Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

Join Kraken as a Senior Financial Analyst and play a key role in driving financial planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and analysis. This highly visible role will support strategic decision-making by leveraging analyses, investment frameworks, and a problem-solving mindset. You will provide integral support for core services and platform teams, helping craft holistic company insights to shape Kraken's future. The Corporate Finance team collaborates with various departments on revenue, expense, and liquidity strategy, advising senior leaders on product decisions and investments. This fully remote position offers the opportunity to contribute to a mission-focused company accelerating global crypto adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field
• 3-5+ years of experience with a proven track record in Investment Banking, Consulting or Finance & Strategy in a high growth tech public company
• Excellent problem solving, quantitative and analytical skills and a track record of delivering results on corporate wide initiatives
• The ability to distill complex information into clear problem statements that can be systematically analyzed and communicated; frames both approaches and solutions in a way that is actionable for all audiences
• Comfort working with metrics, building new KPIs and navigating large data sets to find answers to complex problems
• Ability to navigate ambiguous workstreams and build processes from scratch
• Knowledge of financial markets and strong passion in cryptocurrency
• High degree of curiosity and self motivation to understand the “why” behind all decisions

Responsibilities

• Assist with forecasting, budgeting and the long-range planning process for the entire business, coordinating with internal partners and stakeholders on managing the business
• Preparation of management reporting and presentations including month-end close reporting, board reporting, and monthly/quarterly business reviews
• Track headcount across all departments – including active roster, open roles and compensation levers – and link to budgeting and financial forecasts
• Participate in monthly meetings with Finance leadership to review spend and variance analysis
• Work closely with the data team to ensure all data outputs are validated and accurate
• Enhance the understanding at the corporate finance level of critical business performance drivers and maintain a good view of business strengths and weaknesses
• Identify, develop, and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics for FP&A
• Partner closely with Treasury and Capital Markets on liquidity management
• Assist with ad hoc projects and analysis that will drive strategic decision-making
• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideal candidate would have strong financial/strategic analysis and modeling skill sets with a background in FP&A, Business Finance, Equity Research or Capital Markets
• SQL / Querying Experience a plus
• Prior experience working in the crypto industry a plus