Head of Strategic Finance

Role Description

We're hiring our first dedicated Head of Strategic Finance to own the financial engine behind that expansion — the model, the metrics, the money decisions, and the commercial deals behind every new product and partnership. You'll report to the CEO, work daily with the Executive Team, and lead our Analytics/BI team, Fractional CFO, and Controller. This is a builder's seat, not an inherited function. You'll be the connective tissue between finance, data, and product at a newly profitable fintech scaling at startup speed — and the mandate is designed to grow with the company.

What You'll Own

• The numbers: Build and run the company P&L, forecasting, and long-range growth models for a business growing 100%+ YoY. Own the annual operating plan, monthly close-to-forecast variance analysis, and board/investor reporting.
• Unit economics & product-finance: Be in the details of every product and experience — LTV, CAC, LTV:CAC, ARPU, contribution margin, payback, cohort retention. Surface the correlations and causations that lift growth and translate them into product and pricing opportunities.
• Commercial & vendor: Lead RFP, procurement, contract negotiation, and ongoing vendor/partner management for every new service and partnership — sponsor/BaaS banks, HYSA, mortgage & insurance referral partners, and key vendors. You'll negotiate the economics, not just the paperwork.
• The finance & analytics org: Lead and develop Analytics/BI, the Fractional CFO, and the Controller. Deliver clean books, reliable BI, and a single source of truth for decision-making.
• Strategic partnership: Partner with the CEO and executives on capital efficiency, resource allocation, new-product business cases, and capital strategy for the next phase.

What Success Looks Like (6–12 Months)

• A trusted, single-source financial model and metrics layer the exec team runs the business on.
• Per-product unit-economics visibility that has directly informed at least one growth or margin decision.
• A repeatable RFP/procurement/vendor process, with materially improved terms on at least one major partnership.
• A high-functioning finance + analytics team with clean, reliable reporting.

How You Work

• Hands-on, every day: You build the model yourself — you don't commission it.
• Founder speed: You thrive in ambiguity, thin support, and 100%+ YoY change.
• Low ego, high ownership: Peer-partner to the CEO, product and marketing leaders; you translate finance into tactical decisions, not reports.
• Strong written communication: Board materials, decision docs, and negotiation memos that stand on their own.

This role is explicitly not for "hand-off executives" who direct from altitude or career big-company FP&A operators who've never built from scratch.

Qualifications

• 8–15+ years combining a foundation in investment banking / PE / growth equity / top-tier consulting with operating strategic finance / FP&A / BizOps at a high-growth (100%+ YoY) consumer fintech — ideally through a Series B→C/D scaling and a path-to-profitability inflection.
• You've personally built the financial model (not maintained a big-company one) and owned unit economics for a subscription and/or transaction/interchange business.
• Deep fluency in fintech/PFM & neobank unit economics — LTV:CAC (≥3:1), CAC payback (<12 mo), ARPU, contribution margin, cohort analysis, interchange/take-rate and partner-bank economics.
• Data-native — fluent in SQL/warehouse workflows; able to run and level up an analytics team, not just consume dashboards.
• Commercial/deal chops — you've led RFP → procurement → negotiation and can quantify the economics you captured.

Nice to Have

• Operated through a new-product launch on top of a core subscription business (banking, HYSA, lending, or referral marketplaces).
• Experience partnering with (or managing) a data/analytics org through a finance-data integration.
• Exposure to AI-augmented finance workflows and modern data tooling.

What's Not Included

This role is not a fit for candidates seeking a delegative, oversight-only position, those without hands-on modeling depth, or that never led a business and product decisions beyond financial accounting and BS/P&L management.

Eligibility Requirements

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Origin does not sponsor visas.

Benefits

• Financial Benefits:
• Generous base salary
• Meaningful equity package
• Retirement 401k for USA-based Originals
• Healthcare and wellness programs:
• Healthcare
• Wellness stipend
• Mental wellness program
• Unlimited access to financial planning
• Life insurance for USA-based Originals
• Work-life balance:
• Unlimited DPTO
• Remote-first culture
• Flexible hours (Core hours: 9 AM to 5 PM local time)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Additional perks:
• Parenthood and fertility assistance
• Monthly co-working membership reimbursement
• English tutoring stipend for International Originals
• Build your home-office one-time stipend
• Pick your setup (Apple, Windows) and accessories

Company Description

Fulfilling our mission is only possible with a diverse team that breathes for excellence and is hugely committed to making money simple for everyone, everywhere. As a team, we are obsessed with delivering the best solution possible to our members through an elegant and self-guided experience. We know that building a product of this magnitude requires from us tons of creativity, autonomy, and flexibility to move fast and embrace uncertainties with ownership. This is who we daily pursue to be!

To embrace talented people like this and provide the necessary resources to achieve their best versions, we believe in the power of a healthy environment where each person is valued for who they are and have clear goals and expectations for the future they can build within the company. Each person here is seen as a key player in our team.

Our environment is diverse, with excellent people and equal opportunities. We believe in the power of the individuality and uniqueness of each of us to make our team even more powerful.

We are building an outstanding solution, and here is an invitation for you to become an Original and join us on this journey!