Senior Strategic Finance Business Partner

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Senior Strategic Finance Business Partner

Adyen is looking for a Senior Strategic Finance Business Partner to join our Strategic Finance team within Group Finance. Our team is organized across regions and commercial pillars. As a Senior Strategic Finance Business Partner you play an integral role, partnering with our commercial teams and other stakeholders to provide data-driven insights and recommendations that support (long-term) strategic planning and decision-making. The Strategic Finance team has a global presence in the United States, Singapore, Brazil and Amsterdam. This role is a full-time position in Amsterdam and reports into the Team Lead of Strategic Finance.

What you’ll do

• Build strong collaborative relationships with (commercial) leadership in the business to define and drive (financial) strategy, aligned with Adyen’s long-term growth drivers;
• Lead complex financial analysis and modeling to uncover strategic opportunities, assess risks, and translate intricate data into compelling, executive-level insights;
• Independently own and lead the financial assessment of high-impact business cases and strategic projects, providing critical challenge and guidance to ensure robust decision-making;
• Drive key initiatives within the Group Finance team, playing a pivotal role in shaping financial planning, forecasting processes and other strategic initiatives

Who you are

• 10+ years of experience as a Strategic Finance Business Partner, Business Controller or similar role, ideally within a fast-paced, global, and multinational environment.
• A strategic and analytical thinker with the ability to seamlessly balance long-term strategic vision with effective short-term execution in a complex, dynamic and evolving business landscape.
• Highly data-driven and possess a strong ability to translate complex financial and non-financial data into clear, concise, and actionable insights for diverse stakeholders.
• You possess a high degree of self-motivation, ambition, and a hands-on, entrepreneurial spirit, thriving in environments with a degree of uncertainty and a drive to shape the future.
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with multicultural teams across regions and different time zones.
• While not mandatory, familiarity with SQL or other data analysis tools would be a strong advantage.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

The Adyen Formula

The way we work is guided by the eight principles of the Adyen Formula.

To build the world's most customer-focused financial technology platform, we need as many different perspectives as possible. We’re looking for people from all sorts of backgrounds to contribute.