Minerva
Strategic Finance Lead
New York City. Posted 22 days ago
The role
You will be the first strategic finance hire working within the operations organization. You will prepare models to guide capital and resource allocation and handle tasks spanning planning, operations, go-to-market, and pricing.
What you will do
- Own the core financial models that guide capital allocation and resource planning.
- Design incentive systems that improve employee performance, retention and satisfaction.
- Design commercial policies that align incentives with customers and build a financial foundation.
- Optimize A/P and A/R policies with Accounting / RevOps.
- Partner with CoS to own board, investor, and internal reporting materials.
- Work with the CEO & CoS to develop operating KPIs and reporting systems.
- Build business cases for strategic decisions including deal structuring, investments, hiring plans, and product launches.
Required qualifications
- 4-7+ years of experience in strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, growth equity, or a similar high-rigor analytical role
- Strong financial modeling skills and the ability to build complex operating models from scratch, including experience with unit economics and cost structure analysis
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward ownership
- Willingness to match or outpace the hours and intensity of the leadership team
- More likely to answer a question by finding the person who has already solved the problem than deriving an answer from first principles
- Willingness to have an opinion and share it
- Enthusiasm for AI and Minerva’s mission
- Extreme agency, candor and rigor
Nice to have
- Corporate development exposure
Before you apply
- Skip the cover letter.
- Send one model you built and the decision it changed: the question, how you structured it, the answer and what happened.
About the company
Minerva builds AI for marketing leaders to automate and accelerate workflows with AI agents. The team brings together operators and investors from firms like Citadel, Dentsu, Bridgewater, Meta, and Amazon.