Finance Manager - Payments Business Partner (Remote-US) bei Nextech

Essential Functions

• Business Partnering & Decision Support:
• Serve as the primary finance point of contact for the payments business, including Stripe-enabled operations, supporting both day-to-day and strategic planning.
• Translate complex business questions into analytical frameworks and deliver clear, actionable recommendations.
• Elevate financial and metric fluency across Payments, Product, and GTM leaders by coaching stakeholders on payment economics, fee drivers, conversion mechanics, and trade-offs.
• Partner with FP&A and Accounting to align forecasts, variance analysis, and executive-level reporting.
• Revenue & Payment Economics:
• Analyze payment flows, transaction volumes, Stripe fee structures, and cost-to-serve dynamics; identify opportunities to improve unit economics.
• Evolve profitability models across key dimensions (e.g., practice cohort, segment, product bundle/SKU, channel, payment method, card-present/card-not-present mix).
• Monitor recurring and explain recurring revenue streams (ARR/MRR), churn, retention, and upsell performance within payment-enabled products.
• Partner with Sales and Customer Success to ensure pricing discipline, discount guardrails, and healthy pipeline economics.
• Build and maintain cohort analyses (activation ramp, volume maturity curves, retention/churn, expansion) to inform growth targets and GTM strategies.
• Pricing & Strategic Initiatives:
• Support pricing and monetization strategies for payment-related products and services, including post-launch performance reviews.
• Develop SKU-level profitability analysis to identify underperforming offerings and margin improvement opportunities.
• Develop pricing frameworks for new payment features, including tiered pricing, bundling, and value-based models. Partner with Sales and GTM teams to implement and monitor adherence.
• Collaborate with Product and Sales to rationalize SKU portfolios and optimize packaging for customer segments.
• Monitor discounting and price realization trends; implement guardrails to protect margin integrity.
• Build scenario models for strategic decisions such as payment partnerships, new product launches, and portfolio changes.
• Data & BI Collaboration:
• Own the Payments KPI architecture and reporting roadmap—ensuring metric definitions, data lineage, and governance that support a trusted “single source of truth.”
• Partner with Enterprise BI to co-create datasets and dashboards for payment KPIs, including transaction success rates, Stripe fee impact, churn, cohort performance, and customer health.
• Develop dashboards tracking volume, SKU adoption, revenue contribution, and profitability by segment.
• Drive a rigorous operating cadence for Payments performance (weekly insights, monthly business reviews, QBR support), surfacing leading indicators, root-cause analysis, and clear actions.
• Cross-Functional Leadership and Stakeholder Management:
• Collaborate with Product and Product Marketing to quantify roadmap ROI, support business cases, and translate field/customer feedback into measurable economic implications.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to ensure reporting supports required controls and that commercial decisions reflect regulatory and operating risk realities.
• Support executive and board-ready materials with high clarity, strong narrative structure, and defensible numbers.

Minimum Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience in finance, analytics, strategy, or data-driven business partnering roles, preferably within SaaS, fintech, payments, or a hybrid SaaS + payments model.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders through insight, structured thinking, and executive-ready communication—driving measurable operational and/or commercial outcomes.
• Strong proficiency in financial modeling, scenario analysis, and unit economics (including pricing, margin, and contribution analysis).
• Experience with payment processing platforms (Stripe preferred) and SaaS recurring revenue models.
• Advanced Excel skills and familiarity with BI tools (Power BI, SQL, etc.).
• Ability to define metrics and partner with analytics teams to build dashboards.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or relevant graduate degree (e.g., Analytics, Data Science, Economics, or Finance).
• Prior experience supporting a payments platform or embedded payments business; familiarity with Stripe and its reporting/fee constructs strongly preferred.
• Experience in vertical SaaS (healthcare preferred) and understanding of healthcare payment workflows and buying centers (self-pay vs insurance-based dynamics).
• Experience operating in private equity–backed environments and supporting investor-grade reporting, planning, and cadence.
• Familiarity with relevant systems: NetSuite, Salesforce, data warehouses/lakes, and planning tools (Adaptive, Planful, Anaplan, Pigment) and/or modern analytics stacks.

Working Environment/Physical Demands

• 100% Remote
• Long-distance or air travel as needed – not to exceed 10% travel