Lead Financial Analyst - Commercial

Finance’s mission is to help support Shopify’s growth over the long-term and ensure we achieve our objective of making commerce better for everyone. We are trusted advisors and growth partners to the business, always striving to learn, provide insights, solve complex problems and contribute positive impact. Finance plays an important role at the strategic planning table and helps influence the future direction of Shopify.

We’re currently looking for a tech-savvy Financial Analyst Lead to join our Commercial Finance group where you’ll support the teams that are responsible for acquiring and launching Shopify’s largest merchants, and provide go-to-market strategies to make them successful.

You'll be doing things like:

• Serving as a player-coach to a small team and numerous peers
• Owning ongoing model development and business casing to evaluate growth initiatives, product launches, and overall business line performance
• Training team members on AI and other tools while promoting their adoption and benefits to enhance overall efficiency
• Partnering with data science, business operations, commercial and product teams, and Product Line leadership to analyze business drivers, identify areas of opportunity and risk, drive improvements to our unit economics, and strengthen LTV
• Preparing quarterly P&L 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 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