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Senior Finance Manager - Banking, Remote

Employer
Shopify
Location
Canada
Closing date
24 Apr 2021

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Function
Legal
Level
Senior Manager

Job Details

Finance's mission is to help support Shopify's growth over the long-term and ensure we achieve our objective of making commerce better for everyone. We are trusted advisors and growth partners to the business, always striving to learn, provide insights, solve complex problems and contribute positive impact. Finance also plays an important role at the strategic planning table and helps influence the future direction of Shopify.

Our Financial Planning & Analysis team is looking for a Senior Finance Manager to provide financial leadership for our Banking product line, consisting of our Shopify Capital and Shopify Balance products. Shopify Capital helps entrepreneurs obtain the funds they need to grow their businesses. Shopify Balance helps entrepreneurs control their finances.

If you are seasoned at working in a rapidly scaling environment, and enjoy working within a high performing team; in your cover letter, tell us how your experience makes you a great fit here.

Qualifications

You'll be working on things like:
  • Leading efforts with our product teams to gain a deep understanding of new and existing products, and provide financial forecasts as well as KPIs to track product performance
  • Working with Shopify business leaders to support the development of the annual investment plan, monthly forecasts and review of business performance
  • Conducting proactive industry and product research to support strategic decisions and analysis
  • Owning and supporting the preparation of presentations and analysis used for Senior Leadership reviews
  • Communicating performance throughout the organization, including providing guidance and actionable recommendations
  • Partnering with our Commercial and Legal teams to review business development contracts, evaluate pricing and terms, and provide recommendations to Senior Leadership
  • Leading, coaching, and developing a high performance team, and teaching and mentoring more broadly across the organization
  • Assisting with forward-thinking special projects and analyses, as required

Here's what you'll need:
  • Leadership and management experience within a high growth environment - building, leading, and managing a high performance team
  • Proven and progressive experience with financial service products and/or banking solutions
  • Strong technical understanding of banking businesses, including commercial and financial frameworks
  • Seasoned at working in both a strategic and operational capacity to lead/partner on business objectives
  • Ability to effectively partner with stakeholders across Shopify including Commercial, Operations, Data, and Finance to analyze and report on the financial impact of decisions
  • Expertise in creating meaningful analyses for new products, operational improvements, and cost improvements
  • Extensive experience preparing monthly/quarterly financial reporting & analysis, leading Investment Planning efforts, P&L forecasts and proven capability to prepare and present financial results with the bias for driving to insight
  • Proven ability to recommend, influence, develop, and implement policies and programs that guide business units to improve competitive positioning and profitability
  • Strong financial modelling skills including expert proficiency in Excel, Google Sheets and significant experience in other data analysis tools, Tableau and/or Mode
  • Professional designation (CFA, CA, CMA, CGA, or CPA) or MBA


We know looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. Matthew Ruban is a real live person (👋) and is looking forward to learning more about you through your application. Don't forget to include a cover letter, we love a good story!

Please note that applications will close on April 23rd, 2021,at 5pm EDT.

At Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.

Company

With a comprehensive set of industry-leading tools, Shopify has helped over 1,000,000 people in 175 countries take control of where they take their businesses. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Shopify has worked with brands like Unilever, Kylie Cosmetics, Allbirds and countless others that started with nothing but an idea, a passion, or a purpose. We build products that help entrepreneurs around the world start and grow their businesses. As a workplace, we challenge and support you to hone your craft and make an impact. Visit our careers page for opportunities: https://www.shopify.com/careers

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