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Strategic Finance Associate

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Skills

Required

  • variance analysis
  • roll up your sleeves
  • Excel
  • building dynamic, assumption-driven models
  • budgeting
  • financial reporting
  • financial planning tools
  • Mosaic

Preferred

  • build pricing models
  • three-statement modeling
  • rolling forecasts
  • scenario/sensitivity analysis

Join our Strategic Finance team as an Associate, where you will play a key role in driving company-wide decision-making through financial modeling and analysis. This early-career position offers significant ownership and visibility, allowing you to contribute to the financial infrastructure that supports our planning cycles, M&A activity, and leadership decision-making.

This role is ideal for those looking to develop deep financial modeling skills in a fast-paced environment and make a direct impact on a company scaling a world-changing technology.

Responsibilities

  • You will own and maintain the company's fully integrated financial model, lead variance analysis, build pricing models, and support joint ventures and strategic partnerships.
  • Own and maintain the company’s fully integrated financial model, including three-statement modeling, bottoms-up budget build, and rolling forecasts across all business units.
  • Lead monthly and quarterly variance analysis (actuals vs. budget vs. prior year), translating financial results into clear, executive-ready commentary for leadership and the Board.
  • Build and maintain customer and product-level pricing models, including unit economics, contribution margin by segment, and scenario/sensitivity analysis to support commercial decisions.

Requirements

  • A “no job too big or small” mindset, with willingness to roll up your sleeves and build from zero
  • MBA or an advanced degree in finance or business
  • Strong command of Excel; comfort working with large, complex datasets and building dynamic, assumption-driven models
  • 2+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or a strategic finance role at a high-growth company
  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or a related field
  • Experience with variance analysis, budgeting, and financial reporting in an operating company context
  • Experience working in a manufacturing, deep tech, or hardware-intensive business
  • Experience with financial planning tools such as Mosaic, Pigment, Adaptive, or similar

Preferred

  • Exceptional financial modeling skills
  • Private equity or growth equity experience, particularly at the portfolio company level

Pay

USD 110,000 - 135,000