Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Breeze is a dynamic startup backed by Sequoia Capital, focused on creating a universal payment layer for seamless transactions. The Head of Finance will lead financial operations, develop strategic financial models, and optimize payment processes to support the company's growth in the fintech space.
Responsibilities
- Own Breeze’s financial operations strategy, building scalable processes that support rapid growth and operational efficiency
- Lead FP&A across the business, including forecasting, budgeting, scenario modeling, cash flow planning, and headcount planning
- Develop financial models and operational dashboards that provide real-time visibility into company performance, margins, and growth drivers
- Partner closely with leadership on strategic planning, capital allocation, pricing strategy, and long-term financial decision-making
- Build and optimize payment reconciliation workflows across banking partners, payment processors, fiat/crypto flows, and treasury operations
- Analyze transaction flows, payment operations, and revenue streams to improve efficiency, reporting accuracy, and unit economics
- Drive financial insights across product, operations, partnerships, and go-to-market teams to support data-driven decision-making
- Build scalable KPI reporting across revenue, payment volumes, customer performance, and operational metrics
- Improve financial systems, tooling, and reporting infrastructure to support scale and automation
- Support board reporting, investor materials, and strategic finance initiatives as the company grows
- Help establish operational rigor and financial discipline across a rapidly scaling organization
- Partner with external accounting firms and auditors while keeping internal focus on operational finance and business strategy
- Build and lead the finance function over time, including hiring and developing future team members
Skills
- 10+ years of experience across strategic finance, FP&A, operational finance, or fintech finance leadership roles
- Strong experience operating within high-growth fintech, payments, infrastructure, or transaction-heavy businesses
- Deep understanding of payment operations, reconciliations, money movement, and financial workflows
- Proven ability to build financial models, forecasting frameworks, and operational reporting systems from scratch
- Experience partnering directly with founders, executive teams, or boards on strategic financial decision-making
- Strong analytical and systems-thinking mindset with the ability to translate complex data into actionable business insights
- Experience building scalable financial processes in startup or hypergrowth environments
- Comfortable operating hands-on in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Strong communication and cross-functional partnership skills
- Experience leading finance operations at a startup or being a senior strategic finance leader reporting directly to a CFO or CEO
- Experience with crypto, stablecoins, payments infrastructure, or treasury operations is a strong plus
- CPA or traditional accounting background is not required — operational and strategic finance expertise is prioritized
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