Role SummaryAbout the Strategic Finance TeamStrategic Finance is a lean, high-impact team that sits at the center of Rivian's most critical executive decisions.
The team owns Rivian's Long-Range Financial Plan (LRP)-the foundational roadmap connecting corporate ambition with resource requirements and capital strategy. Beyond enterprise planning, the team evaluates major corporate transactions, novel commercial structures, capital allocation decisions, and strategic partnerships. The team has been involved in helping Rivian raise more than $15 billion in capital across equity, debt, joint venture, and strategic partnership transactions, including Rivian's partnership with Uber and its Department of Energy loan program.
Our scope extends across the entire enterprise, partnering with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, Corporate Development, Accounting, and Investor Relations to turn high-level strategy into concrete, auditable plans.
Role SummaryAs a Senior Strategic Finance Analyst, you will take on unstructured, high-stakes financial questions that shape Rivian's financial trajectory. You will lead the development of novel business cases, pressure-test investment economics, and evaluate strategic opportunities with direct visibility to the C-Suite and executive leadership.
This role is designed for a self-directed modeler who combines rigorous financial fundamentals with strong business intuition. You will take ownership of complex projects from end to end-scoping the question, gathering and diligencing assumptions across cross-functional teams, building robust financial frameworks from scratch, and synthesizing recommendations into executive-ready narratives.
Why This Role Matters
- Steward Enterprise Trajectory: Own core components of Rivian's Long-Range Financial Plan (LRP) to align product roadmaps, capacity plans, and multi-year operations with corporate cash runway and capital strategy.
- Architect New Business Cases: Build rigorous financial models from the ground up to evaluate new market entries, technology investments, commercial partnerships, and make-vs-buy decisions.
- Rigorous Cross-Functional Diligence: Partner directly with technical leaders across Engineering, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Operations to diligence assumptions, challenge consensus, and ensure data integrity.
- Shape C-Suite Decisions: Translate multi-layered, multi-scenario financial models into crisp memos and executive presentations that drive rapid decision-making.
- Modernize Financial Workflows: Integrate advanced analytics and modern AI productivity tools to accelerate data synthesis, sensitivity analysis, and scenario iteration.
ResponsibilitiesAs a Senior Strategic Finance Analyst, you will take on unstructured, high-stakes financial questions that shape Rivian's financial trajectory. You will lead the development of novel business cases, pressure-test investment economics, and evaluate strategic opportunities with direct visibility to the C-Suite and executive leadership.
This role is designed for a self-directed modeler who combines rigorous financial fundamentals with strong business intuition. You will take ownership of complex projects from end to end-scoping the question, gathering and diligencing assumptions across cross-functional teams, building robust financial frameworks from scratch, and synthesizing recommendations into executive-ready narratives.
Why This Role Matters
- Steward Enterprise Trajectory: Own core components of Rivian's Long-Range Financial Plan (LRP) to align product roadmaps, capacity plans, and multi-year operations with corporate cash runway and capital strategy.
- Architect New Business Cases: Build rigorous financial models from the ground up to evaluate new market entries, technology investments, commercial partnerships, and make-vs-buy decisions.
- Rigorous Cross-Functional Diligence: Partner directly with technical leaders across Engineering, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Operations to diligence assumptions, challenge consensus, and ensure data integrity.
- Shape C-Suite Decisions: Translate multi-layered, multi-scenario financial models into crisp memos and executive presentations that drive rapid decision-making.
- Modernize Financial Workflows: Integrate advanced analytics and modern AI productivity tools to accelerate data synthesis, sensitivity analysis, and scenario iteration.
What You'll Do
- Build Models from Scratch: Develop dynamic, clean, fully auditable three-statement models, DCFs, and scenario frameworks from zero without existing templates.
- Scope & Diligence Business Cases: Take ambiguous strategic questions, define the problem statement, source data from cross-functional partners, stress-test cost/revenue assumptions, and identify key sensitivity variables.
- Lead Long-Range Plan Workstreams: Maintain and enhance core LRP models, partnering with FP&A, Accounting, and business partners to ensure assumptions align with actual financial reporting and historical baselines.
- Run Scenario & Sensitivity Analyses: Model complex "what-if" trade-offs covering volume variations, cost-down roadmaps, pricing dynamics, and capital-intensity shifts.
- Translate Finance into Action: Synthesize technical and financial complexity into punchy, high-impact executive decks, strategy memos, and board-level materials.
- Drive Cross-Functional Consensus: Serve as the connective tissue across Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Accounting to ensure numbers tie out and strategic initiatives remain financially grounded.
QualificationsRequired Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline.
- 3-4+ years of total experience, ideally starting in Investment Banking or Transaction Advisory (FDD), followed by Strategic Finance, Corporate Development, or Private Equity.
- Advanced Financial Modeling Capabilities: Proven track record of building dynamic 3-statement operating models, returns analyses (IRR/NPV), and complex scenario frameworks from scratch under tight timelines.
- Accounting Foundation: Strong grasp of US GAAP, financial statement mechanics, revenue recognition, and capital accounting to ensure models tie out seamlessly to actuals.
- Strong project management skills, with demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, reconciling conflicting data, and driving consensus.
- Executive Communication: Demonstrated ability to distill nuanced financial outputs into concise written memos and executive slide decks for senior leadership.
- Project Ownership & Influence: Strong interpersonal skill set to independently lead workstreams, run cross-functional meetings, diligence technical assumptions with non-finance teams, and tactfully challenge inputs.
- Passion for the mission: a genuine interest in energy, mobility, and sustainability.
Preferred Qualifications
- AI & Modern Workflow Fluency: Practical experience leveraging frontier AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini) or automated scripting to accelerate research, financial logic checks, and workflow efficiency.
- Platform Exposure: Exposure to modern data warehouses and planning tools (e.g., SAP, Oracle EPM, Databricks) is a plus.
- Sector Familiarity: Prior experience in hardware manufacturing, automotive/EV, clean energy, or deep tech capital investments.
Pay DisclosureThe salary range for this role is USD 117,200 to 146,500 for NorCal-based applicants. This is the lowest-to-highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including but not limited to specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.
The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual performance bonus and equity awards.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits, including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees. You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian's 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part-time employee coverage is effective on the first of the month following 90 days of employment. More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com.
You can apply for this role through careers.rivian.com (or through internal-careers-rivian.icims.com if you are a current employee). This job is not expected to be closed any sooner than July 31, 2027.
