Strategic Finance Associate

Join our Strategic Finance team as an Associate, where you will play a key role in driving company-wide decision-making through financial modeling and analysis. This early-career position offers significant ownership and visibility, allowing you to directly influence the growth of a world-changing technology company. You will be responsible for maintaining the company's integrated financial model, conducting variance analysis, building pricing models, and supporting M&A opportunities. Additionally, you will collaborate cross-functionally with various departments to embed financial rigor into business decisions.

Missions

• Own and maintain the company’s fully integrated financial model, including three-statement modeling, bottoms-up budget build, and rolling forecasts across all business units.
• Lead monthly and quarterly variance analysis (actuals vs. budget vs. prior year), translating financial results into clear, executive-ready commentary for leadership and the Board.
• Lead financial modeling for M&A opportunities, including target evaluation, DCF/LBO valuation, synergy modeling, accretion/dilution analysis, and post-close integration tracking.

Profil recherché

- MBA or an advanced degree in finance or business

- Strong command of Excel; comfort working with large, complex datasets and building dynamic, assumption-driven models

- 2+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or a strategic finance role at a high-growth company

- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or a related field

- Experience with variance analysis, budgeting, and financial reporting in an operating company context

- Experience working in a manufacturing, deep tech, or hardware-intensive business

- Experience with financial planning tools such as Mosaic, Pigment, Adaptive, or similar

- Exceptional financial modeling skills

- Private equity or growth equity experience, particularly at the portfolio company level