Finance Operator

The role

You will partner with the CFO's team and company leaders on high-priority strategic initiatives and sensitive, highly visible matters. The work covers a range of corporate and business issues, including transactions, investments, governance and operations.

What you will do

• Partner with the CFO's team and company leaders on high-priority strategic initiatives and sensitive, highly visible matters.
• Provide practical judgment and strategic support across a range of corporate and business issues.
• Help assess complex or ambiguous situations, identify options and risks, and drive decisions and execution.
• Coordinate cross-functional work with Finance and other teams, as well as external advisors.
• Work on projects that may include corporate transactions, investments, governance matters and operations.
• Take on new challenges and responsibilities as the company's needs evolve.
• Travel significantly.

Required qualifications

• A law degree.
• Experience practicing law in-house, at a law firm, or in a similarly demanding environment.
• Strong judgment and the ability to apply it pragmatically to business decisions.
• Resourcefulness and a willingness to take on work wherever it is most needed, including matters outside a defined specialty.
• The ability to navigate ambiguity, set priorities, and carry complex, multi-step projects through to completion.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across teams and with senior leaders.
• Sound judgment, discretion, and composure when handling sensitive or high-pressure matters.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel as business needs require.

Nice to have

• Experience in investment banking, corporate environments, consulting, accounting, or other finance related roles.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus voluntary life insurance.
• Basic life, AD&D and disability insurance, automatically covered.
• Commuter benefits.
• Relocation assistance.
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based.
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year, subject to team and business needs.
• 10 paid holidays per calendar year.
• Leave of absence program, including military service and medical events.
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents.
• Fertility and family building benefits, including adoption, surrogacy, and preservation.
• Stipend for expenses that come with a new child.
• 401k plan.

Before you apply

• Palantir will never ask you to submit a payment or share financial information during the interview process.

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations. Its platforms help partners develop drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, and locate missing children.