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Salary: USD 220,000 - 280,000 / annual
Arena Club is a digital marketplace for collectibles, founded by Derek Jeter and Brian Lee. The platform enables collectors to buy, sell, grade, authenticate, and showcase collectibles in a personalized online environment. The company is expanding across multiple categories with features including grading and authentication, vaulting, and digital pack openings.
As VP of Financial Planning & Analysis, you will own the complete financial planning function for this fast-growing platform. You'll build and maintain the long-range plan, annual budget, rolling forecast, and unit economics that drive business decisions. Your core responsibility is defining how the company measures and tracks GMV, take rate, and contribution margin across all business segments (grading, vaulting, repacks, and the marketplace).
Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with the CFO on board decks, investor updates, KPI reporting, and establishing a single source of truth for financial data
- Building and owning the annual budget, quarterly re-forecast, and 3–5 year long-range plan as a driver-based model built bottom-up from platform metrics: buyer and seller acquisition, activation, repeat rate, order frequency, AOV, GMV, and take rate
- Owning company-wide headcount and workforce planning, including the model, approval process, and execution discipline
- Serving as the finance partner to Product, Engineering, Operations, Marketing, and Category leaders; owning their budgets and holding them accountable to plan
- Building business cases for growth expansion and operational scaling opportunities
- Building, hiring, and mentoring the FP&A and strategic finance team
- Owning the finance systems roadmap: planning tool selection and implementation, the BI layer, and the data pipeline from transactional systems into the model; partnering with Accounting on close
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related field
- 12-15+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, or consulting, including 4+ years leading and building a team
- Direct experience in a marketplace, e-commerce, or consumer platform business, with GMV and contribution margin as primary owned metrics
- Demonstrated ownership of a company-level operating model
- Fluency with the physical-goods cost stack: logistics, fulfillment, inventory or consignment economics, payments, and fraud
- Ability to present credibly to a board and debug a model with an analyst
- Comfort working in a high-growth, AI-forward environment
