Growth Finance Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Drive strategic project work spanning transactions, capital markets activities, market research, new business model evaluations, and other business critical initiatives
• Develop and own dynamic financial models and analyses
• Create and present high-quality Exec and Board-facing presentations
• Collaborate with internal cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Legal to ensure to ensure alignment on financial goals and performance
• Serve as a partner to FP&A, aligning Special Projects and M&A models with broader corporate financial and business reporting activities
• Build complex financial models from a blank page, including cash flow forecasting and scenario analysis
• Carry ambiguous, cross-functional work all the way to a decision without being managed to it
• Compress a complex analysis into a recommendation a senior leader can act on immediately

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or related field
• 5-8 years in progressive Investment Banking, Private Equity, Corporate Development, Venture Capital, Hedge Fund experience
• Familiarity with A&D and advanced-manufacturing markets and the players in them.
• Prior PE, banking, corp dev, or VC experience, ideally in industrials, defense, or deep tech, or experience working inside a scaling manufacturing or hardware-focused company.
• Technical experience in an engineering capacity working on complex products such as aerospace & defense, medical devices, automotive, oil & gas, power
• Exposure to project finance and large-scale capital investment analysis (facility buildouts, infrastructure, capex-heavy programs).
• Experience drafting materials in deal negotiations (e.g., commercial contracts, term sheets, partnership proposals) with high attention to detail.
• Working knowledge of defense contracting and government cost accounting (FAR, CAS, DCAA, contract types) and how they shape deal economics.