About the Role
Reporting directly to the CFO, the Head of Strategic Finance will play a central role in shaping Ondo’s financial strategy and providing leadership with the insights needed to make high-impact decisions across the business. This is a hands-on, highly cross-functional role at the intersection of FP&A, strategic finance, and capital strategy, partnering closely with leaders across Product, Revenue, Operations, Accounting, and other functions, while helping build the financial infrastructure and processes that will support Ondo as we continue to scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the consolidated operating model across revenue, expenses, headcount, unit economics, and the balance sheet, including the key assumptions that drive the business.
- Lead the annual operating plan, partnering with functional leaders to develop bottom-up plans that align with company-level priorities and financial objectives.
- Maintain the rolling forecast and long-range plan, proactively identifying changes in performance and their implications for the business.
- Deliver thoughtful variance and performance analysis that identifies underlying drivers, assesses their impact on the outlook, and informs recommended actions.
- Build scenario and sensitivity analyses that enable leadership to quickly evaluate strategic decisions and changing market conditions.
- Partner with Product, Revenue, and Operations leaders to develop the KPIs and financial frameworks used to understand business and product performance.
- Build dashboards and reporting that give leadership clear visibility into revenue drivers, product economics, and emerging trends.
- Work directly with business leaders to understand changes in performance, identify underlying drivers, and determine appropriate actions.
- Model the economics of new products, markets, and growth initiatives, including unit economics, contribution margin, break-even dynamics, and expected returns.
- Develop investment cases for strategic initiatives and track realized performance against expectations.
- Own the financial and analytical work supporting board meetings, including financial performance, KPI reporting, strategic initiatives, and forward-looking analysis.
- Develop clear, high-quality investor updates and other external financial communications in partnership with the CFO and leadership team.
- Support fundraising and financing activity through investor models, data rooms, diligence materials, and related analysis.
- Maintain key financial reference materials, including valuation analysis, cap table and dilution scenarios, peer benchmarking, and consistent KPI definitions.
- Help ensure that board members, investors, and other stakeholders have a clear and accurate view of the company’s performance and outlook.
- Partner with the CFO on capital allocation decisions, helping evaluate where financial and organizational resources can generate the greatest impact.
- Support treasury and balance sheet strategy, including liquidity management, yield optimization, runway, and sensitivity to changing market conditions.
- Analyze institutional partnerships and counterparty economics, including pricing, take rates, deal structures, and expected returns.
- Support equity and debt financing analysis as opportunities arise.
- Evaluate strategic partnerships, investments, M&A, and other inorganic opportunities, including financial modeling, valuation, and due diligence.
- Help establish a trusted source of financial information across the organization, with consistent definitions and strong alignment between Finance and Accounting.
- Build scalable reporting infrastructure and automate financial workflows where appropriate, including thoughtful use of modern AI tools.
- Continuously improve the systems and processes that allow Finance to provide faster and more useful insights to the business.
- Help hire, develop, and establish a high analytical and communication bar for future members of the finance team as the function grows.
Requirements
- 8–12 years of experience across strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, corporate development, consulting, or related fields, ideally combining a rigorous analytical foundation with meaningful operating experience at a high-growth company.
- Demonstrated experience owning a company-level or major business-unit financial model, forecast, and planning process.
- Strong FP&A capabilities, including forecasting, KPI development, performance analysis, scenario planning, and business partnering.
- Advanced financial modeling skills, including three-statement modeling and the ability to evaluate businesses or opportunities without straightforward public comparables.
- Direct experience producing board and investor materials, and supporting a fundraise or financing transaction end to end (investor model, data room, diligence Q&A).
- Fluency in capital-side concepts: valuation, cap table and dilution mechanics, financing structures, and capital allocation frameworks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to turn complex financial analysis into clear recommendations for executives and non-finance stakeholders.
- Strong executive presence and the judgment to operate as a trusted partner to senior leaders across the organization.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment and building structure, processes, and analysis as the business evolves.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or another quantitative field.
Skills
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- Financial modeling
- Scenario and sensitivity analyses
- KPI development
- Performance analysis
- Business partnering
- Board and investor reporting
- Capital allocation
- Treasury and balance sheet strategy
- Financial infrastructure
- AI tools
- SQL proficiency
- Modern planning platforms
- BI and dashboarding tools
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote-first
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8-12 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or another quantitative field
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation including but not limited to salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences)
Benefits
- Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental)
- Flexible vacation policy (PTO)
About the Company
- Ondo Finance provides institutional-grade, blockchain-enabled investment products and services.
- The company has a technology arm developing decentralized finance technology and an asset management arm creating and managing tokenized funds.
- Ondo was the first company to tokenize exposure to US Treasuries and has expanded into other assets.
- The company focuses on incubating protocols supporting tokenized real-world assets and traditional crypto.
- Founded by individuals from the Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Team.
- Backed by investors including Founders Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, and Tiger Global.
- Ondo is a leader in the space in terms of AUM and is well-capitalized.
- The team is fully remote with members across the U.S.
