Manager, Strategic Finance

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Serve Robotics is an urban delivery enterprise that develops sidewalk robots to perform commercial deliveries for merchants and customers across several major metropolitan areas. The company is currently hiring a Manager, Strategic Finance to lead capital allocation, financial planning, and high-level decision analysis. Operating as a key advisor to executive leadership, this position manages the budgeting process, drives strategic investments, and builds multi-year forecasts using the Pigment platform. This position…

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Responsibilities

• Manage strategic prioritization by quantifying trade-offs, resource needs, and expected returns for leadership decision-making
• Oversee capital budgeting and investment analysis by building scenario, sensitivity, NPV, IRR, and payback models
• Calculate market opportunities and target sizes including TAM, SAM, adoption curves, and unit economics
• Construct and maintain sum-of-the-parts valuations to guide portfolio and pricing strategies
• Build financial models for M&A, partnerships, and commercial agreements while tracking post-deal performance
• Formulate and update the long-range strategic plan by translating company strategy into multi-year financial forecasts
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators and unit-economics frameworks tied to the financial model
• Create and deliver executive presentations and financial narratives for board reviews and leadership meetings
• Direct the company operating budget, rolling forecasts, and variance analysis cycles in partnership with Accounting
• Maintain Pigment as the primary planning system and enterprise source of truth

Requirements

• Possess six to eight or more years of progressive experience in strategic finance, corporate finance, investment banking, corporate development, or FP&A
• Demonstrate hands-on ownership of strategic finance tasks such as capital budgeting, market sizing, valuation, and partnership modeling
• Show proven capability in building and defending multi-year financial models before executives, boards, or investors
• Exhibit expert-level proficiency in Google Sheets and Excel for complex modeling and automation
• Bring hands-on experience using Pigment or a comparable enterprise planning platform
• Maintain a solid grasp of accounting principles, financial statements, and ERP systems such as NetSuite

Qualifications

• Background in management consulting, venture capital, private equity, or corporate development
• Experience working in robotics, hardware, healthcare technology, or other capital-intensive operating environments
• Prior people-management experience or a demonstrated readiness to build and lead a small team
• Hold an MBA, CFA, or CPA credential

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