Strategic Finance, Speak
$109-165k
+ Equity
English language learning app
Open for applications
English language learning app
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$109-165k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To teach the next billion people English and become the de facto way people learn languages.
Role
Who you are
- This is not a reporting-and-maintenance role. The ideal candidate brings genuine analytical horsepower, operates with a high degree of independence, and has the judgment to know when to go deep and when to move fast. They will be one of the primary sources of financial truth for the business
- 4-7 years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or a comparable analytical role — with prior startup or high-growth tech experience strongly preferred
- Advanced financial modeling skills (Excel or Google Sheets): driver-based forecasting, scenario analysis, sensitivity tables, and the ability to build clean, auditable models from scratch
- Strong AI tool enablement, able to work with frontier models and AI tools and validate the fidelity of the output
- Direct experience supporting full planning cycles: annual operating plan, quarterly re-forecasts, and board or investor-facing materials
- Fluency in SaaS and B2B metrics — ARR, NRR, LTV/CAC, payback period, quota capacity, and unit economics are part of your daily vocabulary
- Strong written communication: structures analyses so non-finance stakeholders can read, review, and act on them without a translator
- High ownership and high integrity — treats models and processes as yours to improve, not just maintain; handles confidential data with discretion
What the job involves
- Speak's Finance team is AI-first, fast, comprehensive, data driven, and expected to punch well above its weight
- The Senior Finance Analyst role will increase the team's throughput on the analytical work that actually moves decisions: building and owning core models, running planning cycles, and partnering with functional leaders to translate strategy into measurable financial plans
- This is not a reporting-and-maintenance role
- The role will report to the Head of Finance and will partner across all areas of the business to drive our highest-priority planning workstreams in 2026
- Be the trusted enterprise GTM cross-functional partner — own standing finance cadences with global enterprise GTM team; provide realtime insights and hold GTM leadership accountable to financial decision making
- Own enterprise GTM financial modeling and BvAs end-to-end — build and maintain the GTM forecast, ARR model, and GTM P&L, partnering closely with GTM Leadership and RevOps
- Own enterprise quote capacity and quota attainment modeling end-to-end - build and maintain the capacity planning model, attainment model, and commissions calculations, partnering closely with GTM Leadership and RevOps
- Be the trusted Talent and People cross-functional partner — own standing finance cadences with Talent and People teams to drive headcount, bands, and people costs decision-making
- Drive headcount and OPEX planning — own headcount approvals and benchmarking, payroll forecasting, and vendor-level OPEX forecasting across the business
- Partner on strategic planning — contribute to the Long Range Plan, compensation strategy, and new market investment frameworks alongside the broader Finance team
- Build decision-support analyses — turn ambiguous business questions into structured recommendations on investments, pricing, market entry, and resource allocation
- Be a trusted cross-functional partner — own standing finance cadences with S4B, People, and other functional partners; show up with accurate numbers and a clear point of view
Our take
As the international language of business, there are many incentives for global entrepreneurs to learn English. With over 1.5 billion people actively learning English to improve their job prospects, the customer base for Speak, an AI tutor in the English language, is potentially massive.
Investors believe so too, with tens of millions of dollars raised to fund the company from a range of international firms, including Korean investors and the Silicon Valley-based OpenAI Fund. This surge of capital will help Speak develop its software and open new markets, especially in the US.
Speak is attempting to break into a highly saturated education market, and the success of learning English fluently through its platform is yet to be proven. That being said, it has the potential to become a leading tool specifically in the mobile app sector if it can prove itself as efficient and accessible as the language learning platform Duolingo.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2024
$78m
SERIES C
Jun 2024
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $165.9m
Company benefits
- Speak offers all the standard benefits you'd expect at a tech startup, along with stipends for commuting, fitness, and learning!
- In addition, team members are encouraged to travel between offices and we also host an annual company offsite
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Connor Zwick
(CEO)Previously Advisor at Chegg Inc, CEO at coco Controller, Flascards+ and Freelance Blogger at Envato.
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