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, delivering high-stakes, high-value payments across the global education, healthcare, travel and B2B industries.
Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 4,000+ global clients in more than 140 currencies across 240 countries and territories around the world. And, we’re just getting started!
With over 1,300+ 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.
The Opportunity:
We are looking for a dynamic senior FPA leader to join our team to be part of Flywire’s incredible growth story. This is a highly visible and impactful leadership role, reporting directly to the VP of FP&A, with exposure to the entire executive team and the board of directors. It is an opportunity to lead a critical and growing function, that will shape and influence business strategy, build strong financial rigor to execute on our commitments and build towards long term success. This role will help build and lead the FP&A team having a unique end-to-end influence, impact and visibility across the enterprise.
What we are looking for:
- Proven leadership with 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
- Proven successful track record of leading Finance and FP&A functions at senior levels in organizations where Finance has a strong seat at the table.
- Proven ability to influence at the C level and partnering and collaborating across senior leaders across multiple functional areas
- Experience in building FPA teams, processes, systems and planning from the ground up
- Passion for people development and building a strong succession pipeline for the future
- Ability to be an effective coach and have challenging employee conversations when necessary
- Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor.
- 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
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence successfully within a highly matrixed organization
- 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:
- End to end financial planning, budgeting, and analysis efforts.
- This highly visible role will have significant exposure with CEO, COO, CFO, and executive team.
- Oversee the creation of long range plan, 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
- Responsible for leading full P&L forecasting and analysis across Flywire’s businesses based on a deep understanding of external and internal business trends and our economic financial model.
- Prepare regular and ad hoc financial reports for senior management, providing clear insights into the company's financial status and performance. Lead ad hoc business analysis and support the ongoing management of key initiatives and investments
- Work closely with other senior leaders to ensure financial strategies align with company goals, and communicate financial information effectively to stakeholders
- Partner with Investor Relations for quarterly earnings call and key investor conferences
- Drive improvement in Budget and forecasting processes, in partnership with Regions and Functions
- Drive the transformation agenda and focus on continuous improvement in efficiency through automation, optimization, process improvement, and applying best-in-class planning and forecast tools and methodologies.
- Coordinate closely with Controllership and other finance functions to manage the monthly close and conduct monthly & quarterly results analysis of business performance
- Oversee a high performing team, fostering a positive and productive work environment
- Drives sound decision-making through effective forecasting, reporting, and analysis of results and business drivers
- Expert at structuring, managing, and communicating complex analysis, working across functions and with multiple stakeholders
- Drives an efficient and effective process for developing financial plans and analysis that links to the strategic objectives
We're looking for:
- Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting or related field is required; MBA and CPA strongly desired
- 10+ 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
- Seasoned leader with a track record of leading and developing teams of Finance professionals who have earned and maintained Finance’s “seat at the table” in their respective organizations
