Strategic Finance Manager, Operations

The role

You will serve as a senior finance partner to Zipline's operations teams. You will own planning and reporting processes to improve financial performance across various operational areas.

What you will do

• Serve as a strategic finance partner to Global Operations leaders.
• Own forecast versus actuals for multiple teams within Operations.
• Lead annual planning and quarterly forecasting and consolidation processes.
• Build and maintain driver-based models for operating forecasts and long-range planning.
• Develop high priority ad hoc analyses and decision models for leadership.
• Partner with operators to understand financial implications of goals and constraints.
• Analyze cost drivers across various operational functions.
• Identify opportunities to improve margin, reduce cost, and increase utilization.
• Build repeatable reporting tools, dashboards, and planning workflows.
• Partner with various departments to improve planning processes and decision making speed.

Required qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in strategic finance, corporate finance, operations finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, consulting, business operations, or another highly analytical role.
• Deep financial modeling experience, including forecasting, scenario analysis, unit economics, P&L analysis, capex and opex planning, investment evaluation, and return-on-investment analysis.
• Strong financial judgment and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Strong business-partnership skills.
• Experience owning forecasting, annual planning, consolidation, variance analysis, and recurring business-performance reviews.
• Comfort working with large datasets and partnering with Data teams.
• Strong communication skills.
• The ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, work with imperfect data, and create structure.
• High ownership, low ego, and strong curiosity.

Nice to have

• Experience with SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Mode, Tableau, Hex, Python, or R
• Experience in hardware, logistics, aviation, robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, fleet operations, healthcare devices, physical infrastructure, or another operations-intensive business

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• Sales incentives
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off

About the company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They operate an autonomous logistics system to deliver food, medicine, and essential goods globally.