Strategic Finance Associate
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Job Location:
Redwood City, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Solace is a healthcare advocacy marketplace that connects patients and families to experts who help them understand and take charge of their personal health
About the Role
As a Strategic Finance Associate at Solace youll be the finance teams high-output utility player. Youll be the one we trust to take ambiguous high-priority problems and turn them into clean answers shipped deliverables and real momentum. One week youre building a model to evaluate a new initiative. The next youre tightening reporting for investors. Then youre partnering with operations to diagnose a unit economics drift that nobody else has fully clocked yet.
Yyoull support whatever the finance org needs most and youll learn the business faster than you thought was possible because youll be in the middle of everything.
This individual contributor role is for the ambitious the curious and those who dont shy away from feedback. This is a unique opportunity as an early Strategic Finance hire with direct visibility to our CFO.
This job is a hybrid role with the in-office portion in Redwood City CA 3 days a week.
About Solace
Healthcare in the U.S. is fundamentally broken. The system is so complex that 88% of U.S. adults do not have the health literacy necessary to navigate it without help. Solace cuts through the red tape of healthcare by pairing patients with expert advocates and giving them the tools to make better decisionsand get better outcomes.
Were a Series B startup founded in 2022 and backed by Inspired Capital Craft Ventures Torch Capital Menlo Ventures and Signalfire. Our U.S. team is lean mission-driven and growing quickly.
Solace isnt a place to coast. Were here to redefine healthcareand that demands urgency precision and heart. If youre looking to stretch yourself sharpen your edge and do the best work of your life alongside a team that cares deeply youre in the right place. Were intense and we like it that way.
Read more in our Wall Street Journal funding announcement here.
What Youll Do
Your work will be wide-ranging and it will matter. Expect variety speed and real ownership.
Strategic Analysis & Modeling: Build models to evaluate new products pricing partnerships and operational initiatives. Translate messy assumptions into clear outputs and decision-ready recommendations.
Finance Special Projects: Take on whatever is highest priority across the finance orgad hoc analysis process fixes investor asks diligence support and internal tooling. If its important and time-sensitive its probably yours.
Performance & KPI Reporting: Help maintain the reporting cadence across key business metricsrevenue gross margin unit economics burn/runway and operational performance. Improve signal quality and reduce noise.
Cross-Functional Problem Solving: Partner with leaders across Solace to answer questions like: Whats driving this trend Whats the tradeoff Whats the simplest plan that actually works
Board & Investor Support: Support board materials investor updates and fundraising/diligence workflows. Ensure the data is clean the story is coherent and the answers are tight.
Accounting & Close Partnership: Work alongside our outsourced accounting firm and internal stakeholders to support close-related requests reporting integrity and clean handoffs between accounting and finance.
Automation & Systems: Build lightweight automation into finance workflows. Reduce manual work. Increase accuracy. Make repeatable processes feel inevitable.
Bring innovative ideasand bring them to life.
Be autonomous. Youll own your work end-to-end take responsibility for details and follow through without being chased.
Rapidly produce and launch concepts while laughing in the face of potential failure.
What You Bring to the Table
A bias toward action and execution. You dont work on thingsyou finish them.
Comfort with ambiguity and a refined palate for controlled chaos. You can walk into a fuzzy problem and leave with a crisp output.
Strong analytical skills. Youre excellent in spreadsheets rigorous with numbers and thoughtful about assumptions.
Great communication. You can write clearly summarize cleanly and present an answer without hiding behind jargon.
High ownership and low ego. Youll do the unglamorous work when needed and youll do it well.
No job too big or too small.
2 years of relevant experience in Investment Banking Consulting Private Equity corporate strategy or Strategic Finance at a high-performance startup (or equivalent).
Applicants must be based in the United States.
Up for the Challenge
We look forward to meeting you.
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Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Financial Services
- Financial Concepts
- Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Analysis Skills
- Securities Law
- Investment Banking
- Microsoft Excel
- Private equity
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Planning
