Strategic Finance Manager, Corporate
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Overview
Job Description
We are building the Finance team to help make data-driven and financially sound decisions for Scale. The team is responsible for improving strategic, financial, and operational decisions by partnering with the leadership team in making critical decisions across Scale. The Corporate Finance team is responsible for owning the company’s budget, helping to drive monthly forecasts and annual planning processes, allocating and deploying the company’s resources efficiently, and performing financial analyses in partnership with all departments. As AI reshapes the competitive landscape, Corporate Finance sits at the center of decisions about where Scale invests, how quickly we scale, and which bets we make. You will have a unique opportunity to work closely with department heads on real-time, high-priority business issues and use quantitative insights to drive better decision making across Scale. The ideal candidate will not only have the technical skills to support their recommendations but also strong interpersonal skills to manage various stakeholders. What You’ll Do
- Provide analysis to support short and long-term decisions regarding workforce planning across the company.
- Own tools (such as the company's workforce planning system, TeamOhana) to automate and streamline reporting and headcount processes
- Partner cross-functionally with HR, Recruiting, Compensation, and Analytics teams to drive scalable analyses and insights. Define and maintain KPIs to measure impact on strategic initiatives and resource allocation.
- Manage the development, implementation, and administration of our financial forecasting system (Pigment)
- Partner with finance and accounting to drive process improvements (e.g. month-end close and reporting)
- Implement enhancements to forecasting tools, processes, and reporting deliverables that reduce manual work and improve data integration
- Support management, Board business, and financial planning, including presentations and key analysis requests
- Help execute financial strategies to support Scale growth objectives, including strategic and financial planning, and budgeting
Qualifications
- 4+ years of financial analysis experience working directly in Corporate Finance or Strategic Finance
- Experience with financial forecasting tools (e.g. Pigment, Adaptive, Anaplan). Bonus for hands-on experience during the implementation process.
- 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; expert Excel modeling skills
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to optimize financial processes, reporting, or forecasting efficiency
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 and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, 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, Ernst& Young, 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.
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