Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) / Corporate Development Leader

Job Title: Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)/ Corporate Development Leader

Company Background

Black Dragon Capital LLC (BDC) is a unique growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in areas where information technology is enabling the disruption of industries by allowing a faster, better and more economically compelling way to solve industry issues. We seek to benefit from a diverse perspective combined with high performance operating and investment executives. We hire and promote based on merit, without bias, and make a genuine effort to ensure we have a diversified team that aligns with the diversity of our portfolio companies and their clients. We intend to maintain over 65% of our team members as culturally or gender diverse and work hard to foster a supportive and welcoming workplace. Bringing a leadership and advisory group of successful entrepreneurs, former operators and deal making experience, Black Dragon’s team has a track record of building market leading companies, driving above market returns and accelerating growth and profitability through its distribution connections, strategic advice, and active participation within our investments, primarily in financial technologies, eCommerce, and sports and media technology markets.

Role Overview

This FP&A & Corporate Development role is a key part of the leadership team reporting directly to a transaction partner. The role will involve leading the analysis of the Pursuits Team, including the assessment of investments and acquisitions. The role will help identify, assess, model and recommend - together with the Transaction and One Dragon Team - to make investments or acquisitions. The role must have a strong operational orientation and experience from operating companies in software and services in a similar role. The role will require a deep understanding of how strategy and execution translates to a financial expression that can be measured and managed. This role is ideal for someone who loves building processes and teams thrives in fast-paced environments, and understands the pace and priorities of FinTech investments and buyouts and the analysis needed to drive success.

Fp&a

What You’ll Do:

• Create financial models to monitor existing investments and their performance relative to expectations.
• Develop dashboards to measure performance against expectations for multiphase investments which could be start-up companies to large buyout investments.
• Establish early-stage reporting infrastructure (KPIs, dashboards, cash runway tracking) using lightweight tools (Excel, Notion, Airtable, etc.) and evolve over time.
• Partner with founders and department heads to set financial goals and track key metrics (e.g., burn rate, CAC/LTV, GMV, revenue retention).
• Support decision-making on hiring plans, pricing strategy, GTM investments, and product roadmap prioritization.
• Prepare investor updates, Board decks, and capital planning materials.
• Work with buyout companies on dashboards and reporting. Help partner group manage investment performance.
  
  

Corporate Development & Strategy

• Lead financial modeling and valuation for fundraising rounds, strategic partnerships, investments and M&A opportunities.
• Partner on pitch deck development and due diligence materials for investors (Seed, Series A, etc.).
• Conduct competitive and market research to inform company strategy and product-market fit.
• Support founder/CEO in evaluating strategic opportunities and communicating growth story to external stakeholders.
• Create detailed models to support investment committee recommendations on investments and acquisition opportunities.
  
  

What You Bring

• 5-8+ years of experience in FP&A, operating expertise in similar roles for a software and services company who has managed investors in private equity or venture capital.
• Understand how operational issues impact the assumptions around modeling and forecasting.
• Strong command of financial modeling, SaaS or fintech metrics, and capital efficiency strategies.
• Excellent communication skills, both in financial storytelling and cross-functional collaboration.
• Comfort operating as a player-coach, with willingness to roll up your sleeves and iterate rapidly.
• Fintech experience, especially in areas like embedded finance, B2B payments, credit/lending, or core banking a plus.
• Exposure to financial infrastructure, compliance, or regulated environments.
  
  

Location: South Florida Remote. Willing to travel as needed.

About Black Dragon Capital

Black Dragon Capital (“BDC”) is a minority-controlled, growth driven private equity fund created by technology operating executives with a track record of creating market leading companies and an impressive investment return history. We seek to benefit from a diverse perspective combined with high performance operating and investment executives. We hire and promote based on merit, without bias, and make a genuine effort to ensure we have a diversified team that aligns with the diversity of our portfolio companies and their clients. We intend to maintain over 65% of our team members as culturally or gender diverse, and work hard to foster a supportive and welcoming workplace. BDC focuses on the areas where it has direct operating and investment expertise that include technology investment opportunities in industries disrupted by the impact of digitization on individuals, groups and enterprises such as retail commerce, financial services, healthcare, and sports and media. The operationally focused fund has driven above market returns by creating unique sourcing, funding, recruiting, growth and return opportunities.