Square is growing its financial services footprint through the launch of new products and international expansions. This is an exciting time for our business and to support these activities we are looking for multiple Managers to join our Finance and Strategy Banking team to lead strategic and business planning for our Credit business.

This position will be fundamental in shaping our credit strategy and communicating critical decisions to Product leadership, our Bank partners and to Block management. Success in this role requires the ability to exercise excellent business acumen while often operating autonomously without existing problem solving frameworks or precedent solutions. We are looking for someone with a strong analytical background who can manage and drive these solutions across a variety of strategic and financial focused challenges.  

Candidates can sit in any Square office in the US or be remote from any US state with the exception of Alaska.

You Will: 

Serve in a divisional CFO-like capacity for our credit products. Key responsibilities will include: 

• Lead all strategic and business planning for Square’s global credit business, including understanding key internal and external drivers and business performance trends to inform decision making for critical investments

• Act as the lead strategy partner to our Credit Product teams, driving business planning and insights that will shape the future of our lending strategy

• Create analyses that allow leaders to make clear decisions through strategic, highly visible projects

• Forecast, analyze and report business performance

• Work with senior leaders and partners to surface strategic insights for decision making

• Collaborate across Marketing, Capital Markets, and Business Intelligence (among other teams) to identify and understand complex relationships between key drivers of our business

• Direct management and oversight of a high performing Sr. Financial Analyst

You Have:

• 6+ years of relevant experience in a combination of Banking, strategy/operations and/or finance/planning functions

• Prior experience in credit/lending is highly preferred

• People leadership experience, preferred

• Ability to exercise sound judgment and clearly articulate outcomes to senior management

• Advanced proficiency in Excel (can perform complex functions), there will be a case study

• Demonstrated exceptional achievement in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment

• Experience leading complex projects end to end involving multiple stakeholders

• Ability to employ large datasets to identify performance insights that influence decisions

• Experience with SQL and/or other relational database programming languages, preferred

• Commitment to Square's purpose of Economic Empowerment

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page. 

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement Plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness perks
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.