Senior Manager, Strategic Finance, Commerce Go-to-Market

Block (Square)
San Francisco, CA
On-site

Who this role is best for

Candidates with strategic finance experience and AI fluency in a distributed commerce environment will find this leadership role in a dynamic, cross-functional team.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8+ years of strategic finance experience and a track record in leading investment analysis for commercial teams
    — “8+ years of relevant experience in strategic finance, financial planning and analysis, sales or go-to-market finance”
  • Professionals who have led financial planning and driven analysis in transaction-based businesses
    — “Experience in payments, financial technology, merchant services, marketplaces, commerce”
  • Individuals with strong modeling skills and who have built driver-based forecasts for revenue and expenses
    — “Experience leading financial planning and performance analysis, with strong modeling skills”

Things to consider

  • The role requires managing a team and being directly involved in high-impact analyses
    — “Lead and develop finance team members while remaining directly involved”
  • Remote work is possible, but the role is based in the Bay Area with potential for in-person collaboration
    — “No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to connect operational metrics with financial outcomes in your resume and interview responses
    — “Build driver-based forecasts that connect pipeline, conversion, sales capacity”
  • Demonstrate experience in evaluating investments with ROI frameworks and scenario analysis
    — “Evaluate investments ... using business cases, scenario analysis, and return-on-investment frameworks”
  • Showcase your AI fluency with examples of process automation or insight generation in your application materials
    — “AI-fluency including analysis, insight generation, process automation and improvement”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Leading financial planning and performance analysis for a global organization
  • Building driver-based forecasts for financial outcomes
Typical background
8+ years of experience in strategic finance, financial planning and analysis, sales or go-to-market finance, investment banking, consulting, or a related analytical role

Skills & requirements

Required

Financial ModelingInvestment AnalysisFinancial Planning And AnalysisStrategic FinanceFinancial ForecastingPerformance Management

Preferred

Ai-fluencyPayments Industry Experience

Stack & domain

Financial PlanningForecastingInvestment AnalysisModelingSQLPythonLeadershipCoachingTeam DevelopmentFinanceSalesMarketingPartnershipsRevenue OperationsProductData

About the role

Original posting from Block (Square)

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50+ million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.

The Role

The Go-To-Market Strategic Finance team partners with leaders across Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Revenue Operations, Product, and Data to shape how we invest in growth. As Senior Finance Manager, Commerce Go-to-Market, you will partner with the Global Head of Revenue for Cash App, Afterpay, and Clearpay. You will lead financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and investment analysis for the organization. 

You Will

Serve as the primary finance partner to Commerce go-to-market leaders, supporting day-to-day decisions and long-term strategy.

Lead annual planning, quarterly forecasting, and ongoing performance management across revenue, gross profit, headcount, operating expenses, and key commercial metrics.

Build driver-based forecasts that connect pipeline, conversion, sales capacity, productivity, pricing, product adoption, transaction activity, and retention to financial outcomes.

Evaluate investments across Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, channels, and customer segments using business cases, scenario analysis, and return-on-investment frameworks.

Prepare concise, decision-ready materials for senior leaders and company planning processes.

Lead and develop finance team members while remaining directly involved in the team’s highest-impact analyses and deliverables.

You Have

8+ years of relevant experience in strategic finance, financial planning and analysis, sales or go-to-market finance, investment banking, consulting, or a related analytical role.

Experience partnering with Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Revenue Operations, or another commercial organization.

Experience leading financial planning and performance analysis, with strong modeling skills across forecasting, resource allocation, scenario analysis, and investment returns.

Strong analytical ability, experience working with complex models, large datasets, and analysis tools (SQL, Python)

AI-fluency including analysis, insight generation, process automation and improvement.

Experience in payments, financial technology, merchant services, marketplaces, commerce, or another transaction-based business is helpful.

2+ years of people-management experience, including coaching and developing finance professionals.

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

Zone A:$163,600—$245,400 USDZone B: $152,200—$228,200 USDZone C:$144,000—$216,000 USDZone D:$135,800—$203,600 USDApplication Guidelines

Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.

Use of AI in Our Hiring Process

We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws. 

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Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. Check out our other benefits at Block.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.

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