Strategic Finance Analyst

The role

You will own forecasting, modeling, and cash management to build the financial backbone of Kalshi. You will support investor reporting, fundraising, and cross-functional planning by translating complex data into financial insights.

What you will do

• Build and maintain detailed financial models for budgets, forecasts, and scenario planning
• Analyze business performance and key metrics across revenue, expenses, and margins
• Partner with product, growth, and operations teams to gather inputs and validate assumptions
• Prepare materials and analyses for investor updates, board meetings, and fundraising rounds
• Translate complex financial data into clear, compelling narratives for external stakeholders
• Manage cash forecasting and runway analysis to ensure alignment with company growth goals
• Monitor spend against budget and identify opportunities for efficiency
• Conduct research on market trends, competitors, and comparable metrics to inform strategic decisions
• Build models to assess new market opportunities or business lines
• Work closely with internal teams to extract, clean, and interpret financial and operational data

Required qualifications

• Comfortable owning and building models end-to-end, from assumptions to insights
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Solid command of Excel / Google Sheets
• Clear communicator who can collaborate across technical, operational, and leadership teams
• A self-starter with curiosity, structure, and a builder’s mindset
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability

Nice to have

• SQL or BI tools
• Past experience at top investment bank or management consulting or PE firm

Benefits

• equity
• benefits

About the company

Kalshi has defined a new category of prediction markets. The company allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset.