Strategic Finance Manager, Platform

As a Strategic Finance Manager supporting Platform at Coinbase, you'll join the FP&A team that translates the company's mission into a sustainable financial reality. You'll own the company's financial roadmap, from the annual operating plan and rolling forecasts to in-depth business reviews. You serve as a key financial partner to Platform leadership, owning the analysis that guides operational expenditure planning and drives high-impact resource allocation decisions as the company scales.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end financial deliverables including forecasting, reporting, and analysis for your business partners, ensuring the annual budget and monthly planning cycles are met with precision
• Drive month-end close for your areas by conducting detailed variance analysis and partnering with the Accounting team to maintain the integrity of financial data
• Identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities by proactively analyzing financial and operational data and surfacing the "why" behind the numbers before being asked
• Partner with Platform leadership as a trusted financial advisor, preparing and presenting analysis during business reviews and translating complex data into clear recommendations
• Build and maintain the financial models that quantify risks, opportunities, and investment trade-offs across your portfolio

What you bring

• 6+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, or similar fast-paced finance environment
• A track record managing large-scale OpEx budgets (headcount, infrastructure, AI, contractors) across multiple cost centers
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders on resource allocation and investment decisions through clear, actionable financial analysis
• Advanced financial modeling skills, SQL proficiency for data analysis, and hands-on experience with planning tools such as Anaplan or NetSuite, or data visualization tools such as Looker or Tableau
• The ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g. LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality

About Coinbase

Coinbase is a remote-first company on a mission to increase economic freedom. The company operates with intense working sessions called "surges" held quarterly in person.