# Strategic Finance Manager

**Company:** [VGS](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vgs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $130k – $175k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, three-statement modeling, financial forecasting, scenario planning, valuation, corporate development, m&a analysis, capital structure, FP&A, accounting, cap tables, financial planning, pricing analysis, Business Intelligence
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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**.

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