Strategic Finance
At a glance
Mid-level FP&A role at Sent, Inc. New York · full-time · $150,000–$200,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Keep the financial model current across revenue, staffing, expenses, and cash flow, and make it useful for decisions
- Run budgets, forecasts, and long-range scenarios so leaders can plan across different growth paths
- Help company leaders weigh tradeoffs by framing decisions with clear financial analysis
- Create performance reports and recurring templates, including board materials, monthly reviews, and team-level profit and loss statements
- Assess vendor, staffing, and infrastructure costs, and model the impact of proposed investments and hiring
What you bring
- At least four years in strategic finance, banking, private equity, or an analytical role at a high-growth company
- You have built and managed a financial model yourself, with the precision to start from a blank page
- You can turn complicated numbers into a clear account that prompts action from colleagues outside finance
- You have some background in fundraising, board reporting, or investor relations
Who this fits
This role suits someone from banking, private equity, or startup finance who wants hands-on operating work alongside analysis. You’ll work directly with the leadership team and are expected to move work forward with little oversight. The position is based on-site in New York.
From the employer
About Sent
Sent is an infrastructure for sending A2P messages across SMS, WhatsApp, and RCS through a single unified API. Our intelligent routing model automates channel selection based on deliverability and cost, ensuring lower cost and global reach without any channel-specific integrations.
We recently closed a $12M Series A backed by Companyon Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, UIF, and others. We're hiring to build the best infrastructure to replace multi-channel messaging stacks.
About the Role
We're looking for our first Strategic Finance hire - someone who has come up through investment banking, private equity, or a high-growth startup and genuinely enjoys the operational side of finance as much as the analytical one. You might be a banker who's been itching to get inside a company and support better decisions from the inside, a PE associate ready for something more entrepreneurial, or a startup finance person who's ready to go deeper. Whatever the path, you're someone who can turn a messy spreadsheet and a room full of competing priorities into a clear point of view.
You'll work directly alongside our leadership team to own our financial model, drive planning cycles, and help every team make smarter decisions with better data. You'll help shape how Sent thinks about growth, investment, and long-term strategy.
What You'll Do
Own Sent's financial model end-to-end: revenue, headcount, expenses, and cash flow - keeping it current, credible, and actually used
Drive planning cycles including budgeting, forecasting, and long-range scenario planning
Become a trusted thought partner for leaders across the company, helping them structure decisions and tradeoffs through clear financial framing
Build the reporting and performance tracking infrastructure that keeps leadership aligned on where we are versus plan, and where the biggest risks and opportunities live
Develop business cases and scenario analyses for new investments, strategic bets, and hiring plans - giving leadership the structured framing they need to move fast
Analyze vendor spend, headcount costs, and infrastructure expenses to support budgeting decisions
Build the reporting cadence and templates that will scale as the company grows: board decks, monthly business reviews, department-level P&Ls
What We're Looking For
4+ years of experience in strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, or a similarly analytical role at a high-growth company
Strong financial modeling skills - you've owned a model, not just inherited one. You're fast, precise, and comfortable building from scratch
The ability to translate complex data into a clear narrative and get stakeholders who don't live in spreadsheets to actually act on what you're showing them
Exposure to fundraising, board reporting, or investor relations
You operate with low oversight and high output - you figure out what's needed, build it, and keep moving
Our Commitment to You
Meaningful equity with high growth potential
Top-tier medical, dental, vision fully covered
401(k) with 100% match up to 4%
Unlimited PTO
Beautiful NYC workspace with daily meals and unlimited snacks
New MacBook Pro + Apple Studio Display
Wellhub Gold or Equinox stipend
Sent, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.