Finance & Strategy Manager, Square Product P&Ls

Company Description

Since we opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely, and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together.

So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, offer buy now, pay later functionality through Afterpay, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. Across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow in one place. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.

Today, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.

Job Description

Finance & Strategy improves strategic, financial and operational decision-making across the company. Our team’s core value is trust – we build it by making what is complex simple, and with analysis that is accurate and easy-to-understand. Business partners appreciate our insight and trust us to help them solve difficult problems across the company. At Block we believe that good ideas can come from anywhere, and we’ll trust you to collaborate with others, form intelligent opinions, and present your thoughts to decision-makers and the executive team.

We are looking for a Finance & Strategy manager comfortable in a high visibility role that is a necessary member of the Square Corporate F&S team supporting our Product P&Ls. You will further expand varying processes within our Product P&Ls and provide expertise with business guidance needed to plan the future of our reporting. Activities span across setting up a structured process, implementing business changes that require P&L updates, to brainstorming and creating improvements to our underlying model. You will have experience working on many-sided transformation projects within an FP&A organization including:

Business Process Management

Strong modeling skills

Financial reporting

Familiarity with cost allocations and profitability measurement (Indicators)

Management Reporting & Analytics

Project and change management  

This role requires significant collaboration with key finance operations responsibilities (Finance & Strategy, Business Intelligence, Product Teams to GMs) to create excellence in our P&L reporting and provide tangible insights into business performance. 

You will have an understanding of financial planning and reporting processes, best practices and the latest applications of related technologies. You will be collaborative with cross functional partners, with the expectation that you will be a necessary partner at the intersection of finance and technology.

This position can sit in any US Block office or be full-time remote.

Qualifications

You Will:

• Build important relationships across F&S and other functional organizations across Block
• Deliver status updates of ongoing Product P&L programs, including new developments and potential risks, promptly to all partners involved
• Lead the standardization of processes
• Deliver communications on company-wide best practices to create efficiencies for both finance team members and business partners
• Help prepare analysis and reporting, supporting inbound questions when clarification is needed
• Guide F&S transformation programs including P&L reporting, management analytics & dashboards
• Promote the deployment and adoption of new tools and capabilities within F&S
• Build trust through numerically-driven insights

You Have:

• 5+ years of strategy and finance experience in corporate finance/FP&A, management consulting or high-growth technology. Experience building partnerships in a FinTech, Payments or SaaS company
• Experience with finance and economics, with experience advising executives on decisions related to balancing growth and profitability
• Excellent financial modeling skills using Excel (can perform complex functions)/Google Sheets
• Distinctive strategic problem-solving capabilities
• Experience partnering with Business Intelligence, even better if you have implemented Look