Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

About the role

Chainalysis operates a blockchain data platform used by government agencies, financial institutions, and cybersecurity companies to detect and prevent cryptocurrency crime. The company provides data, software, services, and research to ensure regulatory compliance. Backed by top-tier investors, Chainalysis builds the data infrastructure for the future of finance. The Finance and Strategy team advise leadership, refine processes, and support rapid business expansion. They seek to align with innovation speed and deliver real-time insights to decision-makers. This Senior Manager role reports to the VP Head of Finance. You will function as a key thought partner to senior leadership. You will own the development and application of advanced analytical frameworks that evaluate strategic options and investment direction across the business. The role demands rigorous quantitative analysis, high-level executive communication, and sophisticated stakeholder management. It represents a high-visibility, high-impact position that directly influences the long-term trajectory of the company. You will act as a critical bridge between complex financial models and actionable leadership decisions.

Key facts

What you'll do

You will spearhead valuation work, total addressable market analysis, and primary and secondary market research initiatives. You will spearhead the advancement of overall market analysis and competitive intelligence gathering to maintain strategic advantage. You will challenge and analyze current pricing and packaging models to identify optimization opportunities. You will develop a deep, nuanced understanding of market pricing trends, particularly in relation to artificial intelligence adoption and consumption patterns. You will master the nuances between public and private sectors, distinct geographies, diverse products, and varied customer segments. You will leverage this insight to proactively influence and shape pricing strategy across the organization.

You will enhance, own, and be accountable for the company's long-range financial model, ensuring it reflects the latest business realities. You will strive to understand key business and industry drivers inside and out to build dynamic, responsive models. These models will empower leadership to rapidly assess the financial impact of strategic decisions and emerging opportunities. You will lead sophisticated sensitivity analysis around critical macro factors relevant to the blockchain and broader crypto industry landscape. You will scale the model's architecture and integrate it seamlessly into the company's core planning and forecasting tools.

You will create complex financial models and drive in-depth scenario analyses to support major capital allocation decisions. These decisions will encompass mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and new market entry strategies. You will synthesize complex scenario outputs into clear, concise, and executive-ready narratives with actionable recommendations. You will establish a framework to track post-investment performance against original underwriting assumptions and hypotheses. You will formally surface learnings and insights back into the continuous planning and modeling process.

You will serve as a trusted, go-to advisor to senior leadership on high-stakes, strategic questions with far-reaching implications. You will develop a profound understanding of the long-term impact of near-term tactical decisions on future value. You will formulate and present clear recommendations to the leadership team and the executive committee. You will maintain a high degree of operational savvy and commercial awareness. You will evaluate the operational impacts and feasibility of strategic finance initiatives. You will partner closely with business units to ensure recommendations are practical and implementable. You will provide support for the implementation of operational changes stemming from approved strategic decisions.

Requirements

You will bring a minimum of 6-9 years of progressive experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate finance, FP&A, or a closely related analytical field. You will demonstrate exceptional executive presentation skills, allowing you to clearly and succinctly present complex topics and analyses to a C-level audience. You will possess a true investor mindset, capable of synthesizing complex business dynamics into clear investment theses and risk-adjusted recommendations. You will exhibit strong business intuition, connecting financial outcomes directly to underlying operational drivers and telling the story behind the numbers. You will operate with comfort and effectiveness in environments characterized by ambiguity, making high-quality decisions even when information is incomplete.

You will have a strong entrepreneurial orientation, taking ownership in defining and developing the strategic finance function rather than merely executing within an existing structure. You will maintain world-class financial modeling skills, demonstrating precision and accuracy in your work. You will be highly proficient in working with large, complex data sets using both Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. You will have substantial experience working within a SaaS, data, or technology company environment, which provides context for the role's demands. While familiarity with blockchain, cryptocurrency, or Web3 technologies represents a significant strength and a strong advantage, it is not a mandatory requirement for success in this position.

Practical notes

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