FP&A Manager/Senior Manager
About the job
- The candidate must have 4–8+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, or management consulting, including meaningful in-house experience at a high-growth technology, fintech, or crypto company.
- A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Math, or a related quantitative field is required.
- The candidate must have demonstrated experience owning a company-wide planning cycle and partnering with C-suite stakeholders.
- The candidate must have best-in-class financial modeling skills and have built and maintained an operating model relied on by the CFO and CEO.
- The candidate must have deep experience with NetSuite or a comparable enterprise resource planning system and modern planning tools such as Anaplan, Pigment, Cube, Mosaic, Adaptive, or similar.
- The candidate must be comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous, multi-entity environments and able to bring structure where there is none.
- Contribute to the annual operating plan, long-range plan, quarterly reforecasts, and monthly outlooks across the company.
- Help own the integrated three-statement and driver-based operating model as the source of truth for budget, forecast, and scenario work.
- Support the planning cadence, including calendar, target-setting, allocation, and approval workflows.
- Partner directly with executive and functional leaders across Engineering, Product, Marketing, Business Development, and G&A on resource allocation, headcount strategy, and major investment decisions.
- Support monthly and quarterly business reviews by owning the narrative, variance story, and forward-looking call to action.
- Pressure-test strategic initiatives, new product investments, and potential inorganic opportunities with financial rigor and clear return-on-investment framing.
- Prepare board materials, investor updates, and executive operating reviews.
- Own company-wide key performance indicator definitions and reporting, ensuring leadership uses a shared set of numbers.
- Help shape the company’s financial narrative for internal and external audiences.
- Build the financial framework for token economics, on-chain revenue, ecosystem incentives, and digital asset flows.
- Partner with Accounting, Treasury, and Legal on token compensation programs and capital strategy.
- Develop scenario models that capture the growth profile of an omnichain protocol company.
- Build the strategic finance function, including hiring and developing talent as the team scales.
- Stand up the planning technology stack, including enterprise resource planning, enterprise performance management/planning tools, business intelligence, and the data pipelines that feed them.
- Define the financial operating system, including cadence, templates, ownership, and standards that scale with the company.
- Raise the analytical bar across the business and build a culture of financial discipline.
- An MBA, Chartered Financial Analyst designation, or Certified Public Accountant designation is a plus.
- Strong executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to drive senior stakeholders toward a decision.
- SQL or business intelligence tool fluency, including Looker, Tableau, or Hex, is strongly preferred.
- Genuine interest in crypto, blockchain, and the LayerZero mission; exposure to token models, on-chain data, or digital asset accounting is a strong plus.
- Experience contributing to building a finance function or process from scratch is a strong plus.
About the company
LayerZero Labs builds a cross-chain interoperability protocol that connects more than 50 blockchains, enabling omnichain applications, tokens, and experiences. Its product runs on immutable on-chain endpoints with a configurable Security Stack and a permissionless set of Executors that carry censorship-resistant messages between chains. Developers and blockchain organizations use LayerZero to define their own security and efficiency configurations, making it possible to transfer assets and governance data across networks (for example, Curve’s token transfers between Ethereum and Fantom, and Uniswap governance messages on Avalanche). The platform differentiates itself by offering direct, configurable cross-chain messaging and asset transfer through a unified protocol rather than relying on third-party bridges. LayerZero’s goal is to provide seamless, scalable interoperability for building multi-chain applications and ecosystems.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$318M
Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 24, 2026 TACEO's Merces integration adds private cross-chain transfers.
- September 23, 2026 formal verification artifacts improve LayerZero's developer trust story.
- September 2026 hiring across Vancouver, New York, and Hong Kong shows ongoing expansion.
What critics are saying
- September 24, 2026 Evercrest sued LayerZero over the $292 million rsETH exploit.
- Wyoming's FRNT migration to Chainlink CCIP signals institutional buyers distrust LayerZero security.
- December 15, 2026 V1 relayer shutdown and testnet cuts shrink legacy usage.
What makes LayerZero Labs unique
- September 23, 2026 Jolt formal verification strengthens LayerZero's technical credibility.
- September 15, 2026 Stargate integration gives LayerZero control over messaging and asset routing.
- LayerZero still supports 50-plus chains, giving builders broad multichain distribution.
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