Strategic Finance Manager

Job Highlights

• Title: Strategic Finance Manager
• Type: Full Time
• Experience: 4-6 Years
• Function: Finance/Management
• Location: New York, NY, United States
• Company: Cedar

Company Profile

Cedar empowers multi-party integrations throughout the healthcare ecosystem. The company provides an innovative platform that connects providers and payers.

Job Profile

The company is seeking a Strategic Finance Manager who will play a meaningful role in driving a data-driven approach to our long-term business strategy and ensure execution of those goals .

Own Cedar’s annual corporate planning, financial model & forecasting, and capital allocation and assist with the evaluation of growth opportunities and pricing strategy.

Be a point of contact for our Board and management team on insights related to Cedar’s performance.

Be highly strategic, analytical, and data-focused to keep a pulse on our near-term performance and help Cedar execute its long-term strategic vision.

Communicate and work with various teams within the organization, our investors, and the board.

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

Work Experience

• 4-6 years of experience preferably in investment banking , high-growth corporate finance, private equity, or venture capital.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Assist in preparing materials for the executive team, including board decks, investor materials, and other executive updates.
• Collaborate on ad hoc analysis that drives business decisions across sales, product, capital allocation, expansions, and pricing.
• Design monthly and quarterly financial reports (variance analysis, forecast) and dashboards with impactful insights and critical metrics for Cedar’s leadership.
• Develop new pricing models for our products where market dynamics, competitive landscape, internal development costs, and ongoing variable costs, are assessed to determine optimal pricing.
• Help drive equity and debt fundraising processes from end to end.
• Implement systems and processes to scale planning and reporting across teams.
• Improve predictability/forecasting capabilities of financials and business metrics
• Oversee the deal approval process by providing support, coordination, and decision tracking for all deal approvals, ensuring an efficient and effective deal closure process.
• Understand and communicate financial results and trends to teams, and recommend appropriate courses of action when results vary from forecast.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Excellent listening and communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)
• Excellent proficiency in Excel and developing modeling skills and advanced querying.
• Experience with ERP systems (e.g. NetSuite) and financial planning software.
• Outstanding financial modeling and forecasting skills.
• Passionate about Cedar’s mission of improving the healthcare finance experience.
• Positive attitude with a desire to work across multiple teams and comfortable wearing multiple hats.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to utilize data to determine decisions.

Benefits/Perks

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work.
• A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year.
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally.
• Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation.
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including the Cedarian Advisory Group (a cross-functional cohort focused on increasing internal inclusiveness at Cedar) and three employee resource groups: View email address on click.appcast.io (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
• Unless stated otherwise, most roles have the flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you.
• Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick, and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of PTO per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest, and recharge.

Employer’s Statement

Cedar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company does not discriminate based on any protected group status under any applicable law.