Strategic Finance Lead

About the role

We're on a mission to deliver everyone a sustainable income. We're building the internet's leading commerce platform for digital products — empowering creators, communities, and entrepreneurs to monetize their knowledge, tools, and audiences. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role sitting at the intersection of finance, strategy, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Own the financial model. Build and maintain a dynamic, company-wide model that supports scenario planning, fundraising, and long-range forecasting.
• Drive the operating cadence. Lead monthly and quarterly business reviews, track KPIs across revenue, margins, and unit economics, and surface insights that drive action.
• Support fundraising and investor relations. Prepare board materials, investor updates, and diligence packages; serve as a key point of contact for investors.
• Build the finance function. As an early member of the finance org, you'll help define processes, tooling, and team structure as we scale.
• Manage budgeting and headcount planning. Partner with department heads to set budgets, manage spend, and make tough prioritization calls.
• Analyze marketplace economics. Develop deep intuition for Whop's platform metrics — GMV, take rate, seller LTV, cohort retention — and translate them into business insights.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in investment banking, growth equity, venture capital, or strategic finance at a high-growth tech company
• Exceptionally strong financial modeling skills — you can build a 3-statement model, LBO, or cohort analysis from scratch
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders with clear, data-driven storytelling
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity; you don't need a playbook to get started
• Experience with marketplace or SaaS business models is a strong plus
• Collaborative by nature — you build trust across functions and communicate with directness and clarity
• Scrappy, entrepreneurial mindset — excited to build systems and processes where none exist

Qualifications

• The expected salary range for this position is $140,000 to $200,000 annually, with final compensation determined based on experience, skills, and qualifications.