Strategic Finance Specialist - Expert

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian is 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.

In this role you'll build business cases with NPV and IRR, perform capital allocations, run scenario analyses, assess pricing and margins, and deliver market sizing and cost savings analyses.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in strategic finance, corporate strategy, or corporate planning inside an operating company.

Responsibilities

• Build business cases and investment appraisals with NPV, IRR and payback.
• Produce capital allocation determinations ranking investments against hurdle rates.
• 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

NPV/IRR analysis

Pricing strategy

Capital allocation

Market sizing

Unit economics

Job description

About the workWe'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.

Nine 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.

AssessmentA 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.