Job Specifications
Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!
Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.
What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!
Who we are:
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We’ve since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world.
Today we support more than 4,800 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.
With over 1,200 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.
Job Description
The Opportunity
We are looking for a driven and experienced Finance/FP&A Manager to join our team to be part of Flywire’s incredible growth story. We need someone with strong technical and analytical skills who can work collaboratively with other teams, including Financial Planning & Analysis, Accounting, and Treasury. This position will be part of the Corporate FP&A team reporting into the head of Business Unit FP&A. They will be responsible for financial planning, analysis, and reporting, and will work closely with senior leadership to ensure accurate and timely reporting of financial performance.
What we are looking for:
Strong business and financial acumen, excellent analytical and strategic planning skills, and the ability to communicate complex financial information in a clear answer concise way
Ability to manage and understand business and operational metrics and KPIs, and establish linkage to financial and strategic outcomes
Background in predictive modeling of complex metrics and financials, balancing the science and art of forecasting, and driving actionable results through foresight and insights from forecasting data
Strong project management skills and demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across a breadth of stakeholders
Collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities
Responsibilities
Develop, maintain, and analyze financial models for forecasting, budgeting, and reporting. Key contributor to long range planning, annual budgets and regular financial forecasts, ensuring they accurately reflect the company's strategic goals
Analyze financial data and performance, identifying trends and making recommendations to improve financial performance. Support business case modeling and deep dive analysis on strategic initiatives
Responsible for supporting global stakeholder departments, working across complex data sets across different geographies.
Ability to partner cross-functionally within finance, analytics, product, sales and marketing including ROI analysis, understanding financial goals, product roadmaps and sales pipeline.
Ability to identify key business levers, establish cause & effect, perform analyses, and communicate key findings to various stakeholders to facilitate data driven decision-making
Discover new opportunities to grow and optimize the business through analytics, financial modeling, and business case development
Work independently in a cross functional matrix with teams like finance, marketing, product, and senior executives to review and recommend process improvements in support of various initiatives
Prepare regular and ad hoc financial reports for senior management, providing clear insights into the company's financial status and performance
Work closely with other senior leaders to ensure financial strategies align with company goals, and communicate financial information effectively to stakeholders
Coordinate closely with Investor Relations, Controllership and other finance functions to manage the monthly close and conduct monthly & quarterly results analysis of business performance
Qualifications
Here's what we are looking for:
Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting or related field is required; MBA and CPA strongly desired
5+ years of finance experience with management experience inclusive of finance leadership roles and finance expertise
Outstanding leadership, communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills. Proven as an experienced, confident and mature manager and business partner
Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and execute across complex functional requir