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Senior Strategic Finance Manager

Scotch - Denver, CO, United States - In-office - posted 2026-09-24

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Salary: USD 165,000 - 185,000 / annual

Scotch is building a next-generation operating system for beverage alcohol retailers, combining POS, payments, back office, and e-commerce into a unified platform. The company is modernizing the $1.6T beverage alcohol market by helping retailers run more efficiently through streamlined payments, inventory management, reporting, and operations. Founded by alumni from Skupos (acquired 2023) and Drizly (acquired by Uber), Scotch has raised $28M from top-tier investors including VMG Partners, First Round, and Lerer Hippeau. The company closed a $20M Series A in 2026 off 500%+ YoY growth and $1B+ in processed payment volume. As Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy, you will drive the forecasting, budgeting, and reporting processes while building the data infrastructure and decision frameworks needed to deliver best-in-class financial insights. This role requires comfort operating in a fast-paced environment and ownership of strategic workstreams with significant ambiguity, visibility, and business impact. Key responsibilities include: - Own the payments revenue and cost model at the driver level, including seasonality, processing volume, take rate, interchange, scheme and processor fees, residuals, and chargebacks - Build and own the finance data layer including models, definitions, and pipelines connecting systems into one planning-grade source of truth - Build cost visibility and control across hardware, suppliers, and capital partners - Evolve scenario planning past bear/base/bull so variable inputs flex independently and trace to P&L and cash impact, surfacing opportunities and risks before they land - Partner closely with business leaders, serving as their financial partner for the analysis and evaluation of strategic projects and capital allocation - Establish frameworks to measure the efficiency and ROI of investments across the business - Deliver analysis of financial results, quantitative and qualitative, ensuring variances to plan and business drivers are understood and highlighted - Use AI and automation tools to improve the speed, quality, and scalability of financial analysis Qualifications & Requirements: - 5+ years in strategic finance or FP&A, with 2+ years inside a high-growth technology business - Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to establish strong cross-functional working relationships - Experience with payments or transaction-based revenue, including processing economics, fee structures, and take rates - Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills, comfort with large data sets, and experience building integrated models from scratch - Skilled in distilling complex analyses into structured outputs for a cross-functional audience - Self-starter mentality and strong sense of ownership and follow-through

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