Finance, Business Operations & Strategy (Gusto FinTech)

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Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.

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About the Role:

Do you want to help guide financial planning, business operations, and strategic decision making at a Forbes Cloud 100 company? Come join the Finance, BizOps & Strategy (FBOS) team at Gusto. The FBOS team provides financial, operational, and strategic support at the corporate, departmental, and product level. The team’s mission is to define and defend the business model while accelerating Gusto’s growth.

As part of the Emerging Finance team within FBOS, you’ll be the Finance, BizOps & Strategy Partner to Gusto’s developing and fast-growing FinTech businesses, including our consumer and business-facing opportunities. A core philosophy in FBOS is that we are not here to merely forecast -- that is, to try to predict an indeterminate future -- we are here to help make it happen. We roll up our sleeves as partners and pitch in with operators as needed.

About the Team:

You will drive key go-to-market operations and strategy support for Gusto’s FinTech businesses. This is a high impact, high responsibility role. You’ll be a trusted thought partner and business advisor that leads key initiatives like monthly forecast reviews, long range planning, and pricing and business model recommendations. You’ll gain experience building operations in an emerging business unit and working cross-functionally to drive alignment to move the business forward as you scale existing and launch new FinTech products.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Financial Planning & Forecasting. Support our FinTech businesses (consumer and business facing) by managing operational revenue and expense models and support strategic planning, forecasting, and resource allocation. Solutions oriented mindset is important as you partner with key members of the organization to maximize performance within the existing investment allocations.
• Management Reporting. Support key corporate reporting requirements to the Board of Directors and Executive Team, e.g. app-level OKR tracking, performance to plan, and budget vs. actual variance analysis. Clearly and concisely articulate business results, opportunities, and key decisions to senior leaders at Gusto.
• Strategic Partner. Partner with the business to drive operations and conduct key analyses and modeling to help leadership make sound and strategically aligned decisions that thoroughly weigh opportunities and risk. This includes leading forecast reviews, evaluating marketing efficiency, supporting new growth initiatives, and revamping pricing and packaging as needed. Evaluation of our third-party partnerships, including insights into margins, review of key contract terms, and strategic negotiation considerations, will also be critical to developing a sustainable and growing business.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• Experience. You have 4-6+ years of relevant work experience in corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, and/or business operations. Business and/or consumer banking experience is required, with specific experience in FinTech, neo-banking, or lending unit economics preferred. You have a degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Finance, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, etc.).
• Technical skills. You’re an expert in Excel and Google Sheets who is capable of creating insightful models and conducting quantitative analysis, paired by strong critical thinking and sound business judgment. You are willing to learn or already can deep dive into large data sets with SQL. Experience driving business processes in enterprise tools like Asana and Pigment. You are comfortable with data and analysis in Tableau, or other BI tools.
• Precision. You have sharp attention to detail with a natural feel for numbers and data, and have a high degree of accuracy in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• Discipline & Attitude. You have impressive time management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks with multiple stakeholders while hitting deadlines on time sensitive projects. You are proactive and have a positive attitude with a can-do, service-oriented mentality.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $105,000/yr to $131,000/yr in Denver & most major metro locations, and $127,000/yr to $157,000/yr for San Francisco & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas. 

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto. 

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