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Salary: USD 220,000 - 250,000 / annual
Mesh is a fintech infrastructure company enabling consumers to pay and be paid with tokenized assets, backed by leading investors including SBI, Paradigm, Dragonfly, and PayPal Ventures.
You will own Mesh's financial operations and operating agenda as Director of Strategic Finance & Operations. This is a hands-on role where you drive the company's financial strategy, operating cadence, and data-backed decision-making across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the annual budget and monthly forecast across ten departments, running quarterly budget review cycles
- Build and maintain a driver-based operating model tracking payment volume, take rates, contract minimums, subsidies, headcount, and vendor spend
- Produce quarterly board financials and monthly management packs covering revenue, gross margin, spend vs. budget, burn, runway, and cash position
- Own monthly P&L flux reviews and coordinate financial statement packages with the accounting team
- Run the business review (monthly) and quarterly OKR reviews in coordination with BizOps, tracking commitments and flagging misses with data
- Establish and maintain company metric definitions for payments metrics, ensuring all leaders report from the same numbers
- Perform hands-on data analysis using Claude and AI tools, pulling and modeling data directly
- Lead the financial workstream on acquisitions: models, valuation, synergy cases, due diligence, and integration planning
- Conduct capital allocation analysis for new products, corridors, and incentives; build vs. buy decisions
- Plan capital for licensed entities, projecting net worth and EU capital headroom
- Approve pricing exceptions outside agreed deal guardrails
- Build sales capacity and quota models with the CRO as part of budget planning
- Support org design and cross-functional programs for the CFO and CEO
- Lead the Manager of FinOps, RevOps & Finance Systems
- Confirm budget availability on purchase orders above approval thresholds
Metrics You'll Own:
Volume metrics (total payment volume by product, active transacting accounts, volume per account, customer concentration), monetization (net revenue, take rate, usage against minimums, revenue per account), unit economics (cost per transaction, subsidies, net take rate, contribution margin), retention (gross/net revenue retention by cohort, logo churn, silent churn), growth (new logos, time to go-live, ramp to committed volume, pipeline coverage, win rate, committed ARR), and efficiency/cash metrics (CAC payback, burn multiple, DSO, bad debt).
Requirements:
- 8+ years combining strategy consulting (Big Four strategy practice or similar), investment banking, private equity, or FP&A
- At least 2–4 years operating in-house at a fintech, payments, or high-growth company
- Demonstrated experience running an end-to-end budget process with department leaders
- Owned board-level financial reporting
- Strong modeling skills, including M&A or investment models
- Built and ran an operating cadence or OKR process across functions
- Hands-on with data and AI tools (Claude and similar) to pull, model, analyze data, and build reporting independently
- Ability to challenge senior leaders with data while maintaining relationships
Nice to Have:
- Crypto experience
- Capital planning for regulated entities
- Experience managing systems or data builders
