Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
About the Finance team
The Finance team ensures Affirm remains financially sound and strategically positioned for growth. Our team manages financial planning, accounting, pricing, vendor management, tax, investor relations, and corporate development. We deliver timely insights, accurate reporting, and careful analysis to support decision-making. From day-to-day financial operations to major investments, we enable sustainable, informed growth by maintaining strong fiscal discipline.
About the team
We're looking for a passionate and analytically minded professional to join the Strategic Finance team to support the growth of Affirm’s top-line in revenue streams with large business-to-business (“B2B”) merchant partners. Strategic Finance is responsible for driving company strategy, empowering executive decision making with real time forecasts and analytics, and guiding the company towards achieving its goals. This high impact, highly visible role sits on the Revenue Finance group, a scrappy, tight-knit team with outsized cross-functional impact and ownership. The ideal candidate will not only have superb technical skills but also strong interpersonal skills and the ability to influence and present to all levels of the organization.
What you'll do
Partner with cross functional leaders (i.e. Product, Growth Analytics, Credit, Revenue and, Merchant Pricing) to drive business outcomes through strategic and analytic support
Build and maintain financial models to forecast, reconcile, and describe variances for our gamut of metrics
Collaborate with our ML modeling team to marry your modeling with aggregated ML forecasts
Establish top-line performance metrics and targets, analyze and report realized financial performance to Executives and other company leaders, and drive accountability for results
Design and deliver scalable automated user and financial dashboards and analytics for cross departmental and executive consumption
What we look for
Passion and drive to disrupt the lending and financial industry for the better
Strong sense of ownership, intention, intellectual curiosity, and an ability to think creatively and critically and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and often ambiguous work environment
2+ years experience in fast-paced analytical roles (strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, data science, analytics, etc.)
Exceptional analytical skills and the ability to synthesize complex financial information into clear, concise reports
High attention to detail but an equally important ability to see the big picture and evaluate analyses with strategic business context
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the capability to navigate cross-fun