Strategic Finance Analyst: Investment & Pricing Strategy

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is building a high-quality library of strategic finance work products. You will complete self-contained exercises from mock files and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.

You will build business cases with NPV/IRR, perform capital allocation analyses, and develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to challenge top-level plans. A focus on pricing, market sizing, and cost savings completes the picture.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in strategic finance, corporate strategy, or corporate planning within an operating company.
• Ownership of a capital or pricing decision that went to a leadership forum.

Responsibilities

• Build business cases and investment appraisals with NPV, IRR and payback for a project, product, or make-versus-buy decision.
• Produce capital allocation determinations ranking investments against hurdle rates with portfolio review.
• Build scenario and sensitivity analyses of the corporate plan across demand, pricing and cost.
• Analyze pricing and discount economics supporting price setting and deal desk approvals with margin impact.
• Produce market sizing and competitive landscape analysis, cohort and unit economics, and cost baseline and savings analysis for a cost reduction program.

Skills

NPV analysis

IRR analysis

Capital allocation

Pricing strategy

Scenario analysis

Sensitivity analysis

Market sizing

Cost savings analysis

Portfolio review

Ownership responsibility

Job description

Mercor is building a high-quality library of strategic finance work products. You will complete self-contained exercises from mock files and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.

You will build business cases with NPV/IRR, perform capital allocation analyses, and develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to challenge top-level plans. A focus on pricing, market sizing, and cost savings completes the picture.