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Clara is the fastest-growing B2B fintech for spend management in Latin America, serving over 20,000 large and growing businesses with corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and a powerful B2B platform. The company is backed by top regional and global investors including Monashees, Kaszek, Canary, Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, and others.
You will join the finance team as a Strategic Finance Expert, playing a key role in developing and executing business and financial strategy alongside high-impact cross-functional initiatives. This role offers accelerated professional growth, regular exposure to Clara's leadership team, and the opportunity to make an impact on B2B financial services in Latin America.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Finance: Maintain Clara's consolidated corporate finance model, including monthly forecasts, financial KPIs, balance sheet, and cash flow projections. Drive financial and operational efficiencies by improving processes and ensuring accurate financial reporting and analysis. Oversee and monitor SG&A, ensuring budget alignment and driving cost efficiencies and process optimization.
New Business Initiatives: Build business cases including TAM analysis and financial projections to support new product launches and feature releases, prioritizing projects based on highest ROI. Develop reporting and dashboards to advise the finance team and executive leadership on new product performance. Conduct ad hoc financial analysis including unit economics, working capital management, cash flow forecasting, and customer acquisition efficiency models.
Business Partner Strategic Analysis: Work closely with global and local leadership teams, providing financial insights to influence strategic business decisions that improve financial performance, including internal business review and planning materials. Act as a business partner by supporting sales, growth, product, and other teams with data-driven recommendations. Establish and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the organization.
Investor Relations: Support preparation of board packs, investor updates, and associated financial reporting. Build and update data room materials for equity and debt fundraising purposes.
Clara offers a hybrid work model focused on results, with flexible vacation, competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one, annual learning budget, and a high-ownership, product-led culture.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, or a related field
- 3–4 years of experience in investment banking, venture capital, management consulting (MBB preferred), and/or data science. Experience in startups or fintech is a plus
- Active user of the latest AI tools, building custom workflows, dashboards, and applications for complex financial analysis
- Ability to build scalable, efficient, and intuitive financial models in Excel with ease
- Highly results-driven with strong organizational skills, collaborative mindset, and exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to work independently, take initiative, and manage multiple time-sensitive priorities simultaneously
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience preparing materials and analysis for executive-level audiences
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish or Portuguese (required)
