paddle - Lead Finance Business Partner

• Commercial Finance & Business Partnering • Build financial partnerships with key stakeholders in key functions (e.g. Product, GTM, Operations), becoming a trusted advisor to senior leaders on resource allocation, commercial strategy and investment optimisation for Marketing and Product decisions. • Drive insights from Paddle's key metrics (GMV, take rate, CAC, LTV, NRR, churn) into actionable recommendations that influence business direction. • Support business case development for strategic initiatives such as pricing strategy, market/ product expansion and or new launches. • Partner with the Senior Director of FP&A and CFO to support board-level reporting and strategic narratives. • Forecasting & Analysis • Support the evolution of Paddle’s planning models to bridge financial targets with operational execution, enabling ExCo to translate cross functional insights into faster and better-informed strategic decisions. • Build and deliver management reporting and dashboards that cuts through complexity—ensuring finance insights are timely, focused, and decision-oriented. • Develop deep expertise in Paddle's transaction-based revenue model, bringing visibility to performance across customer segments, geographies, and products. • Identify opportunities to optimize unit economics and improve capital efficiency across the business. • Team Development • Bring fresh perspectives to our KPI framework and support the team in building commercial fluency. • Contribute to building a high-performing, high-EQ FP&A culture that values clarity, ownership, and collaboration. • Represent FP&A in cross-functional projects, championing data-driven decision-making across the organization. • We'd love to hear from you if you are: • Commercially astute and strategically minded - you can connect financial data to business outcomes, and you're energized by influencing commercial strategy, not just reporting on it. • An exceptional business partner - established in stakeholder management, you can translate complex financial concepts into simple, compelling narratives for non-finance audiences and build trusted relationships with senior leaders. • Technically strong in FP&A fundamentals - proficient in financial modeling, forecasting, and scenario planning, ideally with experience in SaaS, payments, or transaction-based business models. • Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity - you thrive in scale-up environments where you're building the plane while flying it, navigating data quality challenges and evolving tooling (we're re-implementing Pigment). • Looking to develop the way the team and Paddle operates… and develop yourself too in the process. You enjoy mentoring others and building capability across the team.