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Paddle is a Merchant of Record platform that simplifies payment infrastructure for digital product companies, serving over 6,000 software sellers across 245 territories. The company is backed by major investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North.
As a Senior FP&A Analyst reporting to the Director of FP&A, you will bridge financial insight and commercial execution at a critical growth inflection point. You'll partner with business leaders across GTM, Operations, and Product to translate Paddle's transaction-based business model into strategic recommendations that drive profitable growth and investment efficiency.
Key responsibilities include:
**Commercial Finance & Business Partnering:**
- Build financial partnerships with key stakeholders, becoming a trusted advisor on resource allocation, commercial strategy, and investment optimization
- Drive insights from core metrics (GMV, take rate, CAC, LTV, NRR, churn) into actionable recommendations
- Support business case development for strategic initiatives including pricing strategy, market/product expansion, and new launches
- Partner with FP&A and Finance leadership on board-level reporting and strategic narratives
**Forecasting & Analysis:**
- Evolve Paddle's planning models to bridge financial targets with operational execution
- Build management reporting and dashboards that translate complex finance insights into decision-oriented outputs
- Develop deep expertise in transaction-based revenue models across customer segments, geographies, and products
- Identify opportunities to optimize unit economics and capital efficiency
**Team Development:**
- Contribute to KPI framework evolution and build commercial fluency across the team
- Help establish a high-performing FP&A culture emphasizing clarity, ownership, and collaboration
- Champion data-driven decision-making in cross-functional projects
Paddle offers a digital-first, remote-friendly culture with unlimited holidays, 4 months paid family leave, and annual learning funds. The company emphasizes transparency, collaboration, and diversity.
**Requirements:**
- Commercially astute and strategically minded; ability to connect financial data to business outcomes and influence commercial strategy
- Exceptional business partner with strong stakeholder management skills; ability to translate complex financial concepts into compelling narratives for non-finance audiences
- Technical proficiency in FP&A fundamentals including financial modeling, forecasting, and scenario planning; ideally with SaaS, payments, or transaction-based business model experience
- Comfortable navigating complexity and ambiguity in fast-paced scale-up environments; experience with data quality challenges and evolving tooling (Pigment re-implementation underway)
- Detail-oriented with strong executive presence; ability to balance precision with confident C-level communication
- Demonstrated ability to mentor others and build capability across teams
- Track record of consistent, high-standard execution and building long-term trust
