Strategic Finance Manager

Overview

This Strategic Finance & FP&A role is a generalist position with a Strategic Finance orientation, focused on delivering financial clarity and strategic discipline to leadership. The work spans financial analysis, strategic projects, AI-enabled transformation, business performance, and procurement.

The role involves independently driving analytical and cross-functional workstreams while partnering closely with senior Finance and company leaders.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Analysis & Business Partnership: Independently address high-priority business questions including AI costs and ROI, market opportunities, new products, pricing and packaging, and strategic investments. Structure ambiguous problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and translate imperfect data into clear recommendations and decisions.
• Financial Modeling & Forecasting: Own key areas of forecasting, headcount and spend planning, and financial modeling. Build and improve driver-based models to evaluate scenarios and support decisions around growth, efficiency, and investment.
• AI Transformation & Automation: Help develop next-generation Finance infrastructure by improving data quality and connectivity across systems and building AI-enabled workflows. Redesign processes and automate repetitive work to create capacity for higher-value analysis and decision support.
• Business Performance & Insights: Analyze financial and operational performance, identify key drivers and leading indicators, and define and track the metrics and KPIs that matter most. Build reporting and operating cadences to proactively identify risks, opportunities, and actions.
• Procurement & Spend Optimization: Own and continuously improve procurement processes, tooling, and request workflows. Support vendor evaluations, renewals, benchmarking, and negotiations, and identify opportunities to reduce costs, optimize licenses, eliminate redundant tools, and improve spend efficiency.

Requirements

• Experience: 5–7 years of experience across investment banking, management consulting, Strategic Finance / FP&A, Business Operations, or similar analytical roles. Experience operating in a high-growth technology company is strongly preferred.
• Financial & Analytical Rigor: Strong financial modeling and analytical skills; able to build analyses from a blank page in Excel or Google Sheets with a high bar for accuracy and an understanding of when additional precision will—or won’t—change a decision.
• Business Judgment & Problem Solving: Highly analytical and intellectually curious; able to structure ambiguous problems, reason from first principles, focus on what matters, and move from analysis to a clear point of view and recommendation.
• Ownership & Execution: Organized, dependable, and comfortable independently managing multiple workstreams; able to prioritize effectively and move between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
• AI, Systems & Data: AI- and systems-minded; comfortable rethinking processes and using AI, automation, and improved tooling. Experience with SQL, BI tools, or data visualization is a plus.
• Communication & Partnership: Clear, concise communicator who can translate complex analysis into executive-ready recommendations and adapt detail level to the audience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SQL, BI tools, or data visualization (plus).
• Experience in a high-growth technology company (strongly preferred).

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary Range: $150,000–$180,000
• Compensation is based on multiple factors including location, role scope and complexity, candidate experience and expertise, and market data, and may vary from the range provided.

Benefits and additional offerings include:

• Learning budget for relevant learning and up-skilling opportunities
• Full-remote flexibility for employees in the US, with a work-from-home stipend
• Flexible PTO
• Paid Health, Dental, and Vision plans: 100% paid for employees and 75% paid for dependents
• Home office stipend: $1,000, plus WiFi reimbursement
• Optional team retreats with in-person meetings multiple times per year
• Parental leave: 8–16 weeks of fully-paid, flexible parental leave

Location

• Full-remote flexibility for employees in the US.
• If based near a Boston hub, there is no set requirement for how often to come into the office; attendance is determined based on what works best for you and your team.

Work Authorization

• You must have an eligible work permit in the USA to be considered for this position.