Senior Manager of Strategic Finance

StubHub•New York, NY

19d•Hybrid

About The Position

StubHub is seeking a Senior Manager of Strategic Finance to join its Finance organization. This role will be instrumental in shaping how the company plans, allocates resources, evaluates investments, and measures performance. Reporting to the Vice President of Strategic Finance, the position serves as a key thought partner to business leaders and senior executives, translating financial and operational data into actionable insights and recommendations. This is a highly visible role at the intersection of finance, strategy, and operations, requiring close collaboration with leaders across business units and functional domains to develop forecasts, evaluate opportunities, identify risks, and ensure resource alignment with company priorities. The ideal candidate is a player-coach, adept at building financial models, crafting executive narratives, and leading a team. This individual will have the opportunity to help define and build a best-in-class Strategic Finance function, establishing scalable processes, analytical frameworks, and reporting to enhance decision-making.

Requirements

8–10 years of relevant experience in corporate finance, FP&A, investment banking, consulting, or related analytical finance role.
Significant experience partnering with Product and Engineering leaders.
Demonstrated experience owning financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation processes.
Exceptional financial modeling and analytical skills.
Experience evaluating new initiatives and investment opportunities, including opportunity sizing, scenario analysis, ROI assessment, and business-case development.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to distill complex financial and operational concepts into clear, concise narratives.
Strong business judgment and intellectual curiosity, with an ability to look beyond the numbers to understand the underlying operational and strategic drivers of performance.
2+ years of people management experience, with demonstrated success coaching, developing, and motivating high-performing finance professionals.
A genuine player-coach mentality — willing to roll up your sleeves and build the analysis while simultaneously setting direction, developing talent, and raising the standard for the broader team.
Strong financial and analytical capabilities combined with excellent business judgment, communication skills, and an ability to build trusted relationships across an organization.
Comfortable moving between detailed analysis and executive-level discussions.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities can evolve quickly.

Nice To Haves

Experience at a marketplace, consumer technology, or e-commerce business is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic finance partner to business unit leaders, proactively identifying financial and operational risks, opportunities, and emerging trends and translating those insights into actionable recommendations.
Lead headcount and vendor planning across supported business units, partnering with senior leaders to understand resource requirements, establish investment priorities, and ensure spending aligns with financial objectives.
Evaluate and size new initiatives and investment opportunities, developing business cases, scenario analyses, ROI frameworks, and financial models that enable leadership to make informed capital allocation decisions.
Develop scalable reporting frameworks that provide business leaders with timely, relevant, and decision-useful insights into financial and operational performance.
Improve financial processes and analytical infrastructure, helping evolve StubHub's planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance-management capabilities as the company continues to scale.
Collaborate closely with Consolidations and Investor Relations during period-end close and earnings preparation, helping ensure leadership has a clear and consistent understanding of financial performance, key business drivers, risks, opportunities, and forward-looking trends.
Lead, coach, and develop members of the Strategic Finance team, creating a high-performance culture while remaining hands-on with the team's most important analyses and deliverables.