As Marqeta’s Strategic Finance Senior Manager you will join Marqeta's FP&A team. This role sits at the center of the most consequential financial questions the company is asking — cross-functional strategic initiatives, long-range planning, resource allocation, investment trade-offs, and product profitability — and partners directly with FP&A leadership to answer them.
This is a Strategic Finance role in the truest sense. The work isn't structured around the close calendar — that's the planning team's mandate. You'll certainly have recurring cadences: board-meeting analysis, leadership reviews, planning cycles. But most of your week looks like working through a portfolio of strategic projects that shape real decisions. One week you might be modeling marketing LTV to test whether a proposed budget increase actually pencils out. Next, you're partnering with the credit team on a build-versus-partner analysis for a new product. The week after, you're stress-testing a long-range scenario for an upcoming board meeting. Some projects span months; others resolve in a few days. The throughline is that good financial thinking shapes the decision.
You'll also work closely with the VP, FP&A as a trusted partner — running projects independently, representing FP&A in rooms when needed, and absorbing scope as the function grows. This is a player-coach role from day one: while it starts as an individual contributor, you'll set the bar for analytical quality across the broader team, mentor analysts informally, and grow into formal people management as the team scales.
You'll partner directly with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations leadership — embedded enough to understand what each team is actually trying to do, financial enough to translate that into models and recommendations, and senior enough to push back when the numbers don't support the narrative. The work spans the full P&L: topline modeling (revenue, gross profit, unit economics) and operating expense (headcount, marketing investment, T&E, vendor spend, capex). Most Strategic Finance roles skew one way or the other — this one expects fluency across both.
The pace at Marqeta is fast, the executive visibility is high, and the work is genuinely interesting. The right person is energized by ambiguity, takes pride in a clean model, and gets excited about helping operators make better decisions.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the U.S. or from our local Oakland office. We'd love for you to join us!
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Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:
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When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position is:
We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.
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