Senior Analyst, Strategic Finance

Rivian•Palo Alto, CA

About The Position

Rivian’s Strategic Finance team is a lean, high-impact group that supports critical executive decisions. It owns the Long-Range Financial Plan (LRP), connecting corporate ambition with resource requirements and capital strategy, and evaluates corporate transactions, commercial structures, capital allocation decisions, and strategic partnerships. The team works across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, Corporate Development, Accounting, and Investor Relations to convert strategy into concrete, auditable plans. The Senior Strategic Finance Analyst handles unstructured, high-stakes financial questions that shape Rivian’s financial trajectory. This self-directed role owns complex projects end to end: defining questions, gathering and diligencing cross-functional assumptions, building financial frameworks from scratch, and presenting recommendations to executive leaders. The analyst develops new business cases, assesses investment economics and strategic opportunities, contributes to the LRP, and translates complex models into executive-ready communications. The role also uses advanced analytics and modern AI productivity tools to improve data synthesis, sensitivity analysis, and scenario iteration.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline.
3–4+ years of total experience; ideally beginning in Investment Banking or Transaction Advisory (FDD), followed by Strategic Finance, Corporate Development, or Private Equity.
Proven ability to build dynamic three-statement operating models, IRR/NPV returns analyses, and complex scenario frameworks from scratch under tight timelines.
Strong understanding of US GAAP, financial statement mechanics, revenue recognition, and capital accounting.
Strong project management skills, including coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, reconciling conflicting data, and driving consensus.
Ability to distill nuanced financial results into concise written memos and executive slide decks for senior leadership.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to independently lead workstreams, run cross-functional meetings, diligence technical assumptions with non-finance teams, and tactfully challenge inputs.
Genuine interest in energy, mobility, and sustainability.

Nice To Haves

Practical experience using frontier AI tools such as Claude or Gemini, or automated scripting, to accelerate research, financial logic checks, and workflow efficiency.
Exposure to modern data warehouses and planning tools such as SAP, Oracle EPM, or Databricks.
Experience in hardware manufacturing, automotive or EV, clean energy, or deep-tech capital investments.

Responsibilities

Develop dynamic, clean, fully auditable three-statement models, DCFs, and scenario frameworks from scratch.
Scope ambiguous strategic questions, define problem statements, source data from cross-functional partners, stress-test cost and revenue assumptions, and identify key sensitivities.
Maintain and enhance core Long-Range Financial Plan models, working with FP&A, Accounting, and business partners to align assumptions with financial reporting and historical baselines.
Run scenario and sensitivity analyses on volume variations, cost-down roadmaps, pricing dynamics, and capital-intensity shifts.
Synthesize financial and technical complexity into executive decks, strategy memos, and board-level materials.
Coordinate across Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Accounting to reconcile figures and keep strategic initiatives financially grounded.
Evaluate new market entries, technology investments, commercial partnerships, make-versus-buy decisions, and other strategic opportunities.
Diligence assumptions with cross-functional partners, challenge consensus when appropriate, and ensure data integrity.
Use advanced analytics and modern AI productivity tools to accelerate data synthesis, financial logic checks, sensitivity analysis, and scenario iteration.