Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

New York City, onsite

About the role

Nelo is hiring a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance to own the models that help us understand the business, plan with precision, and make better decisions as we grow.

This role sits close to the core of how Nelo operates. You will own financial models across growth, originations, P&L, and cash forecasting, and work closely with our VP of Finance and senior leaders on some of the company’s most important decisions.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role with real ownership. We are looking for someone who is highly analytical, dependable, and excited to stay close to the work.

What you’ll do

You will own and improve Nelo’s core models across growth, originations, P&L, and cash flow. You will build scenario models for planning, fundraising, and investor materials, and turn model outputs into clear recommendations for senior leadership.

You will also build tools that help leadership think through tradeoffs across growth, cash, margins, and performance. You will track key assumptions, monitor actuals against expectations, and flag meaningful changes early. You will support fundraising, diligence, and other strategic finance work, and partner closely with Finance, Risk, Product, and leadership to keep assumptions grounded in business reality.

Minimum qualifications

• 5–7+ years of experience in investment banking, strategic finance, or other highly analytical finance roles

• Exceptional Excel and financial modeling skills

• Strong analytical horsepower and comfort working through complex, multi-driver models

• Ability to move between detailed modeling work and clear business communication

• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and follow-through

• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with substantial ownership

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred qualifications

• Started in investment banking and then moved into fintech, tech, or a high-growth operating environment

• Experience in consumer lending, BNPL, credit cards, or fintech

• Experience building models tied to originations, losses, revenue, and cash

• Experience supporting equity raises, debt fundraising, or investor diligence

• Experience in a lean startup or growth-stage company

• Spanish fluency

Why this role matters

This role is central to how Nelo understands the business and makes decisions.

Your work will help shape growth planning, cash and margin decisions, fundraising, and other major operating decisions across the company. You will be helping leadership see around corners, pressure-test assumptions, and make sharper decisions in a business that is growing quickly and operating with real complexity.

This is a hands-on role with meaningful exposure to senior leadership and a high degree of ownership.

Location

This role can be based in our New York City or Mexico City office. The expectation is four days per week in the office and one flex remote day per week.

We are not considering fully remote candidates for this position.

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: $170,000–$205,000 USD (NYC office)

• Equity

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Equity refresher opportunities

• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees

• 50% coverage for dependents

• Unlimited PTO

• 401(k)

• Extended parental leave

• Relocation support where applicable

About Nelo

Nelo is building the credit layer that expands consumer buying power in Mexico.

Today, Nelo serves customers through credit cards, BNPL loans, bill payments, and its own marketplace. The business has grown to more than $80M USD in annual revenue, has raised more than $140M in equity and debt, and is building with real scale and momentum.

Nelo operates across Mexico City and New York City. Our team is lean, highly capable, and deeply focused on execution. We move fast, stay close to the numbers, and care a lot about quality.

If you want to work on finance problems that are tightly connected to how a real business grows, performs, and raises capital, this is a rare opportunity to do that.