Hybrid Director, FP&A

at Nium

• Job title: Director, FP&A
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $164,000 - $205,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Director of FP&A at Nium, a global payments infrastructure leader, leading financial planning and analysis. Engaging with executive leadership and guiding decision-making in a complex environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the annual financial planning process, rolling forecasts, and long-range plans with clear timelines, accountability, and rigor
• Build and maintain driver-based financial forecasts grounded in operational reality, explicitly modeling seasonality, onboarding ramps, client concentration, timing lags, and variability
• Deliver timely and insightful budget vs. actuals analysis, translating financial variances into underlying operational and commercial drivers
• Provide client- and cohort-level financial insight, including analysis of top clients, pipeline dynamics, onboarding progress, churn, and margin performance
• Proactively identify risks, trade-offs, and emerging issues, communicating decision points early rather than explaining outcomes after the fact
• Partner closely with Revenue Operations, Solutions Engineering, Strategic Finance, and Treasury to ensure financial narratives align with commercial and operational reality
• Develop financial models and conduct scenario analysis to evaluate growth initiatives, investments, and strategic decisions
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team, raising the standard for analytical thinking, judgment, and business understanding
• Prepare and support financial materials for executive leadership, the Board, and investors, including data room support and diligence requests
• Implement and scale next-generation FP&A systems and dashboards that integrate financial and operational data, reducing reliance on spreadsheet-centric workflows

Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, or related roles
• Experience in fintech, payments, or other transaction-based technology businesses
• Proven ownership of complex, end-to-end planning and forecasting processes in high-growth, global environments
• Demonstrated ability to build driver-based financial models that reflect how the business actually behaves, not simplistic averages
• Strong judgment and intellectual curiosity, with a track record of constructively challenging assumptions and anticipating leadership questions
• Ability to clearly communicate financial insights and implications to executive, Board, and investor audiences
• High proficiency in Excel and modern financial planning and analytics tools
• Ability to manage ambiguity, large data sets, and multiple concurrent priorities with discipline and clarity

Benefits

• We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program
• Generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down
• Flexible hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office)
• Role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend
• Company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites