Strategic Finance Senior Manager

As Marqeta’s Strategic Finance Senior Manager you will join Marqeta's FP&A team. This role sits at the center of the most consequential financial questions the company is asking — cross-functional strategic initiatives, long-range planning, resource allocation, investment trade-offs, and product profitability — and partners directly with FP&A leadership to answer them.

This is a Strategic Finance role in the truest sense. The work isn't structured around the close calendar — that's the planning team's mandate. You'll certainly have recurring cadences: board-meeting analysis, leadership reviews, planning cycles. But most of your week looks like working through a portfolio of strategic projects that shape real decisions. One week you might be modeling marketing LTV to test whether a proposed budget increase actually pencils out.

Next, you're partnering with the credit team on a build-versus-partner analysis for a new product. The week after, you're stress‑testing a long‑range scenario for an upcoming board meeting. Some projects span months; others resolve in a few days. The through line is that good financial thinking shapes the decision.

You'll also work closely with the VP, FP&A as a trusted partner — running projects independently, representing FP&A in rooms when needed, and absorbing scope as the function grows. This is a player‑coach role from day one: while it starts as an individual contributor, you'll set the bar for analytical quality across the broader team, mentor analysts informally, and grow into formal people management as the team scales.

You’ll partner directly with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations leadership — embedded enough to understand what each team is actually trying to do, financial enough to translate that into models and recommendations, and senior enough to push back when the numbers don't support the narrative. The work spans the full P&L: topline modeling (revenue, gross profit, unit economics) and operating expense (headcount, marketing investment, T&E, vendor spend, capex).

Most Strategic Finance roles skew one way or the other — this one expects fluency across both.

The pace at Marqeta is fast, the executive visibility is high, and the work is genuinely interesting. The right person is energized by ambiguity, takes pride in a clean model, and gets excited about helping operators make better decisions.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the U.S. or from our local Oakland office. We'd love for you to join us!

• Lead cross‑functional strategic projects end‑to‑end — from problem framing through analysis to executive recommendation. Some projects run for months, others land and resolve in two weeks.
• Build the financial models that underpin the company's biggest decisions — long‑range plans, investment cases, product P&L architecture, scenario analyses for executive and board conversations.
• Partner with Sales leadership on topline strategy: bookings models, customer cohort economics, segment profitability, productivity assumptions — bringing financial rigor to the GTM conversation.
• Partner with Marketing on demand generation ROI, channel investment trade‑offs, and how marketing spend connects to pipeline and bookings outcomes.
• Partner with Product and Operations leaders on opex management — building visibility into headcount investment, vendor spend, T&E, and capex against the financial plan.
• Drive deep‑dive analyses that surface what the numbers are actually telling us — and translate those findings into recommendations that operators can act on.
• Build ROI frameworks the company can use to evaluate investment trade‑offs consistently — across hires, programs, products, and initiatives.
• Prepare executive and board‑level materials that distill complex analyses into clear narratives on company performance, strategic options, and trade‑offs.
• Act as a trusted deputy to the VP of FP&A — running projects independently, representing the function in cross‑functional conversations, and absorbing scope as the function grows.
• Set the bar for analytical quality across the team — mentoring analysts informally from day one, and…