Strategic Finance Associate

Parasail; California (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare coverage

PTO + holidays

401(k)

Mentorship

Executive exposure

Job summary

Parasail is redefining AI infrastructure by enabling scalable GPU deployments and cost-efficient cloud solutions. As Strategic Finance Associate you will shape commercial and capital decisions behind Parasail's growth, building models that link customer contracts, GPU investments, pricing, and fleet strategy to revenue, margins, and returns on invested capital.

You’ll collaborate with finance leadership and partners across sales, engineering, and operations to translate analysis into clear

Qualifications

• 2–6 years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, private equity, strategic finance, or FP&A at a high-growth technology company.
• Exceptional financial modeling skills, with the ability to build clean, flexible, assumption-driven models from a blank sheet and defend the reasoning behind every number.
• Strong analytical judgment and structured problem-solving skills, including comfort working with ambiguity and imperfect data.
• The ability to distill complex analysis into concise, actionable recommendations for executives and cross-functional partners.
• A high degree of ownership, initiative, and attention to detail.
• The ability to move quickly and operate effectively in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Genuine interest in AI infrastructure, cloud economics, or capital-intensive business models.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate customer contracts and commercial opportunities. Build and maintain financial models that assess deal structures, margins, payback periods, and risk. Translate your analysis into clear recommendations that support commercial negotiations.
• Underwrite GPU investments. Model GPU purchase decisions, including lease-versus-buy scenarios, financing structures, utilization assumptions, useful life, residual value, and return on invested capital.
• Shape pricing strategy. Analyze unit economics across products, workloads, and hardware types. Benchmark Parasail's offerings against the market and model the revenue, margin, and customer implications of pricing changes.
• Improve fleet economics. Track utilization, cost, and profitability by GPU type and data center. Identify opportunities to improve deployment decisions, capacity allocation, and fleet-level returns.
• Connect operating performance to financial outcomes. Develop dashboards and recurring reporting that link operational metrics-including capacity, utilization, and tokens served to revenue, margins, cash flow, and capital efficiency.
• Support planning and strategic decisions. Contribute to forecasting, budgeting, investor reporting, and high-priority analyses for finance leadership and the executive team.
• Work across the business. Partner closely with sales, engineering, and operations to ensure your models reflect how the business actually operates and can be used to make real-world decisions.

Skills

Financial modeling

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Ownership

Startup mindset

AI infrastructure interest

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Strategic Finance Associate

Parasail is redefining AI infrastructure by enabling seamless deployment across a distributed network of GPUs, optimizing for cost, performance, and flexibility. Our mission is to empower AI developers with a fast, cost-efficient, and scalable cloud experience-free from vendor lock-in and designed for the next generation of AI workloads.

About the Role

We're looking for a Strategic Finance Associate to help shape the commercial and capital decisions behind Parasail's growth.

You'll build the financial models that guide customer contracts, GPU investments, pricing, and fleet strategy. Working closely with finance leadership and partners across sales, engineering, and operations, you'll connect how the platform runs-cost capacity utilization and performance to revenue, margins, and returns on invested capital.

This is a highly visible role with meaningful ownership from day one. Your analysis will directly inform negotiations, resource allocation, and strategic decisions in one of technology's fastest-growing and most capital-intensive markets.

What You'll Do

Evaluate customer contracts and commercial opportunities. Build and maintain financial models that assess deal structures, margins, payback periods, and risk. Translate your analysis into clear recommendations that support commercial negotiations.

Underwrite GPU investments. Model GPU purchase decisions, including lease-versus-buy scenarios, financing structures, utilization assumptions, useful life, residual value, and return on invested capital.

Shape pricing strategy. Analyze unit economics across products, workloads, and hardware types. Benchmark Parasail's offerings against the market and model the revenue, margin, and customer implications of pricing changes.

Improve fleet economics. Track utilization, cost, and profitability by GPU type and data center. Identify opportunities to improve deployment decisions, capacity allocation, and fleet-level returns.

Connect operating performance to financial outcomes. Develop dashboards and recurring reporting that link operational metrics-including capacity, utilization, and tokens served to revenue, margins, cash flow, and capital efficiency.

Support planning and strategic decisions. Contribute to forecasting, budgeting, investor reporting, and high-priority analyses for finance leadership and the executive team.

Work across the business. Partner closely with sales, engineering, and operations to ensure your models reflect how the business actually operates and can be used to make real-world decisions.

What You'll Bring

• 2-6 years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, private equity, strategic finance, or FP&A at a high-growth technology company

• Exceptional financial modeling skills, with the ability to build clean, flexible, assumption-driven models from a blank sheet and defend the reasoning behind every number

• Strong analytical judgment and structured problem-solving skills, including comfort working with ambiguity and imperfect data

• The ability to distill complex analysis into concise, actionable recommendations for executives and cross-functional partners

• A high degree of ownership, initiative, and attention to detail

• The ability to move quickly and operate effectively in a fast-paced startup environment

• Genuine interest in AI infrastructure, cloud economics, or capital-intensive business models

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, data centers, GPUs, semiconductors, or another hardware-intensive business

• Familiarity with capital-equipment financing, asset-backed structures, or lease accounting

• Working knowledge of SQL or Python for data analysis

• Experience with usage-based or consumption-based pricing models

What We Offer

• Competitive base compensation and meaningful equity

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage

• Generous PTO and company holidays

• 401(k) and family-planning benefits

• Direct mentorship from and daily collaboration with finance leadership

• High visibility with Parasail's executive team

• Meaningful ownership over decisions involving real capital and commercial outcomes

• The opportunity to help build the financial foundation of a company operating at the frontier of AI infrastructure

Parasail is an equal opportunity employer that values workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, or any other status protected by applicable law. Parasail is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities.