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Strategic Finance Manager

The Strategic Finance Manager will own the integrated financial model, lead forecasting and scenario planning, and support acquisitions, fundraising, capital-structure decisions, and executive or board analysis. The role requires 4–7+ years in strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, corporate development, or a similarly rigorous analytical environment.

130k – 175k/yr
Remote4+ YOEFinance & Accounting

About the role

Responsibilities

Company Financial Model and Scenario Planning

  • Own and continuously improve the company’s integrated three-statement financial model.
  • Translate operational drivers—including bookings, revenue, pricing, customer behavior, headcount, and expenses—into reliable financial forecasts.
  • Build rapid scenario analyses for growth investments, pricing decisions, organizational plans, and strategic alternatives.
  • Evaluate the impact of decisions on revenue, profitability, cash flow, capital requirements, and company value.
  • Develop detailed near-term forecasts and long-range strategic plans.

Strategic Transactions and Corporate Development

  • Support the evaluation of acquisitions, partnerships, and other inorganic growth opportunities.
  • Build valuation, returns, synergy, accretion/dilution, and financing analyses.
  • Support transaction processes from initial screening through diligence, structuring, and integration planning.
  • Develop recommendations balancing strategic rationale, financial returns, execution risk, and opportunity cost.

Capital Structure and Shareholder Analysis

  • Maintain a detailed understanding of the company’s capitalization and ownership structure.
  • Model equity financings, debt alternatives, secondary transactions, acquisitions, and other capital-structure scenarios.
  • Analyze dilution, shareholder proceeds, payout waterfalls, and financing tradeoffs.
  • Partner with legal, accounting, and external advisors to ensure analyses are accurate and decision-ready.

Financial Planning and Performance Management

  • Lead annual planning, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning.
  • Partner with functional leaders on headcount, operating expenses, investment priorities, and performance targets.
  • Identify operating and financial drivers behind variances, emerging risks, and opportunities.
  • Connect short-term financial performance to broader strategic objectives.

Executive, Board, and Investor Support

  • Prepare decision-ready materials for executive leadership, the board, investors, and other external stakeholders.
  • Turn complex financial analysis into concise narratives, recommendations, and clear choices.
  • Support fundraising and investor diligence processes as needed.
  • Help leadership evaluate tradeoffs across growth, profitability, liquidity, and long-term enterprise value.

Finance Infrastructure

  • Improve the speed, reliability, and transparency of forecasting and decision-support processes.
  • Establish clear assumptions, controls, and documentation around key models.
  • Partner with Accounting and operational teams to strengthen data quality and consistency between actual results and forecasts.
  • Identify opportunities to automate recurring analysis and create scalable finance workflows.

Requirements

  • 4–7+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, strategic finance, corporate development, or a similarly rigorous analytical environment.
  • Exceptional financial modeling skills, including integrated three-statement models, transaction analysis, valuation, and multi-scenario forecasting.
  • Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and how operating decisions flow through the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.
  • Ability to move between detailed analysis and executive-level recommendations.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining complex financial topics to non-finance stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated judgment, discretion, and maturity when working with sensitive company information.
  • High ownership, attention to detail, and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience with high-growth B2B software, fintech, payments, or recurring or usage-based business models.
  • Experience evaluating acquisitions, financing alternatives, or strategic transactions.
  • Familiarity with cap tables, equity financings, transaction waterfalls, and shareholder-return analysis.
  • Experience preparing materials for boards, investors, lenders, or senior executives.
  • Exposure to operational planning, pricing analysis, or sales compensation.
  • Experience with financial systems, planning platforms, or business-intelligence tools.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Annual salary range: $130,000–$175,000.

Skills

Financial Modelingthree-statement modelingfinancial forecastingscenario planningvaluationcorporate developmentm&a analysiscapital structureFP&Aaccountingcap tablesfinancial planningpricing analysisBusiness Intelligence

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