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.

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