Strategic Finance Associate, Shiftsmart
$100-140k
Offers equity
3+ days a week in office
Custome enterprise workforce solutions
Open for applications
Custome enterprise workforce solutions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$100-140k
Offers equity
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To revolutionize hourly work and build the world's leading platform for hourly workers.
Role
Who you are
- Financially & Analytically-minded: You have 2-4+ years experience in a strategic finance, data analytics or business operations role. You possess strong analytical skills and can interpret financial data effectively. This includes analyzing financial statements, conducting variance analysis, and identifying key financial trends and insights
- Technical skills: You have strong analytical skills and can blend quantitative data with qualitative insights to test hypotheses. You are well-versed in Excel and Google Sheets, have knowledge of SQL or are willing to learn and are able to learn new tooling quickly
- Problem solver: You thrive solving complex problems, you quickly learn and adapt to new situations, and can synthesize the abstract into the concrete
- Highly organized: You think in systems and processes, relish bringing structure to ambiguity, ruthlessly prioritize, and feel organization is second nature to you
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: You effectively partner with others to get things done with little executive intervention
What the job involves
- The Strategic Finance team exists to help the company make better, faster decisions about where to invest time and money
- We partner closely with operating teams to turn business activity into clear financial insight - whether that’s pricing new customers, forecasting performance, or understanding profitability at the customer or market level
- By translating operational decisions into P&L impact, this role ensures capital is allocated to the highest-return opportunities and that efficiency in our current operations unlocks additional growth
- Our success is measured by the ability our team has on influencing strategic and operational choices that improve unit economics, increase efficiency across the P&L, and enable leadership to proactively allocate resources as the business scales
- Own the total company forecast & supporting reporting by developing financial projections based on operationally driven inputs. Own the weekly forecast, monthly target setting and reporting, and build out initial versions of a total company dashboards, including high-level views and deeper dives for the finance team
- Drive ROI analysis across both operational and strategic investments to inform the most efficient use of capital. Ensure the company is deploying capital in the highest-ROI way by turning complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable decisions
- Develop financial models to evaluate the impact of strategic initiatives as well as product and operational initiatives including partner acquisition spend or marketplace clearance costs
- Partner cross-functionally to drive efficiencies and accurate forecasting across all P&L lines + all verticals through scenario analysis and operational changes / improvements
- Prepare executive-level reports and presentations to communicate financial analysis, insights, and recommendations to senior leadership
Our take
Labor force participation is at an all-time low in the United States, and companies across the board are struggling to combat the shortfall. Shiftsmart’s solution is a dynamic labor marketplace, matching workers on their platform to temporary gigs, and helping companies fill gaps without committing to, or having to attract, full-time talent.
Shiftsmart’s network of over 1.2 million workers serves big-name enterprises like Google, HP, Apple, and Levi’s, and is part of a growing industry of staffing solutions for hourly workers that have been seeing big VC investments over recent years. Driven by the gig economy becoming more normalized and demand for flexible hours increasing, Shiftsmart saw its revenue increase by nearly 400%, and they put this success down to a competitively unique business model that sees more control being put in the hands of workers and employers alike. They have now done work in over 57 countries, and are operating tens of thousands of shifts each week.
Some user feedback suggests the company still has some kinks to iron out on their platform, with multiple complaints about delayed or missing payments. But with thousands of successful, efficient job placements found over the last few years, Shiftsmart are making strides in an area that looks set to remain in high demand.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Aakash Kumar
(Founder & CEO)Forbes 30 Under 30. Previously founded Searchlight Ventures during college. Worked as a Consultant @ Booz & Co and later as Cloud Business Operations & Strategy Lead @ Google.
Pavan Patel
(CTO)Forbes 30 Under 30. Previously Software Engineer @ Simply Hired and former teacher @ Teach For America.
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