# Strategic Finance Lead
**Company:** [Nourish](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nourish)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Excel, Google Sheets, Financial Modeling, FP&A, Kpi Analysis, Cohort Modeling, AI, Planning Software, SQL, Python
**Posted:** 2026-05-07
> Leads strategic finance initiatives including corporate operating model ownership, planning/forecasting, KPI tracking, and financial reporting for execs/board. Partners across business on cost optimization, growth strategies, M&A; requires 5+ years FP&A experience and Excel/AI expertise.
## Job Description
## Key Responsibilities

- Own key sections of the 3-statement corporate operating model — maintaining accuracy and running core aspects of the planning and forecasting process (annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, long-range planning)
- Drive and maintain our KPI framework — building cohort models and tracking key metrics across retention, LTV, payback, and margins to sharpen financial performance
- Build and support our financial reporting cadence — weekly, monthly, and quarterly packages for the exec team, board, and investors that go beyond the numbers to drive decisions
- Drive G&A and headcount cost forecasting and reporting — partnering with department heads to build accurate forecasts, surface risks early, and identify opportunities to optimize spend
- Serve as a key finance business partner across the organization, driving smarter investment decisions and strategies to optimize cost, improve unit economics, and accelerate growth
- Support ad hoc strategic work — capital raises, M&A, and other high-impact initiatives
- Drive improvement and automation across our finance systems and processes — leveraging AI and planning software where it adds value to improve forecasting accuracy, decision speed, and how insights are delivered to the business

## Requirements

- 5+ years of Strategic Finance, FP&A, or Corporate Finance experience at a high-growth company, with a background in investment banking, consulting, or M&A transaction services
- Demonstrated experience building and owning 3-statement corporate financial models from the ground up
- Comfortable operating across the full planning cycle — annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and performance reporting
- Strong business partnering instincts — build trust across functions, facilitate difficult conversations, and distill complexity into clear narratives that drive decisions
- Expert in **Excel** / **Google Sheets** with strong accounting fundamentals
- Highly process-driven and technically curious — comfortable working across data and reporting tools to automate workflows, and genuinely excited about how **AI** is reshaping finance
- Highly fluent in **AI**, data, and modern tooling — comfortable leveraging AI workflows, vibe coding lightweight solutions, and working hands-on with data to improve decision-making, automate analysis, and scale finance operations efficiently
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment
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