Director, Strategic Finance

At Engine, we’re transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we’re here to change that. We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That’s why we’re building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place.

To make this vision real, we’re looking for exceptional, mission-driven people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel.

More than 20,000 companies already rely on Engine to support over 1 million travelers and billions in annual bookings each year. Cash flow positive with rapid growth, we pair exclusive Engine-only rates, industry-leading rewards, and intelligent automation to help businesses save money while delivering world-class personalization and convenience.

Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, Engine has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing travel and fintech platforms in North America, with honors including the Deloitte Fast 500 and Built In’s Best Places to Work.

In this role, you will lead a team of strategic finance managers and analysts to build and operationalize the decision frameworks that unlock growth — influencing how we deploy capital and reach new levels of scale. You’ll drive the financial architecture behind new products, strategic initiatives, and the commercial machine — and translate those into compounding ROI.

• Set and enforce the financial guardrails for investment decisions across new products, partnerships, and GTM motions. Build the frameworks that determine where we place incremental dollars — and the hurdle rates we hold the business accountable to.

• Own the economic engine — CAC/LTV, payback, contribution margin, pricing strategy — and drive cross-company alignment on the levers that accelerate profitable growth.

• Co-own the narrative with the CFO — architecting insights, frameworks, and recommendations for the CEO, ELT, and Board — translating complexity into clarity and action.

• Own and evolve high-impact financial models (e.g., revenue forecast, partnerships ROI, CAC payback) that inform quarterly targets, hiring plans, and investment decisions. 

• Create the review rhythms that drive accountability — cross-functional target setting, monthly/quarterly business reviews, strategic initiative tracking, and performance reviews that drive actual prioritization.

• 7–10+ years across Strategic Finance, Growth Finance, Corporate Strategy, Investment Banking, PE, or a similar environment; ideally with GTM + fintech / SaaS exposure.
• Demonstrated ownership of capital allocation, commercial economics, and investment frameworks.
• Executive presence with a sharp POV; ability to pressure-test assumptions and drive decision clarity with C-suite and functional heads.
• Team builder: track record managing managers / analysts, developing talent, and scaling teams that ship high-quality thinking.
• Systems + tooling: deep modeling fluency and experience driving insight from systems like Salesforce, Looker, Adaptive/Anaplan/Mosaic.

Applications for this role will be accepted through 1/30/2026 or until the role is filled. We encourage you to apply early, as we may begin reviewing applications before the deadline