Strategic Finance Lead

About the company

Hi, we're Ondo Finance. Our mission is to provide institutional-grade, blockchain-enabled investment products and services. We have both a technology arm that develops decentralized finance technology, and an asset management arm that creates and manages tokenized funds. We were the first company to tokenize exposure to US Treasuries, and have since expanded into several other assets. We are also focused on incubating protocols that can support both tokenized real-world assets and traditional crypto. Founded by folks from Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Team, we’re backed by some of the best investors in the world including Founders Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Tiger Global, and more. We are currently the leaders in the space in terms of AUM and are well capitalized to continue growing the firm. We're fully remote, with team members across the U.S.

About the Role

Reporting directly to the CFO, the Strategic Finance Lead 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.

You will own our forward-looking financial model and planning process, develop the KPIs and analysis that help us understand business and product performance, and translate those insights into clear recommendations for the executive team. You will also support board and investor communications, capital allocation, strategic partnerships, financing activity, and other priorities as they arise.

This is a hands-on, highly cross-functional role at the intersection of FP&A, strategic finance, and capital strategy. You will partner 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.

What You'll Own

Financial Planning & Analysis

• 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.

Business & Product Performance

• 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.

Board & Investor Reporting

• 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.

Capital Strategy & Strategic Initiatives

• 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.

Finance Infrastructure & Team Development

• 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.

What Success Looks Like

• The executive team has a clear, trusted view of company performance, financial outlook, and the key drivers behind both.
• Product and business leaders have meaningful KPIs and financial insights that help them make better decisions.
• Leadership can quickly understand changes in performance and evaluate the financial implications of new opportunities.
• Board, investor, financing, and partnership conversations are supported by high-quality analysis and well-prepared materials.
• Capital allocation decisions are transparent, tied to company priorities, and grounded in clear financial trade-offs.
• Finance becomes an increasingly proactive partner across the organization as Ondo scales.

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.

Nice to Haves

• Experience in financial services, fintech, asset management, digital assets, or tokenized assets.
• Experience working with institutional counterparties such as banks, asset managers, broker-dealers, or distribution partners.
• Experience managing or optimizing a corporate balance sheet or treasury portfolio.
• SQL proficiency or the ability to independently access and structure data for analysis.
• Experience with modern planning platforms such as Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive, or Mosaic, as well as BI and dashboarding tools.
• A track record of using AI and automation to improve finance workflows and decision-making.
• Experience at a company operating under, or preparing for, public-company reporting standards.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation including but not limited to salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) — We are well-funded and believe that great talent deserves great compensation.
• Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO).
• Remote-first team across many countries — You will be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices.
• A+ colleagues — Our team includes alumni from: Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, Uniswap.
• Best-in-class investors — We are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund and Coinbase Ventures.

Originally posted on Himalayas