Strategic Finance Manager

Job description

## About VGS VGS is building the trust infrastructure for a new era of commerce. As commerce becomes agentic, payments are increasing dramatically in volume, speed, and complexity, and the companies driving that shift need a foundation they can fully trust. That's where VGS comes in. We're the world's leader in payment tokenization, trusted by the most innovative AI and Fortune 500 companies, merchants, banks, and fintechs to power modern payments and agentic commerce. We store more than 9 billion tokens and process more than 10 billion monthly interactions, touching a third of all e-commerce. That scale isn't incidental. It's why leading companies embed our universal token vault and credential management platform directly into their stack, taming the complexity of payment data so they can move faster. Come build the platform that enables modern payments for the world's largest companies. We're helping businesses unlock new possibilities in an industry that never stops moving. And that takes exceptional people. --- ## About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Finance Manager to help shape the financial and corporate strategy of a rapidly growing payments infrastructure company. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of strategic finance, FP&A, corporate development, and capital markets. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will work closely with the CEO and executive team on some of the company’s most consequential decisions. **You will own the company’s integrated financial model and use it to answer questions such as:** - Where should we invest to maximize long-term value? - How quickly can we scale while maintaining financial discipline? - How should we finance growth? - How should we evaluate acquisitions, partnerships, and other strategic opportunities? - How do different operating and capital-structure decisions affect cash, dilution, and shareholder outcomes? This is not a traditional reporting-focused FP&A position. The right candidate will combine exceptional financial modeling with strong commercial judgment, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to operate effectively in an evolving startup environment. --- ## What You'll Do **Company Financial Model and Scenario Planning** - Own and continuously improve the company’s integrated three-statement financial model. - Translate operational drivers—including bookings, revenue, pricing, customer behavior, headcount, and expenses—into reliable financial forecasts. Build rapid scenario analyses for growth investments, pricing decisions, organizational plans, and strategic alternatives. - Evaluate the impact of decisions on revenue, profitability, cash flow, capital requirements, and company value. - Develop both detailed near-term forecasts and long-range strategic plans. **Strategic Transactions and Corporate Development** - Support the evaluation of acquisitions, partnerships, and other inorganic growth opportunities. - Build valuation, returns, synergy, accretion/dilution, and financing analyses. - Support transaction processes from initial screening through diligence, structuring, and integration planning. - Develop clear recommendations that balance strategic rationale, financial returns, execution risk, and opportunity cost. **Capital Structure and Shareholder Analysis** - Maintain a detailed understanding of the company’s capitalization and ownership structure. Model equity financings, debt alternatives, secondary transactions, acquisitions, and other capital-structure scenarios. Analyze dilution, shareholder proceeds, payout waterfalls, and financing tradeoffs. - Partner with legal, accounting, and external advisors to ensure analyses are accurate and decision-ready. **Financial Planning and Performance Management** - Lead the annual planning process, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning. - Partner with functional leaders on headcount, operating expenses, investment priorities, and performance targets. - Identify the operating and financial drivers behind variances, emerging risks, and opportunities. - Connect short-term financial performance to the company’s broader strategic objectives. **Executive, Board, and Investor Support** - Prepare decision-ready materials for executive leadership, the board, investors, and other external stakeholders. - Turn complex financial analysis into concise narratives, recommendations, and clear choices. - Support fundraising and investor diligence processes as needed. - Help leadership evaluate tradeoffs across growth, profitability, liquidity, and long-term enterprise value. **Finance Infrastructure** - Improve the speed, reliability, and transparency of the company’s forecasting and decision-support processes. - Establish clear assumptions, controls, and documentation around key models. - Partner with Accounting and operational teams to strengthen data quality and ensure consistency between actual results and forecasts. - Identify opportunities to automate recurring analysis and create more scalable finance workflows. --- ## What You Bring - 4–7+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, strategic finance, corporate development, or a similarly rigorous analytical environment. - Exceptional financial modeling skills, including integrated three-statement models, transaction analysis, valuation, and multi-scenario forecasting. - Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and how operating decisions flow through the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. Ability to move comfortably between detailed analysis and executive-level recommendations. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience explaining complex financial topics to non-finance stakeholders. Demonstrated judgment, discretion, and maturity when working with sensitive company information. - High ownership, attention to detail, and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities. **Nice to Have:** - Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products - BA/BS degree - A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment - Experience evaluating acquisitions, financing alternatives, or strategic transactions. Familiarity with cap tables, equity financings, transaction waterfalls, and shareholder-return analysis. - Experience preparing materials for boards, investors, lenders, or senior executives. Exposure to operational planning, pricing analysis, or sales compensation. - Experience with financial systems, planning platforms, or business-intelligence tools is helpful but not required. ---