Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

About the role

ABOUT POLYMARKET Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future. We're growing fast — both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire. ABOUT THE ROLE Polymarket US is looking for a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance to lead financial planning and performance management for our U.S. business and regulated entities. You'll own an integrated three-statement forecast by department and legal entity, together with the consolidated U.S. outlook — covering headcount and vendor planning, cash and liquidity, cost of sales, revenue sharing, customer acquisition economics, and management reporting. This is a hands-on role for a finance leader who combines rigorous modeling, strong accounting fluency, and practical judgment. You'll move easily between detailed analysis and executive-level insight, challenge assumptions constructively, and build durable planning processes that create trust through accurate, transparent, decision-useful work. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and maintain an integrated three-statement model by department and legal entity, with a consolidated view of the U.S. business - Lead annual planning, periodic reforecasts, long-range planning, and scenario analysis, maintaining clear assumptions, documentation, and version control - Establish a monthly and quarterly cadence with business leaders to review performance, outlook, hiring, vendor commitments, and key risks and opportunities - Translate operating plans into driver-based budgets and forecasts, and help leaders evaluate financial tradeoffs - Deliver clear variance analysis and recommendations that strengthen accountability and decision-making - Produce entity-level and consolidated U.S. forecasts, including cash, working capital, intercompany activity, shared costs, and funding requirements - Forecast liquidity and regulatory capital needs for the U.S. regulated entities - Build driver-based forecasts for cost of sales and other transaction-driven expenses, including payment, settlement, fraud, chargeback, and infrastructure costs - Model revenue-share arrangements, customer acquisition spend, and contribution economics to support commercial decisions - Prepare concise monthly and quarterly reporting that explains performance, changes in outlook, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions - Use AI-enabled tools, automation, and scalable planning systems to improve forecast accuracy and expand self-service financial insight WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 8+ years of progressive experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, corporate finance, or a related role - Demonstrated ability to build and own integrated three-statement models at the department, legal-entity, and consolidated levels - Strong accounting and financial-statement fluency, including accruals, working capital, cash flow, intercompany activity, allocations, and close-to-forecast reconciliation - Experience leading budgets, rolling forecasts, long-range plans, scenario analysis, and executive reporting - Track record as an effective finance partner to senior leaders, with the judgment to challenge assumptions while preserving trust - Experience modeling cost of sales, variable costs, gross margin, contribution economics, or other transaction-driven business models - Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, strong communication, and high ownership in a fast-moving environment - (Plus) Experience in fintech, payments, exchanges, clearing, brokerage, capital markets, marketplaces, gaming, crypto, or another high-volume transaction business - (Plus) Experience supporting regulated legal entities and forecasting capital, liquidity, or funding requirements - (Plus) Familiarity with revenue-share agreements, customer acquisition spend, and unit-economic frameworks such as CAC, payback, and contribution margin - (Plus) Experience with planning systems, ERPs, and BI or data tools used to validate assumptions and improve recurring reporting - (Plus) Experience applying AI, automation, or scripting to improve financial modeling, forecasting, or reporting BENEFITS - Competitive salary & equity - Unlimited PTO - Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage - 401k match - Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories PAY TRANSPARENCY Base salary range: $200,000 to $275,000 annually, plus equity and benefits. This range reflects a good-faith estimate for this position. Experience levels vary widely within a title here, so please reach out even if your expectations fall outside it. We're always happy to chat.