# Senior Manager, FP&A -Strategic Finance

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000 - $210,000 a year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're building advanced autonomous systems for defence and commercial markets. Scaling a business like this requires world-class financial modelling, a deep understanding of how complex hardware + software companies create value, and the ability to turn complexity into clarity.

We're hiring a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance to be the VP of FP&A's analytical right-hand and the architect of our long-range financial model. You excel at building dynamic, accurate, scalable 3-statement models grounded in unit economics and operational drivers. You've lived in Excel,investment banking, PE, hedge funds, equity research,and you bring a forward-looking mindset around leveraging cloud tools, automation, and analytics to elevate what modelling can do.

This is the analytical engine of Strategic Finance, with a natural path to Investor Relations as the company scales.

### Responsibilities:

- Build the Company's Strategic Financial Model

- Own and build the fully integrated 3-statement model based on unit economics, KPIs, and industry benchmarks

- Lead the long-range plan (LRP) and multi-scenario modelling

- Tie operational drivers,production ramps, R&D, contract timing, GTM,to financial outcomes

- Build valuation frameworks, sensitivities, and investor-grade outputs

- Maintain a forward-looking view on risks, opportunities, and strategic drivers

- Digitise & Scale the Modelling Infrastructure:

- Partner with data engineering and systems teams to evolve models from Excel to modern cloud-based planning tools

- Build modular, scalable structures where Excel is used only for high-value analysis

- Use analytics and automation to reduce manual modelling and increase clarity

- Analyse the Business Like an Investor:

- Benchmark peers in defence, autonomy, robotics, aerospace, and industrial tech

- Build competitor profiles, KPI benchmarks, and market analyses

- Develop a POV on unit economics, efficiency, scale, and profitability

- Support M&A modelling, valuation, and diligence

- Provide clear, strategic insights,not just numbers

- Lead Cash Flow & Liquidity Modelling (with Corporate Finance):

- Build rolling cash forecasts across working capital, inventory, milestone payments, and CapEx

- Model hardware cycles, government payment timing, and program cash curves

- Identify liquidity risks early and shape capital allocation decisions

- Partner Across the Company:

- Work directly with the VP FP&A, CFO, and CEO on forward-looking financial questions

- Translate engineering, program, and operations plans into financial impacts

- Connect short-term forecasting to the LRP

- Present insights that drive decisions and accelerate execution

### Requirements:

- Analytical athlete with elite attention to detail

- Clear, structured thinker with strong modelling intuition

- Fast, accurate, and comfortable under pressure

- Curious and forward-looking,always asking “why?”

- Strong communicator who elevates decision quality

- Mission-driven and energised by complex, meaningful problems

### Qualifications:

- 8+ years in investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, equity research, or elite financial services

- Best-in-class Excel modeller: integrated 3-statement models, valuations, sensitivities, unit economics, scenario analysis

- Experience analysing defence, aerospace, autonomy, robotics, industrial tech, or HW/SW companies

- Strong command of unit economics and driver-based forecasting

- Experience building LRPs and enterprise valuation frameworks

- Deep cash flow and liquidity modelling expertise

- High proficiency with financial statements and GAAP mechanics

- Systems mindset,comfortable partnering with data/systems teams

- Thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments

### Preferred Qualifications:

- Familiarity with government contract economics and milestone-based revenue

- M&A experience: modelling, valuation, diligence

- Exposure to manufacturing scale, supply chain, and hardware production cycles

- Data fluency: dashboards, financial databases, or BI tools

## Skills

### Required
- Excel
- Financial modelling
- Unit economics
- Scenario analysis
- Valuation
- Sensitivity analysis
- Cash flow modelling
- Liquidity modelling
- GAAP mechanics
- Data analysis
- Business intelligence

### Nice to have
- Government contract economics
- M&A experience
- Manufacturing scale
- Supply chain management
- Hardware production cycles
- Data fluency

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