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Strategic Finance

Posted 10 Days Ago
In-Office
New York City, NY, USA
160K-180K Annually
Junior
In-Office
New York City, NY, USA
160K-180K Annually
Junior
As a Strategic Finance Associate, you will lead financial modeling, burn management, pricing strategies, and investor reporting to support growth and fundraising efforts.
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About Sent

Sent is an infrastructure for sending A2P messages across SMS, WhatsApp, and RCS through a single unified API. Our intelligent routing model automates channel selection based on deliverability and cost, ensuring lower cost and global reach without any channel-specific integrations.

We recently closed a $5.1M Seed round backed by Companyon Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, UIF, and CEAS Investments. We're hiring to build the best infrastructure to replace multi-channel messaging stacks.

About the Role

We're looking for a Strategic Finance Associate to own financial modeling, burn management, pricing strategy and investor reporting. You'll build the financial infrastructure that carries us from through Series A and beyond: the models, the reporting cadence, the unit economics framework, and the analytical rigor that lets leadership move fast with confidence.

This role is ideal for someone 1–3 years out of an investment banking, consulting, PE/VC, or FP&A analyst seat who wants to move operator-side at a high-growth startup. You should be the person who finds genuine satisfaction in a well-structured model and gets excited about connecting financial data to business strategy.

What You'll Do

  • Build and maintain Sent's financial model: revenue forecasting (usage-based), expense planning, cash flow projections, and scenario analysis

  • Own monthly financial reporting and variance analysis - actuals vs. plan, with clear narratives on what's driving the numbers

  • Develop unit economics and margin analysis by product line (channels: SMS, WhatsApp, RCS), customer segment, and geography

  • Support fundraising prep: investor decks, data room materials, KPI dashboards, and responses to due diligence requests

  • Model pricing and packaging scenarios - Sent has usage-based revenue with carrier cost pass-throughs, so margin analysis gets interesting fast

  • Track burn rate and runway, and flag risks or opportunities to leadership proactively

  • Partner with the Head of GTM on quota modeling, commission structures, and sales capacity planning

  • Analyze vendor spend, headcount costs, and infrastructure expenses to support budgeting decisions

  • Build the reporting cadence and templates that will scale as the company grows: board decks, monthly business reviews, department-level P&Ls

What We're Looking For

  • 1–3 years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, venture capital, private equity, corporate finance, or FP&A, and ideally startup experience outside of institutional finance

  • Exceptional financial modeling skills - you can build a three-statement model from scratch, and your spreadsheets are clean enough that someone else can audit them

  • Strong grasp of SaaS and/or usage-based business metrics: ARR, NDR, gross margin, CAC, LTV, payback period

  • Comfort working with messy or incomplete data: you can make directionally correct decisions without perfect information

  • Clear communication: you can explain a financial concept to a non-finance audience and write a board memo that's concise and actionable

  • Intellectual curiosity about the business, not just the numbers: you want to understand why carrier costs vary by country, not just that they do

  • High ownership and self-direction: you'll be the only finance person, so you need to be comfortable setting your own priorities

Nice to Have

  • Experience with usage-based or consumption pricing models

  • Exposure to 409A valuations, cap table management, or equity administration

  • Proficiency with accounting/finance tools

  • Prior experience at a startup

Our Commitment to You

  • Meaningful equity with high growth potential

  • Top-tier medical, dental, vision fully covered

  • 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%

  • Unlimited PTO

  • Beautiful NYC workspace with daily meals and unlimited snacks

  • New MacBook Pro + Apple Studio Display

  • Fully comped Wellhub Gold or Equinox membership

Sent, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

Top Skills

Accounting/Finance Tools
Excel
Financial Modeling
HQ

Sent New York, New York, USA Office

157 W 18th St, FL 7, New York, New York, United States, 10011

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