Shopify Looking for Finance Manager, Merchant Services (remote, Americas) at Stamford, CT, United States Full Time

Job Description

Company Description
Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more.
Shopify is now permanently remote, and we’re working towards a future that is digital by design. That location you see above? Consider it merely an example of hundreds of potential locations across North America where Shopify is hiring. Learn more here: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere

We are adding a Finance Manager to our Merchant Services Finance team. In this highly visible role, you will partner closely with a product line within Merchant Services, providing planning, forecasting, analysis, and decision support. Shopify’s Merchant Services team runs the Payments, Capital, Balance, Retail, Shipping, Transactions, and Marketplaces product lines, accounting for more than 70% of Shopify’s total revenues.
You’ll be working on things like:

• Leading efforts with our product team to gain a deep understanding of new and existing products
• Rolling up your sleeves in building financial forecasts, as well as helping to establish KPIs to track product performance
• Partnering with our Commercial and Legal teams to review business development contracts, evaluate pricing and terms, and provide recommendations to Senior Leadership
• Working with Shopify business leaders to support the development of the annual investment plan, monthly forecasts, and review of business performance
• Conducting proactive industry and product research to support strategic decisions and analysis
• Owning and supporting the preparation of presentations and analysis used for Senior Leadership reviews
• Communicating performance throughout the organization, including providing guidance and actionable recommendations
• Building, coaching, and developing a high performance team, and teaching and mentoring more broadly across the organization
• Assisting with forward-thinking special projects and analyses, as required

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Leadership and management experience within a high growth environment – building, leading, and managing a high performance team, but also being comfortable rolling up your sleeves in the nitty gritty work
• Seasoned at working in both a strategic and operational capacity to lead/partner on business objectives
• Ability to effectively partner with internal stakeholders across Shopify including Product, Operations, Commercial, Data, Tax and Finance to build business cases, and to analyze and report on the financial impact of decisions
• Experience playing a lead finance role in managing external partnerships
• Extensive experience preparing monthly/quarterly financial reporting & analysis, leading Investment Planning efforts, P&L forecasts and proven capability to prepare and present financial results with the bias for driving to insight
• Proven ability to recommend, influence, develop, and implement policies and programs that guide business units to improve competitive positioning and profitability
• Strong financial modeling skills including expert proficiency in Excel, Google Sheets and significant experience in other data analysis tools, Tableau and/or Mode
• Professional designation (CFA, CA, CMA, CGA, or CPA) or MBA

Additional Information
We know that applying for a new role takes a lot of work and we truly value your time. We look forward to reviewing your application!

Shopify is now permanently remote, and we’re working towards a future that is digital by design. That location you see above? Consider it merely an example of hundreds of potential locations Shopify is hiring. Learn more here: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere
Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet.
At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team – so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.