Manager/Senior Manager, Finance & Corporate Strategy

Lantern•New York, NY

22d•$185,000 - $215,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Lantern is seeking a Manager/Senior Manager, Finance & Corporate Strategy to turn ambiguous strategic and financial questions into clear, board-ready recommendations as the company scales across new markets, service lines, and pricing structures. This role helps the CFO organization invest more deliberately in understanding the financial trade-offs behind capital allocation decisions. This is a new role. The ideal candidate brings a top-tier management consulting (MBB or equivalent) or corporate strategy background, with a bias toward synthesis and speed over exhaustive analysis. This is high-value, highly visible work — the primary audience for this person's output is the CFO, CEO, and Board of Directors, with a direct seat at the table alongside Finance & Corporate Strategy leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or related field; MBA a plus.
5-8+ years of experience in top-tier management consulting, corporate strategy, and / or corporate finance
Advanced Excel modeling skills.
Structured problem-solving and executive communication skills (pyramid principle).
Moderate working knowledge of Claude or ChatGPT (Claude preferred).
Familiarity with Databricks, NetSuite, and visualization/automation tools (Lucidchart, Visio, Alteryx, Knime) a plus.
Healthcare or healthcare technology industry experience a plus.
Structured Problem-Solving: Consulting-grade communication and a bias toward synthesis and speed over exhaustive analysis ("crayon on a napkin").
Comfort With Ambiguity: Operates effectively at pace in a high-growth environment.
Executive Presence: Credible with CFO-, CEO-, and Board-level audiences.
Constructive Challenger: Pushes back on framing and assumptions (a plus).
Multi-Workstream Fluency: Comfortable moving across multiple workstreams at once (a plus).

Nice To Haves

MBA
Familiarity with Databricks, NetSuite, and visualization/automation tools (Lucidchart, Visio, Alteryx, Knime)
Healthcare or healthcare technology industry experience
Constructive Challenger: Pushes back on framing and assumptions
Multi-Workstream Fluency: Comfortable moving across multiple workstreams at once

Responsibilities

Lead special-project analyses (e.g., pricing or network economics reviews) that turn ambiguous strategic and financial questions into clear, structured, board-ready recommendations.
Deliver 4+ such analyses per year, each directly informing a capital allocation or strategic decision.
Apply advanced Excel modeling and structured problem-solving to translate multi-variable trade-offs into a single recommended path for executives.
Own sections of board and investor materials that require unusual analytical depth, with minimal rework required from the CFO.
Become a trusted analytical partner to the CFO and executive team, credible with CFO-, CEO-, and Board-level audiences.
Constructively challenge framing and assumptions in executive discussions.
Partner across Finance & Corporate Strategy and with business unit and functional leaders across Commercial, Operations, and Product/Technology on strategic and financial analyses.
Partner effectively with Enterprise Analytics without duplicative work, maintaining a clean requirements cadence with no major scope misalignments.
Build reusable analytical frameworks and templates that raise the analytical bar across Finance & Corporate Strategy.
Move comfortably across multiple workstreams at once in a high-growth, ambiguous environment.