[Hiring] VP, Strategic Finance & Business Operations @Updater

Role Description

Updater is building a category-defining commerce platform with the ambition to become one of the world’s most important commerce infrastructure companies. We’re looking for an exceptional leader to build the company’s Strategic Finance and Business Operations function and help architect the next stage of growth. Reporting to the CFO, this person will sit at the intersection of finance, strategy, data, and execution, owning the financial and operating architecture required to help scale the company toward $1B+ in revenue and beyond.

You will own the company’s forward-looking financial engine, performance-management system, and a portfolio of its highest-priority cross-functional initiatives. You’ll help determine where we invest, what we expect in return, how we measure whether it’s working, and what we do when reality differs from the plan. You’ll inherit a small, high-caliber team and be expected to build a world-class function without unnecessary bureaucracy, combining sophisticated thinking with a highly hands-on, capital-efficient approach.

The mandate is simple: help the company make better decisions, allocate resources more intelligently, and turn strategy into measurable results.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of exceptional performance across strategic finance, finance & strategy, FP&A, business operations, investment banking, private equity, consulting, or similarly rigorous analytical and operating environments.
• A clear trajectory of increasing responsibility.
• Ideally, a combination of rigorous early-career analytical training and meaningful operating experience within a high-growth technology, commerce, payments, marketplace, or platform business.
• Experience operating through meaningful scale, ideally with exposure to a company growing through the hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
• Exceptional financial modeling and analytical capability.
• Deep understanding of forecasting, scenario analysis, unit economics, pricing, capital allocation, investment returns, and business-case development.
• Strong commercial instincts.
• Demonstrated ability to build KPI frameworks, operating cadences, and performance-management systems.
• Demonstrated judgment around organizational scale.
• A player-coach mentality.
• Strong executive presence and exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• High intellectual curiosity, low ego, and a natural tendency to go several layers deeper than the question initially asked.
• Advanced Excel / Sheets capability and strong comfort with BI and analytical tooling.
• Fluency with modern AI tools and agents.

Requirements

• Own the company’s financial planning architecture, including annual planning, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, and scenario analysis.
• Build and maintain a driver-based financial model that connects operating activities, unit economics, strategic priorities, and resource allocation to long-term financial outcomes and enterprise value.
• Partner with the CFO and executive team on capital allocation.
• Develop rigorous business cases for major investments, new products, partnerships, pricing changes, commercial structures, and strategic initiatives.
• Translate financial and operating performance into concise executive and Board-level narratives.
• Architect and own the company’s KPI and OKR measuring frameworks.
• Partner closely with Data leadership to establish a trusted, company-wide source of truth for the metrics that matter.
• Build and maintain executive dashboards.
• Run the company’s operating cadence.
• Turn variance analysis into action by identifying root causes.
• Continuously improve how the company sets targets, measures progress, and holds itself accountable for results.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning GTM, Product, Operations, Data, and Finance.
• Develop the analytical and operating frameworks required to evaluate growth opportunities.
• Partner with the CFO and CRO on commercial planning.
• Identify areas where organizational complexity is preventing execution, and fix them.
• Build scalable systems rather than one-time analyses.
• Design the financial and operating infrastructure required to scale the company to $1B+ in revenue.
• Continuously evaluate organizational leverage.
• Develop existing team members while selectively adding talent.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 13 paid company holidays annually
• Updater Stock Options
• 401(k) with employer match
• Wellbeing Subsidy
• One Medical membership
• Virtual on-demand healthcare through Teladoc and Talkspace
• Flexible spending account (FSA)
• Health savings account (HSA)
• Supplemental Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave