Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves, and they are seeking a Corporate/Opex Finance Manager to own critical aspects of operating expense and headcount planning. In this role, you will partner with functional leaders, manage forecasting, and contribute to senior leadership materials while ensuring efficient financial operations.
Responsibilities
- Own opex forecasting and management for your function end-to-end. Build and maintain the monthly forecast for your area (e.g., Engineering opex, G&A opex), understand every driver of spend — headcount, vendor contracts, T&E, discretionary spend — and know the story behind variances before anyone has to ask
- Be the trusted finance partner to a functional leader. Sit in their planning meetings, understand their priorities, and help them structure decisions about headcount, vendor spend, and cost trade-offs. Bring solutions and options, not just numbers
- Own your workstream's reporting. Build and improve the model templates and reporting flows that keep your business partner and FP&A leadership current, help shape the dashboards and systems as our BI tooling matures, and flag every manual step worth automating
- Support the broader planning cycle. Own your portion of the annual operating plan and long-range plan, and run the monthly forecast cycle for your area, tying it back into the company-wide numbers Corporate FP&A owns
- Apply GAAP fluency within your scope. Model capitalized expenses correctly for your area, and help your business partners understand how their spend is treated — explaining amortization, capitalization, and cash versus accrual accounting in terms that make sense to them. Partner credibly with Accounting on the technical questions that come up in your workstream
- Contribute to senior leadership materials. Routinely build content that feeds board decks, exec reviews, and leadership updates — and present your own analysis directly in some forums
- Experiment with AI to make your workstream faster. Use AI tools to speed up modeling, reporting, and analysis, and bring ideas back to the broader team on what's actually working
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, Math, or similar)
- Minimum 8 years of progressive FP&A experience, ideally including time at a scaled operating or public company
- You've run a forecast, a process, or a cost center on your own — not just contributed pieces of it — and you're comfortable being the person accountable for the numbers
- You understand capitalized expenses well enough to model them correctly, and you can explain amortization, capitalization, and cash versus accrual accounting to a non-finance business partner in simple terms
- You've built or maintained dashboards and model templates before, and your first reaction to a repetitive manual task is to look for a way to automate it
- You've worked directly with a functional leader before, you ask good questions, and you're trusted because you're useful — not because you're agreeable
- You can walk a VP or a room of senior leaders through your analysis without a translator, and you write and speak in plain, direct language
- Payments, fintech, or scaled SaaS experience
- Public-company experience, including exposure to board or investor-facing materials
- Hands-on experience with a BI/analytics platform (e.g., Sigma, Looker, Tableau)
- Experience owning headcount or vendor-spend forecasting for a functional client group
- Hands-on experience building AI-powered workflows, tools, or automations for finance work
Benefits
- Multiple health insurance options
- Flexible time off – take what you need
- Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions
- Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
- Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice
- Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
- Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
- Through Flex First, the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive
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