Strategic Finance Manager

Job Summary:

The Strategic Finance Manager will serve as a key leader within the Strategic Finance function, delivering high-impact financial analysis, strategic recommendations, and cross-functional partnerships with the ability to independently frame business questions, influence stakeholders, and strengthen the analytical capabilities of the broader finance team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead high-priority strategic finance analyses that support long-range planning, investment evaluation, business performance management, and senior leadership decisions.
• Build, audit, and explain complex financial models, including scenario analysis, valuation, investment cases, sensitivity tables, and related decision-support tools.
• Translate financial and operational data into clear insights, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations for senior leaders, finance committees, board-level audiences, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Partner with business leaders to evaluate growth opportunities, profitability drivers, capital projects, pricing decisions, partnerships, and strategic investments.
• Own or support consolidated strategic and financial planning processes, including budgets, forecasts, long-range plans, variance analysis, and KPI reporting.
• Analyze operating metrics, financial performance, and business trends to identify opportunities, risks, and areas for improved profitability or efficiency.
• Manage multiple high-priority initiatives by creating workplans, driving accountability, and delivering high-quality work under tight timelines.
• Lead ad hoc strategic and operational projects independently and in partnership with business leaders.
• Coach analysts and junior finance team members by reviewing work product, raising analytical standards, and helping others develop stronger technical and business judgment.
• Improve reporting, automate recurring analysis, strengthen controls, and help scale finance processes as the organization grows.
• Model Midco's mission, vision, values, ethos, and Leadership Success Drivers, and inspire others to do the same.
• Ensure customer privacy by adhering to Midco's privacy guidelines while actively following Midco policies and procedures.
• Maintain reliable and predictable attendance as required by the position.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Note: Management reserves the right to assign or reassign functions and responsibilities to this job description at any time.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, public accounting, or a similarly analytical finance environment.
• Demonstrated progression within prior roles, including promotion or expanding scope of responsibility within the same organization where applicable.
• Advanced financial modeling capability, with the ability to build models that are accurate, flexible, logically structured, easy to audit, and suitable for leadership use.
• Strong data fluency, including experience working with large data sets, identifying trends, reconciling discrepancies, and converting raw information into actionable insight.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex analysis clearly and concisely to senior leaders.
• Strategic curiosity, sound judgment, and the ability to understand the “why” behind the numbers.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, challenging assumptions, pressure-testing conclusions, and moving from analysis to recommendation with appropriate rigor.
• Executive presence demonstrated through preparation, confidence, clarity, and balanced recommendations.
• Team-first mindset with a focus on elevating the broader finance team, sharing knowledge, and creating leverage for finance leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience coaching, mentoring, or reviewing the work of analysts or junior team members preferred.

The hiring range for this position is $120,000-$145,000. In addition to the base salary, this position is eligible for an annual bonus based on company and/or individual performance.

Work Environment:

• The position is based in a professional office environment with minimal noise distractions.
• Employee may be required to travel occasionally for meetings.

Physical Demands:

• Requires prolonged periods of sitting at a desk, working on a computer, typing, and using standard office equipment.

Mental Demands:

• Requires sustained attention to detail, critical thinking, prioritization, and sound judgment when working with complex information, evolving priorities, and time-sensitive decisions.