Chief Financial Officer - CFO

The role

The Chief Financial Officer will serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and executive team. You will build financial infrastructure, manage financial strategy, and oversee banking economics for a growing financial institution.

What you will do

• Serve as the company's senior financial leader and strategic partner to the CEO and executive team.
• Develop and manage Taekus' financial strategy as the company scales.
• Manage sophisticated financial models covering banking, payments, credit cards, rewards, travel, and other emerging revenue streams.
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning, and long-range financial planning.
• Help management make decisions around growth, pricing, product investment, capital allocation, and strategic initiatives.
• Partner with banking and regulatory stakeholders to ensure financial infrastructure and reporting are built appropriately.
• Help management understand and optimize the economics of deposits, payments, interchange, credit, rewards, and other financial products.
• Oversee accounting, financial reporting, treasury, tax, and financial controls.
• Build a finance organization and infrastructure that can scale significantly.
• Establish appropriate financial controls, processes, policies, and reporting cadence.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience serving as a CFO, with substantial time operating in the CFO seat.
• Prior experience as the CFO of a bank or comparable regulated financial institution is required.
• Deep understanding of banking and financial institution economics.
• Significant experience with financial planning, forecasting, accounting, treasury, capital management, and financial controls.
• Experience working directly with boards, investors, auditors, regulators, and financial institutions.
• Strong understanding of fintech, payments, banking, credit cards, or adjacent financial services.

Nice to have

• Experience with consumer banking or credit cards.
• Experience in a fintech, bank-fintech partnership, or technology-enabled financial institution.
• Experience taking a financial organization through significant growth or institutional fundraising.

About the company

Taekus is building the first true luxury consumer bank, powered by vertically integrated rewards technology. The company is combining banking, premium credit cards, loyalty, travel, and concierge experiences into a single ecosystem.