Lead the financial planning and analysis function, providing insights for decision-making and mentoring the FP&A team.
About Nium
Nium is the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments. We were founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. Our platform enables banks, fintechs, and global businesses to move money instantly, everywhere.
Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with offices in 14 markets worldwide, we are entering one of the most exciting chapters in our journey. In July 2025, we delivered the largest month in our 10-year history with record revenue, record volumes, and EBITDA profitability. Today, Nium moves nearly $50B in payments annually, almost entirely for enterprises, while continuing to strengthen an already healthy balance sheet.
It is an incredible time to join us, and we are only just getting started.
Our payout network spans 190+ countries and 100 currencies, with 100 corridors in real time. We power seamless transfers to accounts, wallets, and cards, support local collections in 35 markets, and run a card issuance business live in 34 countries. Backed by regulatory licenses in more than 40 markets, we make it simple for our partners to onboard, integrate, and scale globally. This scale and innovation have earned us recognition as one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025, winner of Best Cross-Border Payments Solution at the PayTech Awards, and inclusion in FXC Intelligence’s Top 100 Cross-Border Payments Companies list.
In 2024, we raised US$50 million in Series E funding at a US$1.4 billion valuation to accelerate network expansion, product innovation, and talent growth. With the B2B payments market projected to hit US$175 trillion by 2030, Nium offers ambitious builders the chance to shape the future of global money movement with the scale of a leader and the energy of a high-growth company.
About the role
Nium is seeking a highly strategic and hands-on Director of FP&A to lead our financial planning and analysis function. This role will own the company’s financial planning, forecasting, and performance insights, serving as a critical thought partner to executive leadership, the Board, and investors.
Reporting to the CFO, the Director of FP&A will be responsible not just for financial outputs, but for helping the business understand reality, anticipate outcomes, and make better decisions in a complex, global payments environment. This is not merely a reporting role. It is a leadership role that requires strong judgment, deep operational understanding, and the ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable insight.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the annual financial planning process, rolling forecasts, and long-range plans with clear timelines, accountability, and rigor.
- Build and maintain driver-based financial forecasts grounded in operational reality, explicitly modeling seasonality, onboarding ramps, client concentration, timing lags, and variability.
- Deliver timely and insightful budget vs. actuals analysis, translating financial variances into underlying operational and commercial drivers.
- Provide client- and cohort-level financial insight, including analysis of top clients, pipeline dynamics, onboarding progress, churn, and margin performance.
- Proactively identify risks, trade-offs, and emerging issues, communicating decision points early rather than explaining outcomes after the fact.
- Partner closely with Revenue Operations, Solutions Engineering, Strategic Finance, and Treasury to ensure financial narratives align with commercial and operational reality.
- Develop financial models and conduct scenario analysis to evaluate growth initiatives, investments, and strategic decisions.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team, raising the standard for analytical thinking, judgment, and business understanding.
- Prepare and support financial materials for executive leadership, the Board, and investors, including data room support and diligence requests.
- Implement and scale next-generation FP&A systems and dashboards that integrate financial and operational data, reducing reliance on spreadsheet-centric workflows.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, or related roles.
- Experience in fintech, payments, or other transaction-based technology businesses.
- Proven ownership of complex, end-to-end planning and forecasting processes in high-growth, global environments.
- Demonstrated ability to build driver-based financial models that reflect how the business actually behaves, not simplistic averages.
- Strong judgment and intellectual curiosity, with a track record of constructively challenging assumptions and anticipating leadership questions.
- Ability to clearly communicate financial insights and implications to executive, Board, and investor audiences.
- High proficiency in Excel and modern financial planning and analytics tools.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, large data sets, and multiple concurrent priorities with discipline and clarity.
What we offer at Nium
We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.
We Care: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).
We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.
We Constantly Innovate: Since our inception, Nium has received constant recognition and awards for how we approach both our business and talent opportunities. Check out CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companies 2024.
We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!
We Thrive With Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
For more detailed region-specific benefits: https://www.nium.com/careers#careers-perks
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Nium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Nium complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Nium expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
Nium San Francisco, California, USA Office
95 Federal Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94107
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