ABOUT NOOKS
Are you seeking an exciting and unique opportunity to grow and support our national security? As a startup, we are offering a limited-time opportunity to be an equity owner in a pioneering new industry. Nooks is pioneering Classified Infrastructure-as-a-Service (CIaaS) to provide government and industry partners with the fastest, most efficient access to classified infrastructure. We are building a nationwide network of accredited classified spaces and systems, ensuring that the best technologies equip our nation’s warfighters. At Nooks, we value innovation, collaboration, and a service-first mindset.
The Senior Strategic Finance Manager will support Nooks’ ongoing efforts within its Product and Growth areas of our expanding business - refining use cases, developing business cases in line with Company IRR policies, and proactively bringing a critical lens to future company transactions as Nooks continues to scale. This role reports to Finance with dotted-line accountability to our Product and Growth teams, with future team scaling on the horizon.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:- Manage development of business/use cases related to strategic planning across both Product (Digital, Physical, Mobile) and Growth areas of the business, acting as a key Point-of-Contact for Finance initiatives.
- Review and support creation of Investor Relations Materials.
- Support diligence around possible company transactions and other capital structure/strategic redesigns as we continue to scale.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product and Growth to evaluate trade-off decisions.
- Build, implement, and refine processes in identifying best practices, areas of improvement, and key performance indicators (KPIs) as we continue to grow.
- 10+ years of financial analysis experience in banking and financial services areas including FP&A, risk, financial modeling, budgeting/forecasting, and compliance.
- Prior experience managing projects and teams in supporting multiple stakeholders with hard deadlines.
- Comfort in building, maintaining executive management-level relationships.
- Able to navigate ambiguity with a bias to action/taking a proactive approach.
- Education- minimum Bachelors Degree-Finance, Accounting; Masters of Science-Finance (MSF) / MBA preferred.
- Combination of federal industry and/or startup experience preferred.
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