Sparkadvisors
Strategic Finance Lead
New York City. Posted 8 days ago
The role
You will own Spark's economics, including unit economics, revenue, and cash forecasting. You will build financial models, lead annual planning, and act as a finance connection to sales, product, and operations teams.
What you will do
- Build and own Spark's unit economics at every level
- Turn carrier and commission data into repeatable processes and analyses
- Be the source of truth for unit economics
- Forecast revenue and cash under different assumptions
- Own the drivers behind the forecast
- Help lead annual planning, targets, and KPIs
- Support new financial products for agency partners
- Build investor and board analysis and models for new business lines
- Provide leadership with fast, clear answers and recommendations
- Link finance to sales, partner success, operations, product, and data teams
Required qualifications
- 5–7+ years in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, consulting, private equity or credit
- Excellent financial modeling, including linking operating drivers to revenue and cash flow
- Track record of turning raw, unstructured data into repeatable processes and analyses using tools like SQL, Power Query, Python, or AI tools
- Sound judgment with imperfect data
- Ability to take a vague question to a clear recommendation
- Clear, concise communication with executives, board members and outside partners
Nice to have
- Experience in insurance, insurance distribution, Medicare, fintech, lending or another commission-based business
- Structured finance, receivables financing or credit analysis
- Experience with Snowflake, Hex or similar tools
- M&A modeling
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Health care, including dental and vision
- Flexible work location; co-working available
- 401k
- Paid Time Off
- Monthly Remote Work Stipend
- Paid Parental Leave
- Up to 14 weeks for birthing parents
- Up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents
- 11 paid holidays
- 2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment
- Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, Calm, and more!
Before you apply
- All work must be conducted from an approved location within the U.S.
- Spark uses the E-Verify program to confirm employment eligibility
About the company
Spark is a fast-growing Medicare platform that combines AI, an industry-leading CRM, and client services to transform how brokers acquire, enroll, and support clients. The team is backed by Primary Ventures and Viewpoint Ventures.