Abacum

Strategic Initiatives Lead

New York City

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 27 days ago

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About the role

By automating reporting, enabling collaboration, and simplifying planning and forecasting, we help finance teams shift from number crunching to driving strategic decisions.
Headquartered in New York, we have offices in Toronto and Barcelona.
This is a hard role to put in a box, which is intentional.

Abacum is the leading Business Planning solution for finance teams to drive performance.
We have raised over $100m, closing in June 2025 our $60M Series B, led by Scale Venture Partners, with the strong participation of Cathay Innovation, Y Combinator, Atomico, Creandum, and angel operators from Adyen, Zapier, and Twitch.
The Strategic Initiatives Lead will report to the Chief of Staff and work on the problems that matter most to the business right now - not a fixed function.
People who've done this well tend to come from places where the feedback loop was short and the expectations were high - early-stage startups, ex-consultants, strategy roles that bled into execution, or careers where they had to build without a playbook.
If you build, test, and think from first principles, we want to talk.
Customer Obsession: We share the understanding that Abacum's sole purpose is to create value for customers and relentlessly deploy all creativity and energy to that end.

You can sit with ambiguity long enough to form a real point of view, then act on it decisively and with speed.
Strong technical and analytical skills and fluency with data, with the ability to work with metrics and data to inform strategy, pressure-test assumptions, and translate findings into clear, actionable plans
You have an opinion on where each function should be leveraging AI and are eager to bring others along with you.
If you want to figure out what kind of operator you are, this is the place to do it.

Clay for enrichment, n8n for workflows, AI in the loop wherever it replaces manual work.

We share the understanding that Abacum's sole purpose is to create value for customers and relentlessly deploy all creativity and energy to that end.
We are self-reflective and praise diversity of thought.
We don't justify the end with the means and know where to draw the line.
We have fun every day.
Founded in 2020 by two former CFOs, we've grown into a global team of 100+ people across 30+ nationalities.
We're trusted by industry leaders such as Dish Networks, Strava, BetterUp, Kajabi, JG Wentworth, Abridge, Cortex, and hundreds more.
Our mission is ambitious and we can't do it alone - join Abacum as we build the future of Business Planning!
Good People: We are self-reflective and praise diversity of thought.

We truly care for everyone in the team and embrace honest feedback and radical candor as ways to genuinely help each other.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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