As a Strategic Finance Manager at PPRO, you will be a pivotal leader within the Strategic Finance team, bridging the gap between corporate financial discipline and commercial growth. You will embed yourself within our global organization—spanning Europe, the Americas, and APAC—to act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership.
This unique role bridges the gap between operational discipline and strategic growth. You will spearhead our OpEx reporting infrastructure while playing a pivotal role in budgeting, pricing optimization, and go-to-market execution. To thrive, you must be a master of the P&L, capable of balancing granular cost management with the commercial acumen needed to structure complex, multi-million dollar partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
- OpEx Ownership: Lead monthly OpEx reporting and act as the core finance business partner to internal departments. Collaborate closely with the Accounting team during month-end close to ensure flawless financial accuracy.
- Performance Management & Forecasting: Lead the financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting cycles for operational spend. Drive deep visibility into monthly performance against budget, proactively identifying trends, risks, and mitigation strategies.
- Process Scalability: Champion a continuous improvement mindset by identifying inefficiencies, challenging legacy processes, and implementing scalable finance and reporting frameworks across cross-functional teams.
- GTM Strategy & Growth: Provide robust financial modeling and strategic analysis for new market entry, sales channel optimization, and marketing campaign effectiveness to accelerate sustainable revenue growth.
- Revenue & Deal Structuring: Partner with commercial teams on complex deal structuring, pricing strategies, and strategic partnerships. Assess ROI, commercial viability, and long-term impacts on gross profit and revenue retention.
- Commercial Incentive Management: Own the end-to-end financial design, management, and assessment of sales commission plans and incentive schemes, ensuring alignment between sales performance and corporate revenue targets.
- Executive & Board Reporting: Synthesize complex commercial and operational data into clear narratives. Prepare high-impact materials for the Board of Directors and investor reports, highlighting key revenue drivers and commercial KPIs.
This pillar focuses on driving financial discipline, operational efficiency, and keeping the global organization on track against profitability targets.
This pillar focuses on top-line growth, market expansion, and maximizing the ROI of our commercial engines.
Qualifications & Skills
- Education & Experience:
- 5+ PQE CIMA / ACCA / ACA or equivalent.
- Proven experience in a high-growth environment (Payments or Fintech space preferred).
- Experience spanning FP&A, commercial business partnering, or investment banking.
- Demonstrated experience managing month-end close processes in partnership with Accounting teams, ensuring accuracy, control, and timely reporting.
- Technical Proficiency:
- Advanced Excel skills with a mastery of financial modeling
- Proficiency in SQL / Google BigQuery to extract and manipulate data independently.
- Strong understanding of financial reporting, KPI frameworks, and business performance analytics.
- Soft Skills:
- Strategic Communication: Ability to distill ambiguous problems into solutions and present them confidently to senior business leaders.
- Project Leadership: Ability to manage initiatives from concept through implementation, influencing stakeholders across different time zones and functions.
- Analytical Rigor: A detail-oriented mindset with the ability to maintain a "big picture" strategic lens.
Skills Required
- 5+ PQE CIMA / ACCA / ACA or equivalent
- Proven experience in high-growth environment (Payments or Fintech preferred)
- Experience in FP&A, commercial business partnering, or investment banking
- Experience managing month-end close processes with Accounting teams
- Advanced Excel skills with financial modeling mastery
- Proficiency in SQL / Google BigQuery
What We Do
PPRO is a fintech company that provides digital payments infrastructure to businesses and banks so that they can scale their checkout, acquiring, and risk services through one connection. Payment platforms, acquirers, and merchants that plug into PPRO’s infrastructure are able to access payment methods, fraud screening tools, and other essential products from multiple providers. Every product can be deployed and controlled with clicks, not code. And with the company's orchestration layer directing process flows and data like clockwork, PPRO’s partners can rest easy knowing they’re delivering seamless end-to-end services to their customers. Citi, PayPal, and Stripe are just some of the names that depend on PPRO to accelerate their roadmaps, boost their conversions, and eliminate the complexities of digital payments.
