Manager/Senior Manager, Finance & Corporate Strategy

Job Description

Job Description

About Lantern

Lantern is the specialty care platform connecting people with the best care when they need it most. By curating a Network of Excellence comprised of the nation's top specialists for surgery, cancer care, infusions and more, Lantern delivers excellent care with significant cost savings to employers and their workforces. Lantern also pairs members with a dedicated care team, including Care Advocates and nurses, for the entirety of their care journey, helping them get back to good health, back to their families and back to work. With convenient access to specialists nationwide, Lantern means quality care is within driving distance for most. Lantern is trusted by the nation's largest employers to deliver care to more than 6 million members across the country. Learn more about us at lanterncare.com. 

 

Manager, Senior Manager, Finance & Corporate Strategy

Lantern is seeking a Manager/Senior Manager, Finance & Corporate Strategy to turn ambiguous strategic and financial questions into clear, board-ready recommendations as the company scales across new markets, service lines, and pricing structures. This role helps the CFO organization invest more deliberately in understanding the financial trade-offs behind capital allocation decisions. This is a new role.

The ideal candidate brings a top-tier management consulting (MBB or equivalent) or corporate strategy background, with a bias toward synthesis and speed over exhaustive analysis. This is high-value, highly visible work — the primary audience for this person's output is the CFO, CEO, and Board of Directors, with a direct seat at the table alongside Finance & Corporate Strategy leadership.

Location : Dallas, TX or New York, NY - Hybrid position - 3x in office per week. 

Responsibilities:

Strategic & Financial Analysis

• Lead special-project analyses (e.g., pricing or network economics reviews) that turn ambiguous strategic and financial questions into clear, structured, board-ready recommendations.
• Deliver 4+ such analyses per year, each directly informing a capital allocation or strategic decision.
• Apply advanced Excel modeling and structured problem-solving to translate multi-variable trade-offs into a single recommended path for executives.

Executive & Board Communication

• Own sections of board and investor materials that require unusual analytical depth, with minimal rework required from the CFO.
• Become a trusted analytical partner to the CFO and executive team, credible with CFO-, CEO-, and Board-level audiences.
• Constructively challenge framing and assumptions in executive discussions.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner across Finance & Corporate Strategy and with business unit and functional leaders across Commercial, Operations, and Product/Technology on strategic and financial analyses.
• Partner effectively with Enterprise Analytics without duplicative work, maintaining a clean requirements cadence with no major scope misalignments.

Frameworks & Process

• Build reusable analytical frameworks and templates that raise the analytical bar across Finance & Corporate Strategy.
• Move comfortably across multiple workstreams at once in a high-growth, ambiguous environment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or related field; MBA a plus.
• 5-8+ years of experience in top-tier management consulting, corporate strategy, and / or corporate finance
• Advanced Excel modeling skills.
• Structured problem-solving and executive communication skills (pyramid principle).
• Moderate working knowledge of Claude or ChatGPT (Claude preferred).
• Familiarity with Databricks, NetSuite, and visualization/automation tools (Lucidchart, Visio, Alteryx, Knime) a plus.
• Healthcare or healthcare technology industry experience a plus.

Strong Candidates Will Demonstrate:

• Structured Problem-Solving: Consulting-grade communication and a bias toward synthesis and speed over exhaustive analysis ("crayon on a napkin").
• Comfort With Ambiguity: Operates effectively at pace in a high-growth environment.
• Executive Presence: Credible with CFO-, CEO-, and Board-level audiences.
• Constructive Challenger: Pushes back on framing and assumptions (a plus).
• Multi-Workstream Fluency: Comfortable moving across multiple workstreams at once (a plus).

  Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401k with company match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave

Compensation : Base salary range: $185,000 - $215,000 + annual bonus (depends on location/level/relevant experience)

About You:

• You use LOGIC in your decision making and understand that progress is critical to making change. You focus on the execution of your content while balancing a fast-paced environment and you take the time to celebrate both the small & big wins. 
• INCLUSION is a core tenant of your personal beliefs. A diverse and inclusive environment is incredibly important to you. You understand and desire to be a part of a diverse team with different experiences and perspectives & you cherish the differences in each individual that you interact with.
• You have the GRIT , drive and ambition to tackle big problems. Big problems require big ideas and a team that supports new ideas. 
• You care deeply for your customers are driven to keep HUMANITY in all decisions. Your customers aren't just the individuals using your product. They are the driving factor in your motivation to make a change.
• Integrity guides you in life. Focusing on the TRUTH vs. giving people the answers they want to hear. 
• You thrive in a Team Environment. Collaboration is key in innovation and creating change.

These pillars of LIGHT are a reminder to our team that we are making a difference by providing guidance and support in navigating the often complex and confusing landscape of healthcare. We hope that through this  LIGHT , individuals can find their way to the best care, resources, and support they need to get back to life. 

 

If this sounds like you, we would love to connect to speak further about career opportunities at Lantern.

Please apply to our role & someone from our Talent Acquisition Team will reach out to help you navigate our interview process.

Lantern does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.