Strategic Finance Manager (Operations)

Join Zipline, a leading logistics company focused on delivering medical supplies to those in need. As a Strategic Finance Manager, Operations, you will be a senior finance partner to Zipline's operations, helping to improve financial performance across various areas. You will own core planning and reporting processes, build and maintain driver-based models, and develop high-priority ad hoc analyses for leadership. The ideal candidate will have 5-10 years of experience in strategic finance or a highly analytical role, strong business partnership skills, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.

• Assumer la responsabilité des processus de planification et de reporting, y compris les prévisions par rapport aux résultats réels, la prévision annuelle et la consolidation.
• Construire et maintenir des modèles basés sur des indicateurs pour les prévisions opérationnelles, la planification à long terme, l'économie unitaire, la performance du site.
• Développer des analyses et des modèles de décision prioritaires pour la direction, y compris les questions liées à la croissance, à la marge, à l'allocation des ressources.

• Comfort working with large datasets and partnering with Data teams. Experience with SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Mode, Tableau, Hex, Python, or R is a plus
• Deep financial modeling experience, including forecasting, scenario analysis, unit economics, P&L analysis, capex and opex planning, investment evaluation, and return-on-investment analysis
• Experience owning forecasting, annual planning, consolidation, variance analysis, and recurring business-performance reviews
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, with the ability to build clean, dynamic, scalable models that others can understand and use
• Experience in hardware, logistics, aviation, robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, fleet operations, healthcare devices, physical infrastructure, or another operations-intensive business is strongly preferred, but not required
• 5–10 years of experience in strategic finance, corporate finance, operations finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, consulting, business operations, or another highly analytical role
• Strong business-partnership skills, including the ability to work directly with operators, understand operational realities, and translate them into financial insight
• Strong financial judgment and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs across growth, margin, capital allocation, operational scale, timing, and complexity
• The ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, work with imperfect data, and create structure where processes are still being built
• High ownership, low ego, and strong curiosity. You are willing to ask basic questions, go deep on operational details, and move work forward across teams without formal authority
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain financial tradeoffs to non-finance partners and operational realities to Finance leaders
• You are energized by business problems where the answer is not obvious and the data is not perfectly packaged
• You can move fluidly between a detailed financial model, a conversation with an operator, anda recommendation to senior leadership
• You know how to build models that are rigorous enough to support major decisions but practical enough to be used by the business
• You are comfortable challenging assumptions while still building trust with business partners
• You want to understand how the operation actually works, not just how it appears in a spreadsheet
• You can distinguish between spending that accelerates scale and spending that adds complexity without enough return