Strategic Finance Lead – Forecasting, Margins & Cost Optimization

Hippocratic AI Inc.; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Hippocratic AI is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance to lead the Strategic Finance team and provide strategic insights to leadership during rapid growth. You will own the full P&L forecasts including GPU and cloud expenses, headcount (FTE and hourly), contractor costs, software, and more, while supporting margin analysis and cost optimization initiatives.

You will consolidate and report the 3-statement financial model, manage revenue/expense forecasts, forecast balance sheet and cash

Qualifications

• 7-9 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, and strategic finance/FP&A at a high-growth tech company
• Undergrad degree in a quantitative field
• Very strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Own consolidation and reporting of the 3 statement financial model for the company
• Own consolidation of revenue and operating expense forecasts
• Own balance sheet and cash flow forecasts
• Work with accounting team to maintain accuracy between general ledger and financial model
• Prepare monthly commentaries on actuals vs budget
• Report on key business KPIs and metrics driving P&L performance
• Prepare materials for board and investor reporting
• Own Gross Margin modelling, analysis, and reporting
• Own forecasting, reporting, analysis, and commentary on gross margins
• Own and build forecasts for all COGS related items including GPU/cloud, telephony, ASR, TTS, and customer success teams
• Own GPU, non-GPU cloud cost, and human eval modelling and reporting
• Work closely with the platform engineering and LLM teams to forecast GPUs
• Own and build forecasts for non-GPU cloud costs and human eval
• Provide commentary on plan vs actuals and trends in overall costs and unit economics
• Own headcount forecast and reconciliation while working with the HR team
• Work closely with the recruiting team to maintain headcount cost forecast by department
• Provide variance analysis for monthly plan vs actuals
• Own forecasts and optimization for all contractor, software, and G&A spend
• Track and capture weekly spend desk requests

Skills

Investment banking experience

Private equity experience

Strategic finance/FP&A

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Education

Undergrad degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Excel

Financial software

Job description

Hippocratic AI is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance to lead the Strategic Finance team and provide strategic insights to leadership during rapid growth. You will own the full P&L forecasts including GPU and cloud expenses, headcount (FTE and hourly), contractor costs, software, and more, while supporting margin analysis and cost optimization initiatives.

You will consolidate and report the 3-statement financial model, manage revenue/expense forecasts, forecast balance sheet and cash