Product, Business Development, Corporate Development, Legal, Accounting, Data, and executive leadership. This role requires a finance athlete who can move fluidly between detailed modeling and crisp storytelling: building the model, pressure‑testing the assumptions, translating the output into a clear recommendation, and driving alignment with senior stakeholders.
This role is designed for someone who has operated in high‑intensity financial environments and is ready to own strategic work streams with significant ambiguity, visibility, and business impact. The ideal candidate brings investment banking and/or private equity training, strategic finance experience in a fast‑paced growth company, elite modeling judgment, strong executive presence, and a practical command of AI tools to accelerate analysis, automation, and insight generation.
What You’ll Work On

• Lead complex financial modeling for Circle’s strategic priorities, including major commercial partnerships, ecosystem incentives, new product launches, M&A, investment opportunities, and long‑range growth initiatives.
• Own product‑level financial models for revenue, including transaction revenue, subscription and services revenue, platform monetization, product unit economics, customer economics, and scenario‑based revenue forecasting.
• Partner with Product, Business Development, Corporate Development, and GTM leaders to evaluate new monetization models, partnership structures, pricing constructs, margin tradeoffs, and capital allocation decisions.
• Build and maintain investment‑grade models that can support executive decision‑making, including detailed revenue builds, sensitivity analyses, valuation frameworks, synergy cases, downside scenarios, cohort economics, and ROI / payback analyses.
• Translate complex analysis into clear, compelling executive narratives for CFO/CCO reviews, operating reviews, Board materials, strategic planning, and cross‑functional decision forums.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to senior leadership by identifying key drivers, risks, and tradeoffs across strategic initiatives, and by making clear recommendations rather than simply reporting outputs.
• Develop financial frameworks to evaluate build / buy / partner decisions, including market sizing, strategic rationale, integration considerations, investment requirements, and financial return profiles.
• Partner with Accounting, Legal, Tax, Treasury, and Data teams to ensure models reflect operational realities, accounting considerations, regulatory…