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Strategic Finance Manager

  2025-11-03     Scale AI     San Francisco,CA  
Description:

Overview

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 owns the company's budget, drives quarterly and annual planning processes, allocates resources, and performs financial analyses to support key decisions. In this role, you will work closely with finance leadership across 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!

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate business cases and financial impact of strategic initiatives.
  • 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.

Ideal qualifications

  • 5+ years of financial analysis experience in Corporate Finance or Strategic Finance.
  • 2 years of investment banking experience.
  • Demonstrated project management skills, ability to analyze large data sets, and identify opportunities for process improvement.
  • Strong knowledge of Google Suite and MS Office; expert Excel modeling skills.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree with a major in finance or accounting.
  • 2 years of management experience in a corporate finance role.
  • Experience in SQL and Business Intelligence tools.
  • Experience with Anaplan and/or Adaptive Insights.

Compensation and benefits

Compensation packages include base salary, equity, and benefits. The salary range displayed in job postings reflects the minimum and maximum targets for new hire salaries, determined by location and other factors. Equity-based compensation may be granted, subject to Board approval. The specific salary range for your location will be shared by your recruiter during the hiring process, along with eligibility for equity.

The base salary range for this full-time position in San Francisco is $168,000 — $210,000 USD.

Benefits include comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additional benefits such as a commuter stipend may apply.

About us and equal opportunity

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. We work with industry leaders and government partners to accelerate AI applications. We are an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace and commit 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 providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, please contact us at ...@scale.com. See the Know Your Rights poster and Pay Transparency provisions for additional information. We collect and use personal data in line with our privacy policy.

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