Strategic Finance Manager, Operations
On-siteSouth San Francisco, California, United States
South San Francisco, California, United StatesOn-siteFull TimeLOGISTICSSmall
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Job Summary
Own forecast versus actuals and lead annual planning for Global Operations teams spanning maintenance, flight operations, supply chain, and launch. Build driver-based models for unit economics, site performance, and launch timing while partnering with operators to translate operational constraints into financial insights. Develop ad hoc analyses for margin optimization, cost reduction, and resource allocation, then surface risks and tradeoffs to senior leadership. Create repeatable reporting tools and dashboards to improve visibility and decision speed across Finance, Engineering, and Product.
Required Qualifications
- 5–10 years of experience in strategic finance, corporate finance, operations finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, consulting, business operations, or another highly analytical role
- Deep financial modeling experience, including forecasting, scenario analysis, unit economics, P&L analysis, capex and opex planning, investment evaluation, and return-on-investment analysis
- Strong financial judgment and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs across growth, margin, capital allocation, operational scale, timing, and complexity
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, with the ability to build clean, dynamic, scalable models that others can understand and use
- Strong business-partnership skills, including the ability to work directly with operators, understand operational realities, and translate them into financial insight
- Experience owning forecasting, annual planning, consolidation, variance analysis, and recurring business-performance reviews
- The ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, work with imperfect data, and create structure where processes are still being built
- High ownership, low ego, and strong curiosity
- You are energized by business problems where the answer is not obvious and the data is not perfectly packaged
- You can move fluidly between a detailed financial model, a conversation with an operator, and a recommendation to senior leadership
- You know how to build models that are rigorous enough to support major decisions but practical enough to be used by the business
- You are comfortable challenging assumptions while still building trust with business partners
- You want to understand how the operation actually works, not just how it appears in a spreadsheet
- You can distinguish between spending that accelerates scale and spending that adds complexity without enough return
Desired Qualifications
- Comfort working with large datasets and partnering with Data teams. Experience with SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Mode, Tableau, Hex, Python, or R is a plus
- Experience in hardware, logistics, aviation, robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, fleet operations, healthcare devices, physical infrastructure, or another operations-intensive business is strongly preferred, but not required
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