Lead Financial Analyst

We’re currently looking for a Lead Financial Analyst to join our Platform + Commercial Finance team, with a focus on managing the PnL for products such as the Shopify App Store, Themes, and Domains. This role will require planning, forecasting, partner deal assessments and financial modelling for these products, in addition to supporting ad-hoc projects as needed.

You'll be doing things like:

• Building financial models that drive business decisions
• Being a strategic partner with product leadership and providing analyses in key business measurements and areas of opportunity and risk
• Preparing quarterly PnL and operational metric forecasts
• Developing actionable management reporting, dashboards, and KPIs, and overseeing monthly variance analysis and operating reviews to track business success
• Staying updated on emerging AI technologies, and identifying opportunities to automate repetitive manual tasks using tools like SQL, Python and AI to improve FP&A workflows

What you bring to the team:

• Proven track record of driving significant impact in complex and ambiguous business situations
• Significant experience in financial modeling and strategic business planning
• Strong understanding of SQL and Python, with the ability to write complex queries, perform data extraction and manipulation, and maintain data integrity.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI, tinkering with new tools, and exploring innovative solutions, and an excellent ability to mentor and teach the same
• A growth mindset, a builder’s mentality and a proven history of effective execution
• The ability to thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous work environment and to navigate through change
• Track record of strong performance in data science, management consulting, investment banking, FP&A, or a related field
• Experience in tech, fintech or other SaaS-based business models
• Demonstrated experience transforming or automating FP&A processes