Strategic Finance Specialist - Expert

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor in New York City is seeking a Senior Strategic Finance professional to advance our cost and pricing initiatives. You will build self-contained analyses from mock files and deliver clear recommendations for investment and pricing decisions.

In this role you will develop business cases with NPV/IRR, conduct scenario analyses, and rank capital allocations across the portfolio to support leadership discussions.

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

NPV analysis

IRR analysis

Payback calculations

Capital allocation

Pricing strategy

Scenario analysis

Market sizing

Competitive landscape

Cost baseline & savings

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Financial modeling

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.