Finance and Strategy Manager

EMPOWER OVERVIEW

Empower is a high-growth financial technology company on a mission to solve access to affordable credit for everyday Americans. We dream up and launch one-of-a-kind features that help our members get money instantly whenever they need it, save for the future, and rewrite their financial story. Our members see Empower Cash Advance as a life-saver, Empower Automatic Savings as a game-changer, and the new Empower Thrive line of credit (currently in beta, launching soon) as a lifeline to low-cost borrowing and the only practical path to building credit.

Empower is ranked #55 on the 2022 Inc 5000 list. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital and have been recognized in Apple’s list of "New Apps We Love," Time’s "Best Apps of the Year So Far,” and Real Simple’s Smart Money Awards.

Want to make a difference in someone’s financial journey? Let’s go.

WHAT EMPOWER OFFERS

Competitive salary

Generous equity package

Full healthcare benefits

Technology expense reimbursement

Work from anywhere

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Finance and Strategy Manager will help build out Empower’s analytical capabilities, business planning, and share strategic recommendations and data-based insights for products and programs critical to Empower’s growth, customer acquisition, and customer retention. You will partner closely with our executive leadership team and board to develop and present insights. Your insights will build the foundation for Empower’s scaled success as we bring new products to market and scale programs impactful to Empower’s core business.

Responsibilities

• Build analytical tools: Surface data-based insights through dashboards, automated reporting, and presentations that give both our internal stakeholders information critical to make decisions. Drive improvements to our data analysis infrastructure and processes. 

• Forecast business: Develop and maintain Empower’s long term financial plan and incorporate various strategic initiatives.

• Set strategic priorities: Conduct analyses that establish the strategic priorities for Empower.

• Represent finance in cross-functional teams: Partner with Credit and Product teams to build business cases, refine product pricing, and develop incentive structures for our new products.

• Help drive product positioning: Leverage customer data to inform product positioning and optimize our scaling efforts. Lead complex analyses on our products, develop case studies, and design experiments to improve product performance.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives: Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues in Product, Data Science, Marketing, and Engineering.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2+ years work experience in strategic finance, management consulting and/or investment banking

• Strong analytical abilities and are comfortable defining and measuring goals consistently

• Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution based on customer needs

• A get-it-done mindset; you’re resourceful and happy to be hands on and in the weeds

• A interest in addressing complicated and impactful product & business problems

• Experience delivering complex, cross-functional product initiatives 

• Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, and logical structuring abilities

• Comfort with ambiguity; the ability to independently lay out and test clear hypotheses, and solve problems without well-defined direction

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills