Strategic Finance Manager

Genesis Partners - Executive Search; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical/dental/visi

Life insurance

401(k)

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Genesis Partners - Executive Search in Greater Los Angeles is seeking a Strategic Finance Manager for a deep-tech startup with a large equity stake. You will own the operating model, build multi-year plans, and lead deal valuation and vendor synergy analysis to drive strategic decisions.

You will partner with Leadership, Operations, Sales, and Engineering to embed financial discipline and inform capital allocation in a fast-scaling environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, or related field.
• 2+ years in investment banking, private equity, or strategic finance at a high-growth company.
• Operating-company exposure to budgeting, variance analysis, and financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the keeper of the company's core operating model: three-statement build, bottoms-up budgeting, and rolling re-forecasts spanning every business unit
• Turn monthly and quarterly actuals into sharp, board-ready narrative: where results landed versus plan and prior year, and why
• Model unit economics and pricing at the customer and product level, running scenarios and sensitivities that inform commercial strategy
• Take the analytical lead on deal work: valuation (DCF, LBO), synergy cases, accretion/dilution, and tracking integration performance
• Translate the company's strategic roadmap into a documented 3-to-5-year financial plan with clearly flagged assumptions and risks
• Evaluate joint ventures and partnerships, building the economic models, return waterfalls, and term sheet analysis behind them
• Help leadership weigh capital allocation choices: organic investment versus acquisitions versus balance sheet moves
• Assemble board materials and investor reporting for venture and growth equity stakeholders
• Embed with Operations, Sales, and Engineering to bring financial discipline into cross-functional decisions

Skills

Financial modeling

Strategic finance

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance/economics/accounting

MBA or advanced finance degree

Tools

FP&A tools Mosaic

FP&A tools Pigment

FP&A tools Adaptive

Job description

Strategic Finance Manager | Advanced Manufacturing Startup (Large Equity Stake) | Greater Los Angeles

Our client is a well-funded, venture-backed deep tech company building next-generation manufacturing technology for industrial applications. The company runs a vertically integrated operation combining R&D and production under one roof and is scaling fast.

This is an strategic finance seat with unusual ownership and direct exposure to leadership and the board. You'll build and run the models behind planning, pricing, and deal activity, and your analysis will feed real decisions rather than sitting in a deck. Ideal for someone out of banking or PE who wants operating-company reps in a high-growth environment.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the keeper of the company's core operating model: three-statement build, bottoms-up budgeting, and rolling re-forecasts spanning every business unit
• Turn monthly and quarterly actuals into sharp, board-ready narrative: where results landed versus plan and prior year, and why
• Model unit economics and pricing at the customer and product level, running scenarios and sensitivities that inform commercial strategy
• Take the analytical lead on deal work: valuation (DCF, LBO), synergy cases, accretion/dilution, and tracking integration performance
• Translate the company's strategic roadmap into a documented 3-to-5-year financial plan with clearly flagged assumptions and risks
• Evaluate joint ventures and partnerships, building the economic models, return waterfalls, and term sheet analysis behind them
• Help leadership weigh capital allocation choices: organic investment versus acquisitions versus balance sheet moves
• Assemble board materials and investor reporting for venture and growth equity stakeholders
• Embed with Operations, Sales, and Engineering to bring financial discipline into cross-functional decisions

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, or related field
• 2+ years in investment banking, private equity, or strategic finance at a high-growth company
• Operating-company exposure to budgeting, variance analysis, and financial reporting

Nice to Haves

• MBA or advanced finance degree
• Exceptional modeling skills; fluent in Excel with large, assumption-driven data
• PE or growth equity experience, especially at the portfolio company level
• Background in manufacturing, hardware, or deep tech
• FP&A tooling experience (Mosaic, Pigment, Adaptive, or similar)
• Builder mentality; no task too big or small

Details

• Compensation ranging from $140K to $175K base plus an attractive equity stake, commensurate with experience
• Full benefits: 100% employer-paid medical/dental/vision, life insurance, 401(k), generous parental leave