Strategic Finance Senior Manager - Growth

About Checkr

Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

About the team and role

The Financial Planning & Strategy (FP&S) team provides financial insight and partners with other leaders across our organization to achieve our long‑term goals. We seek to intentionally deploy our resources, optimize our business performance, and drive the highest‑impact outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Ownership & Business Partnership : Serve as the primary finance partner to cross‑functional leads across our Self‑Serve (PLG) and Channel Partnerships businesses, including Product, Marketing, Business Development, and Data Science, building trusted relationships and influencing decisions with strategic financial insights.
• Strategy : Cultivate an ongoing POV of our existing and potential future strategic priorities. Quantitatively validate what could drive the highest revenue impact and ROI.
• Strategic Planning : Drive a considerable portion of our long‑range and annual planning processes. Primary focus areas include defining aligned product and go‑to‑market initiatives that will yield our revenue and ROI goals.
• Investments : Build the business case to determine the best investment of our current resources and to make investment requests to our executive team. Develop frameworks for how we evaluate and track investment success.
• Business Performance Management : Own recurring reporting and forecasting that provide a fundamental understanding of our Sales & Pipeline drivers and actionable insight into opportunities to improve business performance. Share your data‑driven POV on business performance on a weekly basis with Leadership.
• Insights : Proactively deliver data‑driven insights and recommendations that inform go‑to‑market tactics, product features & experiments, and other cross‑functional roadmaps.
• Measurement : Define and evolve KPIs that best measure our business performance. Collaborate with our Data Analytics team to build predictive and automated analytics.
• Deal Structuring & Executive Approvals : Structure partnerships to mutually align incentives and economics. Example deal components include revenue‑share, depth of product integration, and exclusivity. Own the business case and approval process when deal approvals are required by executive leadership.
• Pricing : Collaborate with our pricing strategy team to determine pricing for new products. Create pricing promotions and preferred partner pricing to drive improved customer acquisition and revenue outcomes.
• Planning : Drive the long‑range and annual planning processes - defining strategic priorities, goals, OKRs, and budgets.

What you bring

What you get

Pay Transparency Disclosure

One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.

On‑target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA) $192,000 — $248,600 USD

At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. Starting January 2026, hub‑based employees will be expected to work from the office 3 days per week. In‑office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr

Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and / or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.

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