Strategic Finance Associate

The role

You will support financial models for planning cycles, assist with M&A and partnership activity, and work alongside leadership as an analytical contributor. This role involves managing integrated financial models, variance analysis, and long-range financial planning.

What you will do

• Own and maintain the company's fully integrated financial model
• Lead monthly and quarterly variance analysis
• Build and maintain customer and product-level pricing models
• Lead financial modeling for M&A opportunities
• Own the long-range financial plan
• Support structuring and evaluation of joint ventures and strategic partnerships
• Drive capital allocation frameworks across the business
• Prepare board materials, investor reporting, and ad hoc analyses
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Sales, and Engineering

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, or related field
• 2+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or a strategic finance role at a high-growth company
• Experience with variance analysis, budgeting, and financial reporting in an operating company context

Nice to have

• MBA or advanced degree in finance or business
• Exceptional financial modeling skills
• Strong command of Excel; comfortable working with large, complex datasets and building dynamic, assumption-driven models
• Private equity or growth equity experience, particularly at the portfolio company level
• Experience working in a manufacturing, deep tech, or hardware-intensive business
• Experience with financial planning tools (Mosaic, Pigment, Adaptive, or similar)
• “No job too big or small” mindset — willing to roll up sleeves and build from zero

Benefits

• Significant stock option packages
• 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Traditional and Roth 401(k)
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and company holidays
• Generous Paid Parental Leave and extended transition back to work for the birthing parent
• Free daily catered lunch and dinner, and fully stocked kitchenette
• Casual dress, flexible work hours, and regular catered team building events

About the company

Freeform builds AI-native manufacturing systems that unify software, hardware, and physics to produce industrial-scale parts. They operate a vertically integrated facility in Hawthorne.