Strategic Finance Manager

The mandate

Sit beside the CFO of a 15 billion company. Find the problems that matter. Build the case. Drive the change.

IFS is approaching 2 billion in revenue and growing more than 20% a year because we bet earlier and harder on industrial AI than anyone in our category. EQT Hg TA Associates ADIA and CPP Investments didnt fund incremental software growth. They funded a thesis: the companies that build and run the physical world will run on agentic AI and on IFS.

That thesis generates real decisions on capital on structure on where the business is and isnt working every quarter. This role exists to find the friction frame the question and drive the answer through to something that actually changes.

What youll own

• Answer the unowned questions. Build or buy Enter this vertical at what cost for what return Where is margin actually made and lost How far can AI rewire our own cost base You scope each from a blank page and return with a recommendation that holds up in the room.
• Identify whats broken and drive it to fixed. Youll carry two or three major cross-functional initiatives at any time not as a contributor but as the owner. That means diagnosing the real problem aligning the right people across the business and holding accountability for the output. This isnt advisory work. The change happens or it doesnt and thats on you.
• Build the case and present it. Long-range plan M&A and partnership analyses capital allocation board and investor materials. Youll own the model and the story it tells and youll be in the room as its argued exposure to the board shareholders and prospective investors that most people wait a decade for.
• Reinvent how the work gets done. We run on bleeding-edge technology agentic AI automated modelling real-time data and we expect you to push it further. Find whats slow or wrong in how we forecast report and decide and rebuild it. This team should be the proof of what an AI-native finance org looks like and you should be the one inventing it.

Why its rare

Youll work directly with the CFO of a 15B company at the moment it reshapes itself around industrial AI in the room with the board and investors close enough to move the decisions early enough to build a foundation almost no one gets. Real questions real stakes answers that change what the company does. For the right person this isnt a job its the experience that defines a career.

Qualifications :

Who were hiring

Were hiring for one thing above all: the ability to take a question youve never seen with messy data and real money riding on it and make real progress in hours. You break problems down find the load-bearing assumption and pressure-test your own logic before anyone else can.

Youll also bring:

• Force of personality. You move people and things. You dont wait for permission to own a problem and you dont let organisational drag become an excuse for inaction.
• Crazy ambition. Youre not here for a tidy career step. You want to build something that matters at a scale most people never touch and youre impatient to start.
• A builders instinct in an AI world. You dont just use the new tools you invent with them. You see where agentic AI changes whats possible and you go make it real.
• Quantitative intuition. Fluent in the numbers and faster to sense when one is wrong. You reason from first principles not from a model you dont understand.
• Clarity under ambiguity. You hold open-ended problems without freezing and land the answer crisply to people making nine-figure calls.
• Judgment. Your analysis stays honest when the answer is inconvenient and discreet when its sensitive.
• You do not need finance experience. No finance degree no FP&A no banking no specific tool. Well teach you the finance. We cant teach the thinking so we dont try.

This is the same problem set you solved at the partners side on a BCG McKinsey or Bain case team except you own the recommendation you live with the outcome and youre not handing the deck to someone else to execute. Consultants bankers investors founders engineers and standout generalists have all thrived here. The common thread is horsepower not pedigree.

Levelling

• Analyst (04 yrs): own analyses and models end-to-end with senior guidance and scale your scope fast.
• Manager (48 yrs): own whole decision areas and cross-functional projects set the approach and partner directly with the CFO.

Experience matters less than the thinking. Unsure which you are Apply well figure it out together

Additional Information :

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community we drive innovation strengthen connections and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Department / Functional Area: Finance
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1