Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

As a Senior Manager of Strategic Finance at Chainalysis, you will be a key thought partner to senior leadership, supporting long-term financial modeling, evaluating growth opportunities, driving capital allocation decisions, creating comprehensive pricing analyses, and building the analytical frameworks that guide investment across the business. You report directly to the VP Head of Finance and work closely with the CFO and leadership throughout the company on its most consequential strategic decisions.

What you'll do

• Lead valuation work, TAM analyses, market research, and competitive intelligence analyses
• Analyze current pricing and packaging models, develop a deep understanding of market pricing trends related to AI and consumption, and influence pricing strategy across public and private sectors, geographies, products, and segments
• Enhance and own the company's long-range financial model by understanding key business and industry drivers, building dynamic models that allow leadership to rapidly evaluate the financial impact of strategic decisions, and leading sensitivity analysis around macro factors relevant to the blockchain and crypto industry
• Scale the financial model and build it into the planning tool
• Create sophisticated financial models and drive scenario analyses that inform major capital allocation decisions, including M&A, partnerships, and new market entry
• Synthesize scenario outputs into clear, executive-ready narratives and recommendations
• Track post-investment performance against underwriting assumptions and surface learnings back into the planning process
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on high-stakes questions, understanding the long-term impact of near-term decisions
• Be operationally savvy by understanding the operational impacts of strategic work, partnering with the business to ensure suggestions are operationally feasible, and assisting with implementation of operational changes resulting from strategic decisions

What you bring

• 6-9 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate finance, FP&A, or a similar analytical role
• Strong executive presentation skills with the ability to clearly and succinctly present complex topics to a C-level audience
• An investor mindset and ability to synthesize complex business dynamics into clear investment theses and risk-adjusted recommendations
• Strong business intuition that connects financial outcomes to operational drivers and tells the story behind the numbers
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and making high-quality decisions with incomplete information
• An entrepreneurial orientation and eagerness to define and develop the strategic finance function, not just execute within it
• Excellent financial modeling skills, including the ability to work with large data sets in both Excel and Google Sheets

Nice to have

• Experience working at a SaaS, data, or technology company
• Familiarity with the blockchain, crypto, or Web3 industry

About Chainalysis

Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform providing data, software, services, and research to government agencies, financial institutions, cybersecurity companies, and others to detect and prevent cryptocurrency crime and ensure compliance. Backed by top-tier investors, Chainalysis is building the foundational data infrastructure for the future of finance.