Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p> <p>Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our <a href="https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/">recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.</p> <p>Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 million brokerage accounts.</p> <p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.</p> <p>Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p> <p>We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!<br><br>We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.</p></div><p><strong>Your Role: </strong></p> <p>Our finance team at Alpaca is seeking an FPA Manager to lead financial planning, analysis, and reporting for our fast-growing and innovative API-driven trading brokerage. In this role, you'll manage budgeting, forecasting, and performance insights to drive strategic decisions, collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced fintech environment. Reporting to the Finance Director, you'll support a range of key processes including financial forecasting and budgeting, monthly/quarterly closes, data analysis and growth modeling, and investor communications.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Things You Get To Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Forecasting and Budgeting:</strong> Maintain complex forecasting models and oversee the quarterly/annual budgeting process, incorporating key metrics from API integrations, trading activities, and various other economic indicators.</li> <li><strong>Financial Modelling:</strong> Build and update financial models to support scenario planning, initiative assessments, cash flow forecasting, and investment evaluations to support a range of forecasting and strategic planning for the company.</li> <li><strong>Financial Closing:</strong> Assist with and ultimately lead the monthly/quarterly financial closing processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness and delivering key insights to management.</li> <li><strong>Reporting:</strong> Prepare monthly/quarterly reports for internal management updates, team presentations, and external stakeholders including investor communications, quarterly board meetings, marketing or fundraising materials, etc.</li> <li><strong>Variance Analysis:</strong> Perform variance analysis on financials and key business metrics, using internal models and data dashboards to track and analyze performance.</li> <li><strong>Cross-Functional Collaboration:</strong> Collaborate with cross-functional teams on budgeting, resource allocation, and hiring processes.</li> <li><strong>Ad-Hoc Projects:</strong> Handle ... (truncated, view full listing at source)