Strategic Finance Analyst

Job Description

Strategic Finance Lead, Value | Faire

The Tone:
This is a full-time hybrid role at Faire, located in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY. Faire operates a technology wholesale platform connecting independent retailers globally to products. This role is crucial for ensuring Faire optimally allocates capital as a core value proposition, leading to sustainable growth and customer loyalty. It involves supporting strategic growth planning, performance management, and business analysis within a dynamic, data-driven environment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid San Francisco, CA / New York City, NY
• Pay: $164000–$225500 yearly
• Team: Finance & Strategy team
• Mission: Inform how Faire can optimally allocate capital in the form of customer benefits that translates to sustainable growth and customer loyalty.
• Tech Stack: SQL

What You’ll Actually Do
• Analyze Product Strategy: Identify opportunities and conduct in-depth analyses to inform product strategy and execution for Faire’s proprietary financial products.
• Manage Financial Performance: Own forecasting, goal-setting, and tracking of key inputs that drive ROI across Faire’s financial value propositions to guide company-level capital and resource allocation decisions.
• Support Capital Markets: Contribute to company-wide capital markets strategies, ensuring Faire has the necessary financing to fuel program benefits.
• Lead Strategic Planning: Spearhead strategic planning across key growth initiatives and new product launches.
• Enable Data-Driven Decisions: Build financial models, develop KPIs, and synthesize insights to enable the organization to make highly data-driven decisions at scale.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in strategic finance, private equity/credit/venture capital, investment banking, and/or management consulting.
• Experience: 5+ years in relevant financial domains with a proven track record of building trust and influencing results alongside diverse stakeholder groups.
• Skills: Investor mindset with a strong ability to reason about risk/reward, robust modeling muscle to build and stress-test financial models, analytical rigor for problem decomposition and root cause diagnosis, excellent communication for executive and cross-functional partners, and a team-oriented approach motivated by business outcomes.
• Bonus: Experience in fintech and/or SMB enablement technology; knowledge of SQL.