Job Description
As Marqeta ’s Strategic Finance Senior Manager you will join Marqeta 's FP&A team. This role sits at the center of the most consequential financial questions the company is asking — cross-functional strategic initiatives, long-range planning, resource allocation, investment trade-offs, and product profitability — and partners directly with FP&A leadership to answer them. This is a Strategic Finance role in the truest sense. The work isn't structured around the close calendar — that's the planning team's mandate. You'll certainly have recurring cadences: board-meeting analysis, leadership reviews, planning cycles. But most of your week looks like working through a portfolio of strategic projects that shape real decisions. One week you might be modeling marketing LTV to test whether a proposed budget increase actually pencils out. Next, you're partnering with the credit team on a build-versus-partner analysis for a new product. The week after, you're stress-testing a long-range scenario for an upcoming board meeting. Some projects span months; others resolve in a few days. The throughline is that good financial thinking shapes the decision. You'll also work closely with the VP, FP&A as a trusted partner — running projects independently, representing FP&A in rooms when needed, and absorbing scope as the function grows. This is a player-coach role from day one: while it starts as an individual contributor, you'll set the bar for analytical quality across the broader team, mentor analysts informally, and grow into formal people management as the team scales. You'll partner directly with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations leadership — embedded enough to understand what each team is actually trying to do, financial enough to translate that into models and recommendations, and senior enough to push back when the numbers don't support the narrative. The work spans the full P&L: topline modeling (revenue, gross profit, unit economics) and operating expense (headcount,
