Strategic FP&A Manager

the company is building a new economic engine for culture, giving the brightest, most interesting, and most creative people on the internet the power of their own publishing platform. the company empowers independent writers, artists, videographers, podcasters, and creators of all types to create, share, and make a living off their work through subscriptions, while offering them creative freedom, ownership, and a direct connection to their audiences.

We are looking for a motivated self-starter to partner with our Head of Strategic FP&A to build a lean AI-native strategic finance and FP&A function. At the company, you’ll work directly alongside leaders across the company to shape the future of independent publishing and media. You’ll analyze our most pressing business challenges and play a leading role in the company-wide forecasting and budgeting process.

• Business Partnering:
  Provide cross-functional colleagues with analytical frameworks to evaluate key departmental resource allocation decisions. A wide range of business needs will emerge as the company grows; specific analysis may include:

• Paid Marketing:
  Determine the return on ad spend benchmarks we should set for different marketing channels.

• Creator Partnerships:
  Set the number of team members to hire in each market as the company scales internationally.

• Company-Wide Budgeting & Forecasting:
  Help drive the company’s annual budget cycle and rolling quarterly re-forecasts. Work directly with department heads to build driver-based operating budgets and headcount plans aligned with core business goals.

• Budget vs. Actuals (BvA) & Variance Analysis:
  Establish spending discipline and monthly BvA cadences across the company. Analyze variance drivers, keep teams on track to meeting their budget targets, and surface proactive risk-mitigation options when expenses or revenues deviate from plan.

• Corporate Financial Model & Long-Range Strategy:
  Investigate core business drivers to contribute to building, maintaining, and continuously upgrading the company’s multi-year corporate financial model. Translate high-level strategic goals into granular financial roadmaps.

• AI-Native Finance Architecture:
  Help architect an AI-native FP&A organization. Leverage automation and modern data workflows to accelerate financial modeling, variance reporting, and scenario planning.

• Strong Professional Foundation: 4–8 years of total experience, typically beginning at an investment bank, investment firm, or consulting firm, followed by strategic finance or FP&A roles at fast-paced technology-enabled companies.

• AI-Native Mindset:
  You are eager to adopt the latest AI tools to automate repetitive work and focus on strategic problem-solving.

• Intuitive Understanding of Data Analysis and Financial Modeling:
  This AI-native mindset should be paired with a strong conceptual grasp of how data is extracted, analyzed, and visualized; you have a foundational understanding of SQL and Python/R, familiarity with visualization tools like Looker/Power BI, and have rigorous training in spreadsheet analysis.

• Experience with any modern FP&A tools (e.g., Adaptive, Aleph, Fintastic, Causal, Cube) is a plus.

• Best Practices Champion:
  You appreciate the lessons you’ve learned from all the companies you’ve worked at and understand that there are times to reinvent the wheel and times to roll with what already works well.

• High Ownership:
  High self-confidence, low ego, and high hustle, with the desire to make things better.

• Motivated by the company’s Mission: the company is at a key inflection point as a company, operating in an industry experiencing rapid change. It must make key strategic decisions and execute on them effectively to thrive. Identifying with the company’s…