Strategic Finance Expert - Analyst - AI Trainer

Obsidian; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian in Dallas is seeking a strategic finance professional to develop robust business cases, perform NPV/IRR analyses, and drive capital allocation decisions for projects, products, or make-versus-buy scenarios.

You will build scenario analyses across demand, pricing, and costs, and assess discount economics to support price setting and deal desk approvals, contributing to a cost reduction program with measurable savings.

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

Capital decisions 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.