[Remote] Strategic Finance - R&D/G&A

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mercury is a fintech company modernizing banking for startups and ambitious companies. They are seeking a finance partner for their G&A and R&D teams to help with planning, resource allocation, and financial modeling.ResponsibilitiesBe the dedicated finance partner to R&D and G&A leadership. Own the financial relationship with our Engineering, Product, Design, HR, Legal, and Finance teams. Understand their priorities deeply enough to anticipate their questions before they ask themOwn headcount and operating expense planning for your orgs. Build and maintain the bottoms-up models that drive our R&D and G&A cost bases—headcount by team, vendor spend, allocated infrastructure costs, and discretionary budgets—and keep them current as plans evolveSupport strategic resource allocation decisions. Help R&D leaders think through build vs. buy tradeoffs, team sizing decisions, and investment prioritization. Help G&A leaders evaluate vendor contracts, assess functional scaling ratios, and manage cost efficiency as the company growsDrive the annual planning and ongoing forecasting cycles for your orgs. Translate business priorities into financial plans, own the forecast-to-actuals variance process, and surface insights that help leaders adjust course in real timeBring structure to ambiguous investment questions. Whether it’s evaluating a new engineering platform, sizing a legal team for a new product line, or assessing the ROI of a people program, you’ll take complex, qualitative problems and return clear financial framing and a point of viewSkills3–5 years of experience in investment banking, strategic finance, or consulting—ideally with some exposure to technology companies or organizations where headcount is the primary cost driverStrong financial modeler who can build a clean, flexible headcount or opex model from scratch, and explain it to someone who doesn't live in spreadsheetsGood judgment about what level of precision a given decision actually requires—you know when to build the model and when a back-of-envelope answer is betterGenuinely curious about how product and engineering organizations work—you want to understand what drives team structure, why infrastructure costs scale the way they do, and what makes a people investment pay offBuild trust quickly with non-finance partners. You're comfortable walking into a room full of engineers or lawyers and asking the questions that get you to the real answerComfortable pulling and working with data independently—SQL, BI tools, or FP&A platforms—to support your own analysis without relying on a data teamCommunicate with clarity—you can distill a complex cost driver analysis into a crisp narrative for a leadership team, and you know when to lead with the number and when to lead with the contextBenefitsBase salaryEquity (stock options/RSUs)BenefitsCompany OverviewMercury provides digital banking and financial tools tailored for startups and modern businesses. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://mercury.com.Company H1B SponsorshipMercury has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 14 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.