Strategic Finance Manager – Forecasting & Growth

Hopper; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Carrot Cash travel stipend

Work-from-home stipend

Co-working space access

Parental leave

Job summary

Hopper is seeking a Finance & Strategy Manager to partner with business leaders, building models behind forecasts and strategic plans, and turning analysis into actionable recommendations for senior leadership and the CFO.

This role emphasizes hands-on financial modeling, scenario analysis, and partnering on deals, budgets, and long-range planning, using SQL and AI tools to automate recurring reporting and drive insights.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in investment banking, corporate development, private equity, strategic finance or FP&A.
• Advanced financial modeling skills: three-statement models, DCF, scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• Solid understanding of accounting and how the three financial statements connect.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain financial concepts to non-finance partners and present confidently to senior leaders.
• Working knowledge of SQL, or a demonstrated ability to pick up technical tools quickly.
• Hands-on use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.) to work faster and automate repetitive work.
• Strong ownership, comfort with ambiguity and a builder mindset. Hopper moves fast

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrated financial models, scenario and sensitivity analyses, and business cases for new products, partnerships and investments.
• Evaluate the economics of new commercial agreements (pricing, revenue share, unit economics, ROI) and help shape deal terms with business leaders.
• Support fundraising, M&A and capital allocation decisions, including the models and analysis behind them.
• Own the monthly and quarterly forecast for the areas you support, and contribute to the annual budget and long-range plan by building the driver-based models and inputs that connect operational metrics to P&L outcomes.
• Lead monthly and quarterly reviews of actuals vs. plan and forecast, explain variances, and flag risks and opportunities to business leaders.
• Partner with leadership on high-impact questions such as market sizing, investment prioritization and cost optimization.
• Prepare clear, executive-, board- and investor-ready materials that tell the story behind the numbers.
• Use SQL, BigQuery and AI tools to automate recurring reporting and analysis so the team spends less time handling data and more time on insight

Skills

Financial modeling

SQL

Excel

AI tools

Communication

Builder mindset

Financial analysis

Education

Finance, Economics, Business, Math, Engineering degree

Tools

BigQuery

Claude

ChatGPT

Copilot

Looker

Tableau

Python

Job description

Hopper is seeking a Finance & Strategy Manager to partner with business leaders, building models behind forecasts and strategic plans, and turning analysis into actionable recommendations for senior leadership and the CFO.

This role emphasizes hands-on financial modeling, scenario analysis, and partnering on deals, budgets, and long-range planning, using SQL and AI tools to automate recurring reporting and drive insights.