Compensation Overview

What you’ll be responsible for:

Circle is looking for a dynamic Director to join our Corporate FP&A team. As a vital member of the team, you will collaborate closely with department leaders to provide essential insights into budgets, forecasts and key metrics to support decision making. You will also play a key role in putting together our quarterly analyses and forecasts for the board of directors for which our team works directly with the CFO to help craft the analyses and messaging.

What you’ll work on: 

• Engaging directly with leaders and budget stakeholders across the organization to facilitate forecasting of key operational spend areas including vendor spend and headcount during annual planning and quarterly board updates. Become a thought partner to business leaders to help them understand their spend and prioritize initiatives.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to reduce variance in forecasts and improve understanding of variance drivers. 
• Playing a key role in the creation of quarterly board of director and investor level financial presentations in direct collaboration with the CFO, helping to shape our narrative.
• Applying advanced financial analysis techniques to provide insights on critical and bespoke business issues, enabling senior stakeholders to make well-informed choices.
• Contribute to maintaining and improving corporate financial models that forecast, track, and analyze our financials including all three financial statements.
• Contributing to the evolution of Circle’s finance capabilities by being a key part of ERP and EPM implementation processes and actively seeking to improve finance processes across the organization.

You will aspire to our four core values:

• Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
• Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.  
• Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals. 
• High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards.  You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance.

What you’ll bring to Circle: 

• Bring a minimum of 12+ years of FP&A experience, marked by a proven ability to lead the opex budgeting process with cross functional owners end to end.

Advanced proficiency and past experience in working with financial systems and building FP&A models in planning tools; Oracle, SAP, or Anaplan preferred.

• Ability to build and nurture partnerships with stakeholders at all levels with effective communication.
• Advanced proficiency in Google Sheets / Microsoft Excel, using these tools effectively to create meaningful financial insights.
• Knowledge of GAAP accounting standards, how the financial statements interact, and an ability to digest dynamic three statement models. 
• Thrive in a dynamic, innovative startup environment characterized by rapid change and evolution.
• High emotional intelligence, empathy, and self-awareness, emphasizing a team-oriented approach that prioritizes client and customer satisfaction.
• Bachelor’s degree, providing you with a solid academic grounding in finance and/or accounting. MBA preferred.
• Experience or familiarity with tools such as Slack, Apple MacOS. 
• You are energized by the promise of blockchain technology.

Additional Information:

• This position is eligible for day-one PERM sponsorship for qualified candidates.

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.

Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.

Base Pay Range: $187,500 - $240,000

Annual Bonus Target: 20%

Also Included: Equity & Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)). Circle has a discretionary vacation policy. We also provide 10 days of paid sick leave per year and 11 paid holidays per year in the U.S.