Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world. Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube. With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change. Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations.
Team: Finance
Location: New York, NY or Surrounding Areas
As part of the Strategic Finance team, you will help scale the financial reporting, analytics, and planning capabilities and empower decision makers across our different businesses and functions. You will play a key role in all aspects of financial reporting and make significant contributions to high-profile strategic and operational initiatives.
About The Role:
As the Associate, Strategic Finance at MrBeast, you’ll help build and scale the planning infrastructure that guides our strategic and operational decisions. Sitting at the intersection of growth, strategy, and performance, this role is critical to driving financial visibility and rigor across the organization. This is a highly cross-functional role, partnering closely with leaders across Finance, Operations, and Executive teams to translate company priorities into structured financial plans.
If you're excited by solving ambiguity, building structure from scratch, and influencing high-impact decisions, this is an opportunity to help shape the financial backbone of one of the most exciting brands in the space.
What you'll be doing:- Own and evolve our strategic finance rhythm, including annual planning, forecasting, monthly reviews, and long-range models.
- Partner with business leaders and finance stakeholders to develop budgets and track performance across revenue and operating costs.
- Lead and improve forecasting accuracy and transparency across teams through strong models and operational processes.
- Drive development of financial frameworks that align investment decisions with strategic priorities.
- Create executive-ready reports and insights that help tell the story of our business, including board and investor materials.
- Build and scale dashboards, planning tools, and systems to support real-time decision making.
- Identify and solve cross-functional planning challenges, helping bridge strategic goals with financial execution.
- Support ad hoc analysis to evaluate new initiatives, business cases, or shifts in operating strategy.
- 4+ years of experience in strategic planning roles, ideally in high-growth or consumer-facing industries. Early Experience in investment banking and/or consulting is highly desirable
- Experience building and managing financial planning processes in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
- Strong modeling and analytical skills, with the ability to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights.
- Track record of collaborating cross-functionally and influencing stakeholders at all levels, including executives.
- Skilled communicator with the ability to simplify complex financial concepts for non-finance audiences.
- Comfortable working through ambiguity and bringing structure to evolving processes.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field;
We are redefining what entertainment and storytelling look like at global scale. Every piece of content we publish reaches millions and influences culture in real time. This is your opportunity to lead the team that decides how those moments come to life across every screen.
- Competitive Salary
- Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance
- Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
- Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
- Company-provided technology package
- Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days
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