Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

Chainalysis

$125K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6-9 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate finance, FP&A, or a similar analytical role.
  • Exceptional executive presentation skills to convey complex concepts clearly to C-level leaders.
  • Strong business intuition linking financial outcomes with operational drivers.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and make informed decisions with incomplete data.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset to define and advance the strategic finance function.
  • Proficient in high-level financial modeling with large data sets in Excel and Google Sheets.
  • Preferred experience in SaaS, data, or technology companies, with blockchain/crypto knowledge as a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Lead valuation assessments and total addressable market (TAM) analyses while conducting market research.
  • Examine existing pricing and packaging models; understand market pricing trends related to AI and consumption.
  • Enhance and maintain the company's long-range financial model to evaluate financial impacts of strategic choices.
  • Create complex financial models and perform scenario analyses to guide capital allocation, including M&A and partnerships.
  • Synthesize scenario outcomes into executive-ready recommendations for senior leadership.
  • Advise senior leaders on significant strategic decisions, considering their long-term impacts.
  • Collaborate with teams to ensure operational feasibility of strategic initiatives and implement necessary operational changes.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of blockchain analytics and AI innovation.
  • High visibility and impact as part of a critical growth phase.
  • Access to proprietary data and regulatory relationships in the crypto sector.
  • Collaborative environment that promotes creativity and innovation in strategic finance.
  • Emphasis on career development and personal ownership of projects.
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Manager of Strategic Finance to join our Finance team at a critical inflection point in the company's growth. Reporting directly to the VP Head of Finance, you will be a key thought partner to senior leadership - supporting our long-term financial model, evaluating growth opportunities, driving capital allocation decisions, creating comprehensive pricing analyses, and building the analytical frameworks that guide how we invest across the business. The position blends rigorous analytics with clear executive communication and strong stakeholder management. It is a high-visibility, high-impact individual contributor role. You will work closely with the CFO, Finance leadership, and leadership throughout the Company on our most consequential strategic decisions. In this role, you will: Lead valuation work and TAM analyses and market research. Drive overall market analyses and competitive intelligence analyses - Analyze current pricing and packaging models. Develop a deep understanding of market pricing trends related to AI and consumption. Learn the nuances of our public and private sectors, geographies, products, segments, etc. in and influence our pricing strategy - Enhance and own the company's long-range financial model. Understand key business and industry drivers to build dynamic models that allow leadership to rapidly evaluate the financial impact of strategic decisions. Lead sensitivity analysis around macro factors relevant to the blockchain/crypto industry - Scale the model and build it into our planning tool - Create sophisticated financial models, and drive scenario analyses that inform major capital allocation decisions, including M&A, partnerships, and new market entry. - Synthesize scenario outputs into clear, executive-ready narratives and recommendations - Track post-investment performance against underwriting assumptions and surface learnings back into the planning process - Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on high-stakes questions. Understand the long-term impact of near-term decisions in order to make recommendations to leadership and the executive team - Be operationally savvy. Understand the operational impacts of strategic work, and partner with the business to ensure suggestions are operationally feasible. Assist with the implementation of operational changes resulting from strategic decisions What you need: - 6-9 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate finance, FP&A, or a similar analytical role - Strong executive presentation skills - an ability to clearly and succinctly present complex topics to a C-level audience. Possess an investor mindset; ability to synthesize complex business dynamics into clear investment theses and risk-adjusted recommendations - Strong business intuition - you connect financial outcomes to operational drivers and can tell the story behind the numbers - Comfortable operating with ambiguity and making high-quality decisions with incomplete information - Entrepreneurial orientation: eager to define and develop the strategic finance function, not just execute within it - Excellent financial modeling skills, including the ability to work with large data sets in both Excel and Google Sheets - Experience working at a SaaS, data, or technology company preferred. Familiarity with the blockchain, crypto, or Web3 industry is a strong plus but not required AI at Chainalysis AI is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working. One that turns instructions into work done, and helps us move faster than the threats we're built to counter, and we expect our employees to take ownership of the output and ensure quality. As the world's most trusted blockchain analytics platform, Chainalysis sits at a rare intersection of proprietary data, regulatory relationships and crypto expertise that makes it uniquely placed to shape and lead the next era of AI-driven intelligence - and we expect everyone here, regardless of role, to be an active part of it. AI fluency is tied directly to how we measure performance and how we plan to win. There is no substitute for your own curiosity. We provide the tools, workflows, and space to experiment - but the expectation is that you develop these capabilities yourself, bring ideas, and collaborate across teams to reinvent the way work gets done. We are not using AI to do less. We are using it to do what was never possible before.

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