Senior Associate, Strategic Finance (Growth)
About The Position
Chime is seeking a Strategic Finance Senior Associate to join its Growth & Marketing Finance team. The role partners with leaders across Marketing, Growth, Product, Data, and Finance to manage marketing budgets, evaluate growth initiatives, measure performance, and inform investment decisions. The team provides data-driven insights to support efficient scaling and sustainable growth. As a thought partner to the business, the Senior Associate helps shape how Chime evaluates and prioritizes growth opportunities, including acquisition strategies and growth partnerships. The role manages a dynamic budget to optimize growth and return on investment, builds trackers and analytical frameworks, and turns performance data into recommendations about investment priorities. The position also supports more accurate and reliable growth and marketing forecasts. The successful candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, action-oriented, and an effective communicator who builds cross-functional partnerships and balances precision with speed.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of relevant experience in Strategic Finance, investment banking, private equity, consulting, venture capital, or a related field; ideally in a high-growth technology environment.
- Exceptional ability to build scalable, efficient, and intuitive financial models.
- Demonstrated experience with cohort data and ROI analysis.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex findings into concise, actionable insights.
- High attention to detail and a strong ownership mindset.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver accurate work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and influence with minimal guidance.
- Ability to communicate with cross-functional partners and senior leadership on a weekly basis.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Looker and SQL.
- Familiarity with the marketing ecosystem, acquisition channels, and channel KPIs.
- Experience in a high-growth technology environment.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Finance, Marketing, and Product leadership to support growth strategy discussions, define success metrics, and measure the impact of initiatives across the user lifecycle.
- Develop, deliver, and maintain reporting that helps business leaders track progress against expectations.
- Support and continuously improve forecasting processes, systems, and tools to reflect growth dynamics, streamline operations, and improve scalability and automation.
- Lead cohort analyses and deep dives by extracting, visualizing, and synthesizing data to identify performance trends, key drivers, and opportunities across acquisition and engagement.
- Contribute to earnings preparation and executive narratives related to user growth, translating complex analyses into clear insights and externally facing performance stories.
- Use automation and emerging AI capabilities to enhance reporting, streamline workflows, and improve scalability.
- Manage a dynamic growth and marketing budget, evaluate growth initiatives, and inform strategic investment decisions.
Benefits
- Backup child, elder, and pet care.
- Subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
- Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits.
- Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off.
- One percent of time off to support local community organizations.
- Annual wellness stipend for eligible wellness-related expenses.
- Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Family planning reimbursement.
- Eligible full-time employees may receive bonus(es) and competitive equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
