Job Description
We’re looking for an experienced Director of Strategic Finance to help lead FP&A strategy, support capital planning, and partner with executives across Product, Revenue, Operations, and Engineering as Alpaca scales globally. In this role, you will own forecasting, strategic planning, revenue analytics, and long-term financial modelling. You’ll play a critical part in shaping Alpaca’s future—from product monetization strategies to international expansion and go-to-market optimization. This person will sit at the intersection of finance, strategy, and execution, serving as a key thought partner to the CFO and leadership team.
Own the FP&A cadence, including financial forecasting, long-range planning, budget cycles, and variance analysis. Partner with Product and Revenue teams to model and evaluate pricing, monetization strategy, and new product economics. Develop scalable frameworks to evaluate new revenue streams, partner tiers, margin efficiency, and customer contribution economics. Build and maintain dashboards and forecasting models that support executive decisions. Work closely with Accounting and FinOps to ensure accurate reporting, operational discipline, and business model visibility. Lead performance tracking: NRR, take rate trends, margin profiles, CAC payback, LTV, product-level P&L. Serve as a key strategist in global expansion financial frameworks, including cost modelling, entity ramp, and regulatory capital assumptions. Help build scalable planning processes, systems, and automation to support growth.
About Alpaca
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.