Extend - Senior Manager, Finance Analytics

• Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management • Own the financial forecast methodology, the process, and the output. Own the driver-based models behind Extend's key financials, top-line forecast (merchant GMV, attach rates, etc.), revenue, cash balances, and margin across our product lines. Define the assumptions governance and variance-review standards that make every forecast defensible. • Own the financial forecast methodology, the process, and the output. • Own the annual operating plan and long-range plan. Lead the annual budgeting cycle and the 3–5 year financial model, linking growth ambitions to cash and capital needs, and partner with Accounting so the plan reconciles with reported results. • Own the annual operating plan and long-range plan. • Run the performance-management cadence. Track KPIs and OKRs against plan, diagnose variances down to merchant, product, and segment level, and deliver forward-looking insights. • Run the performance-management cadence. • Strategic Finance & Decision Support • Own the financial strategy conversation with senior leadership. Be the CFO's and leadership team's analytical thought partner. Communicate the business performance on a regular basis and provide valuable insights for strategic decisions. • Own the financial strategy conversation with senior leadership. • Turn reporting into a decision engine. Own the end to end P&L modeling and performance reporting, help drive business decisions and changes based on analytical insights from day to day reporting. • Turn reporting into a decision engine. • Put the entire business operation under the Unit Economics framework. Build and maintain the unit-economics framework (true contribution margin at the contract level) and embed it in pricing, merchant deal reviews, and product investment decisions. • Put the entire business operation under the Unit Economics framework. • Evaluate strategic initiatives and capital allocation. Build ROI and scenario/sensitivity models for new products, markets, merchant partnerships, and major investments; support fundraising, insurer/reinsurance partner economics, and M&A or corporate-development analysis as needed. • Evaluate strategic initiatives and capital allocation. • Drive resource and headcount planning. Partner with People and department leaders on workforce and capacity plans, and track budget-vs-actual on major initiatives to flag where to reallocate. • Drive resource and headcount planning. • Leadership & Team Development • Drive cross-functional collaboration. Serve as the primary finance partner to Sales, Growth, Operations, Risk, Accounting, and others, representing Finance in key forums, aligning teams on shared assumptions and priorities, and turning financial insights into action across the business. • Drive cross-functional collaboration. • Raise the floor for the whole team. Drive AI-native ways of working so the function produces more, faster, at a higher standard. You'll have latitude to experiment and the expectation that you will. • Raise the floor for the whole team.