Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

About Mach Industries

Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition.

Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security.

The Role

Mach Industries is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance to drive financial planning, strategic analysis, and business decision-making across the organization. This individual will partner with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to evaluate business performance, develop financial models, assess investment opportunities, and translate complex financial and operational data into actionable insights.

The ideal candidate combines strong financial acumen with strategic thinking, analytical rigor, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced, evolving environment. This role will play a key part in long-range planning, financial forecasting, resource allocation, and evaluating strategic initiatives to support the company’s growth and operational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Financial Planning: Lead the development of financial plans, long-range forecasts, and strategic financial models to support company growth, operational objectives, and corporate strategy. Translate business priorities into financial plans, identify key financial drivers, and evaluate the potential impact of strategic decisions on company performance.
• Financial Modeling & Scenario Analysis: Build and maintain sophisticated financial models to evaluate business performance, investment opportunities, resource allocation, and strategic initiatives. Conduct sensitivity analyses, scenario planning, and financial simulations to assess risks, evaluate trade-offs, and support data-driven decision-making under varying business conditions.
• Budgeting, Forecasting & Long-Range Planning: Drive key aspects of the annual budgeting process, quarterly forecasting cycles, and multi-year financial planning. Partner with functional leaders to develop operating assumptions, assess resource requirements, challenge financial inputs, and ensure alignment between financial projections and business objectives.
• Executive Decision Support & Strategic Analysis: Partner with executive leadership to evaluate strategic opportunities, develop business cases, and assess the financial implications of major business decisions. Prepare executive-level presentations, financial analyses, and recommendations that clearly communicate performance trends, key risks, investment priorities, and potential paths forward.
• Business Performance & Variance Analysis: Monitor financial and operational performance against budgets, forecasts, and strategic objectives. Identify key performance drivers, investigate material variances, evaluate underlying business trends, and recommend corrective actions to improve financial outcomes and operational efficiency.
• Cross-Functional Business Partnership: Serve as a strategic finance partner to Engineering, Operations, Program Management, Supply Chain, and other functional teams. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand operational requirements, quantify financial implications, evaluate competing priorities, and align resource allocation with company-wide objectives.
• Investment & Capital Allocation Analysis: Evaluate capital investments, strategic initiatives, research and development spending, infrastructure requirements, and other significant expenditures. Develop financial business cases, assess expected returns and payback periods, and provide recommendations to help leadership prioritize investments and deploy capital effectively.
• Cost Structure & Profitability Analysis: Analyze cost drivers, operating expenses, product economics, gross margins, and other profitability metrics to identify opportunities for improved financial performance. Develop analytical frameworks to assess cost trends, understand key business sensitivities, and support decisions related to pricing, resource allocation, and operational efficiency.
• Operational Planning & Resource Optimization: Partner with functional leaders to assess headcount plans, departmental budgets, program spending, and resource requirements. Evaluate the financial impact of alternative operating plans and help leadership balance growth objectives, execution priorities, and cost discipline.
• Financial Reporting & Performance Metrics: Develop and enhance financial reporting, management dashboards, and key performance indicators that provide visibility into company performance. Establish consistent reporting methodologies, improve the quality and timeliness of financial insights, and ensure leadership has the information needed to monitor progress against strategic and financial targets.
• Strategic Initiatives & Business Case Development: Lead financial analysis for cross-functional initiatives, new business opportunities, organizational changes, and other high-impact projects. Define key assumptions, quantify expected costs and benefits, assess financial risks, and establish measurable success criteria to support investment decisions and post-implementation evaluation.
• Financial Process Improvement & Scalability: Identify opportunities to improve financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and modeling processes. Implement standardized methodologies, improve data integrity, automate recurring analyses where appropriate, and develop scalable tools that increase efficiency, accuracy, and consistency across the finance function.
• Risk Assessment & Financial Sensitivity: Identify financial risks, assess the impact of changing business assumptions, and evaluate downside scenarios that could affect company performance. Develop sensitivity analyses and risk frameworks to help leadership understand potential exposures, establish contingency plans, and make informed decisions amid uncertainty.
• Leadership & Stakeholder Influence: Build trusted relationships across the organization and influence business decisions through rigorous analysis, sound financial judgment, and clear communication. Present complex financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders, challenge assumptions constructively, and drive alignment around financial priorities and business outcomes.
• Ad Hoc Analysis & Special Projects: Lead time-sensitive financial analyses and special projects in support of executive leadership and evolving business needs. Apply structured problem-solving to ambiguous business questions, develop actionable recommendations, and deliver high-quality analysis within tight timelines.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic finance, corporate finance, FP&A, investment analysis, management consulting, or a related analytical role.