Strategic Finance Expert - Analyst

Obsidian; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian seeks a strategic finance professional to lead high-impact analyses in a corporate planning environment. You will develop investment appraisals, oversee capital allocations, and run scenario analyses to inform leadership decisions.

The role focuses on pricing strategy, margin optimization, and market sizing within a fast-moving organization. Strong ownership of critical pricing and capital decisions is essential.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Build business cases and investment appraisals with NPV, IRR and payback for projects.
• Produce capital allocation determinations ranking investments against hurdle rates.
• Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses of the corporate plan across demand, pricing and cost.
• Analyze pricing and discount economics to support price setting and deal approvals.
• Produce market sizing, competitive landscape, and unit economics analyses for cost savings.

Skills

Strategic finance

Corporate strategy

Corporate planning

Ownership of capital decisions

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.