Strategic Finance Expert - Analyst

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

Job summary

Mercor in New York is seeking a senior strategic finance professional to build business cases and investment appraisals, using NPV, IRR and payback to support capital decisions.

You will analyze pricing, margins, and cost bases, perform scenario planning, and help ranking investments within the portfolio, ensuring rigorous financial stewardship.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in strategic finance, corporate strategy, or corporate planning within an operating company.
• Evidence of owning a capital or pricing decision presented to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Create business cases with NPV, IRR, and payback for projects or make-vs-buy decisions.
• Rank investments with capital allocation determinations against hurdle rates.
• Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses for the corporate plan.
• Analyze pricing, margins, and cost to support deal desk approvals.
• Produce market sizing, unit economics, and cost baseline analyses.

Skills

Strategic finance

Corporate strategy

Corporate planning

Decision ownership

Job description

About the work

We're building a high-quality library of strategic finance work products. You'll complete self-contained exercises from mock files (market data, cost baselines, pricing schedules) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.

What you'll do

• 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.

You're a fit if you have

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

Nice to have

• Management consulting or Big 4 strategy background now in an operator seat; growth equity background now in-house; deal desk or pricing strategy experience.

Assessment

A business case with NPV and IRR from mock project files; a pricing and margin recommendation; a capital allocation ranking.

Note:

at some companies this seat reads as Corporate Planning or Business Analysis. Fund-side strategy roles are out of scope.