Director, Strategic Finance - SoFi Checking & Savings and Credit Card

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The role:

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Finance Business Partner to join our growing Strategic Finance team. Strategic Finance shapes SoFi’s capital allocation strategy by assessing investment opportunities, framing key trade-offs, and prioritizing resources against the company’s most important growth objectives. As a key business partner, you will provide financial leadership and strategic insights to two of SoFi's most critical and rapidly growing business lines: SoFi Checking & Savings and SoFi Credit Card. SoFi is an AI-forward organization, and you will be expected to responsibly use our suite of AI tools to build and enhance financial models, accelerate analysis, automate workflows, and improve decision-making. 

What you’ll do:

  • Own the financial strategy, multi-year plan, annual operating plan, and rolling forecasts for SoFi’s rapidly growing Checking & Savings and Credit Card businesses
  • Serve as a strategic thought partner to Business Unit leaders, translating financial and operational data into insights and recommendations that shape growth strategy and business performance
  • Build and analyze customer and product-level unit economics including LTV, CAC, payback periods, and risk-adjusted returns across cohorts, acquisition channels, products, and member segments
  • Drive disciplined capital allocation through business cases, trade-off analyses, and post-investment performance measurement 
  • Partner with Product, Marketing, Risk, Operations, Treasury, Accounting, and Data teams to evaluate new products, pricing and rewards strategies, marketing programs, partnerships, and operating initiatives
  • Lead scenario planning and sensitivity analyses to assess the impact of changes in interest rates, member behavior, credit performance, competitive dynamics, and other key business drivers
  • Develop business cases for major initiatives and establish post-investment measurement processes to evaluate realized returns, surface learnings, and improve future capital-allocation decisions
  • Synthesize complex analyses into clear, compelling recommendations and communicate business performance, risks, and opportunities to Executive Leadership
  • Identify and scale high-impact AI use cases that expand Strategic Finance’s capabilities, capacity, and analytical rigor 
  • Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing team while fostering strong cross-functional collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and mentorship within and outside of Finance

What you’ll need:

  • 12+ years of experience in Strategic Finance, Corporate Finance, FP&A, investment banking, or a related field, ideally within fintech or consumer financial services
  • Deep expertise in consumer financial-services economics, with a strong command of Credit Card unit economics and P&L dynamics
  • Demonstrated expertise analyzing unit economics, including LTV/CAC, payback periods, and risk-adjusted returns, across cohorts, channels, products, and segments
  • Expert financial modeling and scenario-analysis skills, including the ability to build driver-based models from scratch and analyze large data sets
  • Fluency with AI tools and demonstrated ability to apply them to financial modeling, analysis, workflow automation, and decision support
  • Ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations and influence senior decision-makers
  • Creative and strategic problem-solving skills, with the ability to bring structure to ambiguous business questions
  • Track record of building strong cross-functional relationships and driving decisions across Product, Marketing, Risk, Operations, and other functions
  • Advanced spreadsheet and presentation skills; experience with Google Sheets and Slides is a plus
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Previous people management experience is a plus

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location. 

 

To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!

SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.New York applicants: Notice of Employee RightsSoFi is committed to an inclusive culture. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email accommodations@sofi.com.We are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico at this time.

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