Strategic Finance Expert - Analyst - AI Trainer

Mercor; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a strategic finance professional to join our team in Dallas, TX. You will build rigorous business cases, perform investment appraisals, and guide capital allocation decisions at the leadership level, influencing pricing, margins, and portfolio strategy.

The role involves scenario planning for the corporate plan, pricing analyses, and market sizing with competitive insights. Ideal candidates bring 4+ years in strategic finance within an operating company and a track record of

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 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

Strategic finance

Corporate strategy

Corporate planning

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.