Strategic Finance

ABOUT US

Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.

Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.

Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

Speak's Finance team is AI-first, fast, comprehensive, data driven, and expected to punch well above its weight. The Senior Finance Analyst role will increase the team's throughput on the analytical work that actually moves decisions: building and owning core models, running planning cycles, and partnering with functional leaders to translate strategy into measurable financial plans.

This is not a reporting-and-maintenance role. The ideal candidate brings genuine analytical horsepower, operates with a high degree of independence, and has the judgment to know when to go deep and when to move fast. They will be one of the primary sources of financial truth for the business.

The role will report to the Head of Finance and will partner across all areas of the business to drive our highest-priority planning workstreams in 2026.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Be the trusted enterprise GTM cross-functional partner — own standing finance cadences with global enterprise GTM team; provide realtime insights and hold GTM leadership accountable to financial decision making.

• Own enterprise GTM financial modeling and BvAs end-to-end — build and maintain the GTM forecast, ARR model, and GTM P&L, partnering closely with GTM Leadership and RevOps.

• Own enterprise quote capacity and quota attainment modeling end-to-end - build and maintain the capacity planning model, attainment model, and commissions calculations, partnering closely with GTM Leadership and RevOps.

• Be the trusted Talent and People cross-functional partner — own standing finance cadences with Talent and People teams to drive headcount, bands, and people costs decision-making.

• Drive headcount and OPEX planning — own headcount approvals and benchmarking, payroll forecasting, and vendor-level OPEX forecasting across the business.

• Partner on strategic planning — contribute to the Long Range Plan, compensation strategy, and new market investment frameworks alongside the broader Finance team.

• Build decision-support analyses — turn ambiguous business questions into structured recommendations on investments, pricing, market entry, and resource allocation.

• Be a trusted cross-functional partner — own standing finance cadences with S4B, People, and other functional partners; show up with accurate numbers and a clear point of view.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Minimum requirements

• 4-7 years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or a comparable analytical role — with prior startup or high-growth tech experience strongly preferred.

• Advanced financial modeling skills (Excel or Google Sheets): driver-based forecasting, scenario analysis, sensitivity tables, and the ability to build clean, auditable models from scratch.

• Strong AI tool enablement, able to work with frontier models and AI tools and validate the fidelity of the output.

• Direct experience supporting full planning cycles: annual operating plan, quarterly re-forecasts, and board or investor-facing materials.

• Fluency in SaaS and B2B metrics — ARR, NRR, LTV/CAC, payback period, quota capacity, and unit economics are part of your daily vocabulary.

• Strong written communication: structures analyses so non-finance stakeholders can read, review, and act on them without a translator.

• High ownership and high integrity — treats models and processes as yours to improve, not just maintain; handles confidential data with discretion.

WHY WORK AT SPEAK

Speak does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.