Director, FP&A
Nium provides global payments infrastructure for businesses, banks, fintechs, marketplaces, payroll providers, and travel companies. Its platform supports multi-currency accounts, global payouts, foreign exchange, card issuing, account verification, APIs, and stablecoin-backed cards.
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About Nium
Nium is a global payments infrastructure company that helps businesses collect, hold, convert, and disburse funds across borders. Its products include multi-currency accounts, global payouts, foreign exchange, physical and virtual card issuing, bank account verification, the Nium Portal, APIs, and stablecoin-backed card programs. Nium serves banks, financial institutions, money transfer operators, marketplaces, payroll providers, enterprises, creators, airlines, hotels, and online travel agencies.
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About the Role
You will lead Nium's financial planning and analysis function, owning the company's financial planning, forecasting, and performance insights. You will build and maintain driver-based financial forecasts grounded in operational reality, deliver timely budget vs. actuals analysis, and provide client- and cohort-level financial insight. You will proactively identify risks and trade-offs, partner with Revenue Operations, Solutions Engineering, Strategic Finance, and Treasury, and develop financial models and scenario analyses for strategic decisions. You will lead and mentor a high-performing FP&A team, prepare financial materials for executive leadership, the Board, and investors, and implement next-generation FP&A systems and dashboards.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, or related roles
- Experience in fintech, payments, or other transaction-based technology businesses
- Proven ownership of complex, end-to-end planning and forecasting processes in high-growth, global environments
- Demonstrated ability to build driver-based financial models that reflect how the business actually behaves
- Strong judgment and intellectual curiosity, with a track record of constructively challenging assumptions and anticipating leadership questions
- Ability to clearly communicate financial insights and implications to executive, Board, and investor audiences
- High proficiency in Excel and modern financial planning and analytics tools
- Ability to manage ambiguity, large data sets, and multiple concurrent priorities with discipline and clarity
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the annual financial planning process, rolling forecasts, and long-range plans with clear timelines, accountability, and rigor
- Build and maintain driver-based financial forecasts grounded in operational reality, explicitly modeling seasonality, onboarding ramps, client concentration, timing lags, and variability
- Deliver timely and insightful budget vs. actuals analysis, translating financial variances into underlying operational and commercial drivers
- Provide client- and cohort-level financial insight, including analysis of top clients, pipeline dynamics, onboarding progress, churn, and margin performance
- Proactively identify risks, trade-offs, and emerging issues, communicating decision points early
- Partner closely with Revenue Operations, Solutions Engineering, Strategic Finance, and Treasury to ensure financial narratives align with commercial and operational reality
- Develop financial models and conduct scenario analysis to evaluate growth initiatives, investments, and strategic decisions
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team
- Prepare and support financial materials for executive leadership, the Board, and investors, including data room support and diligence requests
- Implement and scale next-generation FP&A systems and dashboards that integrate financial and operational data
Benefits
- Competitive salaries and performance bonuses
- Sales commissions
- Equity for specific roles
- Recognition programs
- Medical coverage
- 24/7 employee assistance program
- Generous vacation programs including year-end shut down
- Flexible hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office)
- Role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend
- Company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, and team offsites
