Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Who We Are: 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 recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. 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. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet . 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. 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. Our Team Members: 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! 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. Your Role: 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. Things You Get To Do: Forecasting and Budgeting: Maintain complex forecasting models and oversee the quarterly/annual budgeting process, incorporating key metrics from API integrations, trading activities, and various other economic indicators. Financial Modelling: 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. Financial Closing: Assist with and ultimately lead the monthly/quarterly financial closing processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness and delivering key insights to management. Reporting: Prepare monthly/quarterly reports for internal management updates, team presentations, and external stakeholders including investor communications, quarterly board meetings, marketing or fundraising materials, etc. Variance Analysis: Perform variance analysis on financials and key business metrics, using internal models and data dashboards to track and analyze performance. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams on budgeting, resource allocation, and hiring processes. Ad-Hoc Projects: Handle ad-hoc requests, projects, and special analyses, such as product profitability assessments or risk evaluations. Who You Are (Must-Haves): Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. 5–8 years of experience in Finance, FPA, or Strategic Finance , ideally in fintech, brokerage, payments, or SaaS. Strong understanding of financial modeling, forecasting, and key SaaS/fintech metrics (ARR, CAC/LTV, gross margin, net revenue retention). Prior experience in a growth-stage, ventu ... (truncated, view full listing at source)