Senior Strategic Finance Analyst

🧡 About Alma

At Alma, we believe sustainable commerce depends on fair, well‑balanced trade. Because finance plays a pivotal role in business, our mission is to put it back in its rightful place - serving merchants and consumers.

Our installment and deferred payment solutions help merchants boost sales by 20% or more, increase customer loyalty, and deliver a seamless shopping experience - without encouraging bad debt.

As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we've empowered over +25,000 merchants and 10 million consumers.

With 400+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe as a member of the Next40, and we're just getting started!

👐 About the team

Strategic Finance sits within Alma's Finance function and reports to the CFO. The team owns pieces of Alma's P&L end-to-end (top line, unit economics, pricing and the business plan), from the model all the way to the Board deliverables.

This is a newly created position, opened as we structure Strategic Finance around strategic nodes for 2027. You will report to the Head of Strategic Finance and have no direct reports.

The role is deliberately versatile. Your first perimeter will most likely be New Business & Growth (new merchant acquisition in France including Enterprise, the Consumer business, and our two youngest markets, DACH and Iberia), but scopes are assigned by profile and rotate over time, so what matters most is your ability to own any part of Strategic Finance as the team and the business grow.

This position is a permanent contract (CDI), based at our Paris HQ (Saint-Ouen), hybrid.

💼 About the job

• Own a piece of Alma's P&L end-to-end. Take a scope from the business plan through to the recurring analysis and the Board deliverables (top line, unit economics and contribution margin), keeping the models clean and reliable.
• Drive pricing. Run pricing for new and existing merchants, own the floor margins, and support high-stakes deals and RFPs with a clear recommendation.
• Partner with the business and inform decisions. Be the finance counterpart of the commercial, product and operations teams, produce the top-line and P&L notes, country reviews and Board slides, and challenge the business with a point of view rather than just reporting the numbers.
• Push AI into how the team produces. Prototype and industrialise AI-assisted workflows to automate recurring notes, COGS and business-plan builds, and pricing analysis. We want someone who raises the bar on how the team works, not only on what it delivers.

🧰 You will work with

Google Sheets and Excel, SQL (largely AI-assisted at Alma), Notion, Slack, and AI assistants / LLMs.

🧩 About you

To succeed in this job

• Around 6 to 7 years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, transaction services, consulting or a comparable analytical role, ideally in a fast-paced or scale-up environment.
• Strong financial modelling and pricing skills: you can build a top-line business plan from raw data, and you have a sharp data sense and learn new tools fast (querying is largely AI-assisted here, so data judgement matters more than deep SQL).
• A strong appetite for AI and the ability to learn it fast: at minimum a genuine drive to bring AI into how we work, ideally a track record of building and industrialising AI-assisted workflows.
• Versatile, autonomous and business-oriented, able to influence stakeholders and take end-to-end ownership of a scope. Work happens in English; you need French sufficient for day-to-day interactions with colleagues (native French is not required).

And it will be nice if you also

• Hold a Master's degree in Finance, Business or Engineering, or equivalent.
• Bring exposure to fintech, payments or BNPL.
• Speak a third language beyond French and English, a real plus given Alma's European growth.

Don't meet every single requirement? At Alma, we believe great hires come from diverse paths. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply. We value potential, curiosity and the ability to grow as much as experience.

🧘 What's in it for you

If you join, you will be able to grow and impact on:

• Real ownership from day one of a meaningful piece of Alma's P&L, with direct exposure to the CFO and the Board.
• A front-row seat to reinventing how a finance team works with AI: you will design and industrialise the workflows, not just use them.
• A versatile, high-visibility scope in a fast-scaling European scale-up (Next40), with room to grow within Strategic Finance.

🤑 Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary based on 12 months
• Profit-sharing and employee savings plan
• Health insurance: 100% covered by Alma including family package
• Disability insurance: 100% covered by Alma
• Sport: partnerships with Gymlib and Classpass, or €30/month reimbursement for your sports activities
• Maternity/paternity leave: salary maintained at 100% during leave with no seniority requirement. Return to work at 4/5 schedule paid at 100% for 8 weeks.
• Sustainable Mobility Package (FMD): €544.80/year (excluding full-remote contracts)
• Meal vouchers: €10/day, 50% covered by Alma
• Mental health: free access to MindDay platform
• Paid time off: 25 days/year (+ additional paid leave granted for employees on executive contracts)
• Access to our Learning & Development Platform
• 2 weeks of full remote possible per year in summer

🎯 Interview Process

• Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member to understand your path, motivation & present you the role.
• Video call with your future manager to deep dive the role, the team, your profile and answer all your questions.
• Case study presentation with 2 - 3 team members (ideally in house) to assess your practical knowledge.
• 1 or 2 additional interviews customized to the role's level to further assess your skills and team fit.

🌍 Diversity & Inclusion

At Alma, we believe that diversity fuels innovation and makes our community stronger. We are committed to building a workplace where every person feels seen, respected, and empowered to do their best work whatever their gender, background, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability or lived experience. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all walks of life, and all employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.