Strategic Finance Manager
Scale AI
Strategic Finance Manager
Job Description
We are building out the Finance team to help make data-driven and financially sound decisions for Scale. The Finance team drives strategic, financial, and operational decisions by partnering with the leadership team to make critical decisions across Scale.
The Finance team is responsible for owning the company’s budget, driving quarterly and annual planning processes, allocating the company’s resources efficiently, and performing financial analyses to drive key decisions. In this role, you will have a unique opportunity to work closely
Finance leadership across a variety of strategic initiatives and cross functional finance workstreams. The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills to support recommendations coupled with strong interpersonal skills to manage various stakeholders. We hope you'll join us!
You will:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate business cases and financial impact of strategic initiatives.
- Help prepare board and investor presentation materials, and executive summaries on financial performance and outlook.
- Monitor key performance indicators, financial metrics, and cash flow performance
- Spearhead the long-range planning process in partnership with the business unit finance teams and other key stakeholders.
Ideally, you'd have:
- 3-4 years of financial analysis experience working directly in a Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance
- 1-2 years of investment banking experience
- Demonstrated excellent project management skills, ability to manage and manipulate large data sets, critically analyze existing processes, and identify opportunities for process improvement
- Strong knowledge of Google Suite, and MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); expert Excel modeling skills
Nice to haves:
- A Bachelor’s degree with a major in finance or accounting
- Experience in SQL and Business Intelligence tools a plus
- Experience with Anaplan and/or Adaptive Insights a plus
Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.
PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.
About Us:
At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.
We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.
PLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest and sharing with our affiliates. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants’ needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data. Please see our privacy policy for additional information.
Locations
- San Francisco, CA,
Salary
Salary details available upon request
140,000 - 220,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- strong technical skillsintermediate
- strong interpersonal skillsintermediate
- project management skillsintermediate
- ability to manage and manipulate large data setsintermediate
- critically analyze existing processesintermediate
- identify opportunities for process improvementintermediate
- Strong knowledge of Google Suiteintermediate
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)intermediate
- expert Excel modeling skillsintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 3-4 years of financial analysis experience working directly in a Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance (experience)
- 1-2 years of investment banking experience (experience)
- Demonstrated excellent project management skills, ability to manage and manipulate large data sets, critically analyze existing processes, and identify opportunities for process improvement (experience)
- Strong knowledge of Google Suite, and MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); expert Excel modeling skills (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree with a major in finance or accounting (experience)
- Experience in SQL and Business Intelligence tools a plus (experience)
- Experience with Anaplan and/or Adaptive Insights a plus (experience)
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate business cases and financial impact of strategic initiatives.
- Help prepare board and investor presentation materials, and executive summaries on financial performance and outlook.
- Monitor key performance indicators, financial metrics, and cash flow performance
- Spearhead the long-range planning process in partnership with the business unit finance teams and other key stakeholders.
Benefits
- general: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- general: retirement benefits
- general: a learning and development stipend
- general: generous PTO
- general: a commuter stipend
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Strategic Finance Manager
Scale AI
Strategic Finance Manager
Job Description
We are building out the Finance team to help make data-driven and financially sound decisions for Scale. The Finance team drives strategic, financial, and operational decisions by partnering with the leadership team to make critical decisions across Scale.
The Finance team is responsible for owning the company’s budget, driving quarterly and annual planning processes, allocating the company’s resources efficiently, and performing financial analyses to drive key decisions. In this role, you will have a unique opportunity to work closely
Finance leadership across a variety of strategic initiatives and cross functional finance workstreams. The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills to support recommendations coupled with strong interpersonal skills to manage various stakeholders. We hope you'll join us!
You will:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate business cases and financial impact of strategic initiatives.
- Help prepare board and investor presentation materials, and executive summaries on financial performance and outlook.
- Monitor key performance indicators, financial metrics, and cash flow performance
- Spearhead the long-range planning process in partnership with the business unit finance teams and other key stakeholders.
Ideally, you'd have:
- 3-4 years of financial analysis experience working directly in a Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance
- 1-2 years of investment banking experience
- Demonstrated excellent project management skills, ability to manage and manipulate large data sets, critically analyze existing processes, and identify opportunities for process improvement
- Strong knowledge of Google Suite, and MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); expert Excel modeling skills
Nice to haves:
- A Bachelor’s degree with a major in finance or accounting
- Experience in SQL and Business Intelligence tools a plus
- Experience with Anaplan and/or Adaptive Insights a plus
Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You’ll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.
PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.
About Us:
At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.
We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.
PLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest and sharing with our affiliates. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants’ needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data. Please see our privacy policy for additional information.
Locations
- San Francisco, CA,
Salary
Salary details available upon request
140,000 - 220,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- strong technical skillsintermediate
- strong interpersonal skillsintermediate
- project management skillsintermediate
- ability to manage and manipulate large data setsintermediate
- critically analyze existing processesintermediate
- identify opportunities for process improvementintermediate
- Strong knowledge of Google Suiteintermediate
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)intermediate
- expert Excel modeling skillsintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 3-4 years of financial analysis experience working directly in a Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance (experience)
- 1-2 years of investment banking experience (experience)
- Demonstrated excellent project management skills, ability to manage and manipulate large data sets, critically analyze existing processes, and identify opportunities for process improvement (experience)
- Strong knowledge of Google Suite, and MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); expert Excel modeling skills (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree with a major in finance or accounting (experience)
- Experience in SQL and Business Intelligence tools a plus (experience)
- Experience with Anaplan and/or Adaptive Insights a plus (experience)
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate business cases and financial impact of strategic initiatives.
- Help prepare board and investor presentation materials, and executive summaries on financial performance and outlook.
- Monitor key performance indicators, financial metrics, and cash flow performance
- Spearhead the long-range planning process in partnership with the business unit finance teams and other key stakeholders.
Benefits
- general: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- general: retirement benefits
- general: a learning and development stipend
- general: generous PTO
- general: a commuter stipend
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