Strategic Finance Manager

Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use customize and build on. We build open models that let anyone control their intelligence and help shape the future of AI. Our mission: make intelligence open and accessible to all.

Role Overview

As a Strategic Finance Manager youll help build the core muscles of our capital allocation forecasting and planning processes. Youll work across the business spanning GTM compute R&D and corporate finance building models and analyses that inform how we allocate resources evaluate opportunities and plan for growth. The work will vary depending on where you focus but the common thread is connecting ground-level business activity to rigorous financial thinking.

What Youll Do

• Build financial models across a range of contexts deals and partnerships product and channel economics cost structures and investment decisions

• Support the corporate financial model with bottoms-up inputs and maintain that connection as the underlying business evolves

• Partner cross-functionally with sales GTM engineering research and finance leadership to translate business activity into financial frameworks

• Develop cost and investment models (compute infrastructure headcount R&D) to inform resource planning and tradeoff decisions

• Identify financial risks and opportunities early and help structure decisions that balance growth with returns

• Improve the templates assumptions libraries and processes used across the team

What Were Looking For

• Strong financial modeling skills build clean auditable models from scratch

• Experience with deal economics revenue modeling or commercial finance at a technology company

• Comfort with cost-side modeling: you understand how compute headcount and infrastructure costs behave

• Ability to work cross-functionally with sales legal and product without losing rigor

• Detail-oriented and intellectually curious

• Effective communicator; ability to explain model assumptions to non-finance stakeholders

• Investment banking consulting or FP&A backgrounds

We believe that to make intelligence open and accessible to all you need to start at the foundation. Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a talent-dense team. You will help define our future as a company and help define the future of open foundational models.

We want you to do the most impactful work of your career with the confidence that you and the people you care about most are supported.

• Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.

• Stock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflections success gets to share in the upside through stock options.

• Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical dental vision and life with an annual wellness allowance.

• Meals: Lunch and dinner are provided in the office daily.

• Life & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents including adoptive and surrogate journeys.

• Vacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.

• Sponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.

• Team building: We have regular off-sites happy hours and team celebrations.

Export Control Notice: This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Any offer of employment for this role may be conditioned on the Companys ability to provide the candidate with access to such technology or source code in compliance with applicable U.S. export control laws which may require the Company to seek government authorization.

Required Experience:

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