Strategic Finance Lead, Value

About Faire

Faire is a technology wholesale platform that connects independent retailers globally with products from around the world. Founded in 2017 by former Square employees, Faire aims to level the playing field for local businesses through technology and data.

About This Role

The Finance & Strategy team at Faire ensures access to capital and effective spending while also planning for growth, managing performance, and analyzing business metrics. This role involves identifying financial opportunities, developing financial models, and supporting strategic planning across various initiatives.

• Identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, and execute in-depth analyses to inform product strategy and execution for Faire's financial products
• Own forecasting, goal-setting, and tracking of key inputs that drive ROI across Faire's financial value propositions
• Support company-wide capital markets strategies to ensure Faire remains competitive in financing
• Lead strategic planning across key growth initiatives and new product launches
• Enable the organization to remain highly data-driven at scale by synthesizing insights, building financial models, and developing KPIs for real-time performance monitoring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in strategic finance, private equity / credit / venture capital, investment banking, and/or management consulting
• Investor mindset: nose for value with a broad toolkit to reason about risk/reward
• Strong modeling muscle: ability to build and stress-test financial models that reflect a point of view, not just spreadsheet theory
• Analytical rigor: synthesis of information, problem decomposition, use of data and logic to diagnose root causes—comfortable going deep on unit economics without losing the strategic question
• Excellent communication: credible, structured storytelling for executives and cross-functional partners; ability to zoom-in and zoom-out between detail and narrative
• Cross-functional: track record building trust and influencing results alongside a variety of different stakeholder groups
• Team-oriented: motivated by business outcomes and being great at your craft in service of enabling them

Nice To Have

• Experience in fintech and/or SMB enablement technology
• Knowledge of SQL

Pay and Benefits

San Francisco and New York City: the pay range for this role is $164,000 to $225,500 per year. This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Hybrid: Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting.