Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

Hippocratic AI•Menlo Park, CA

10h•Onsite

About The Position

Hippocratic AI is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance to join its Strategic Finance team. This high-impact, foundational role will provide strategic insights to company leadership during a period of rapid growth and increasing financial complexity. The role works closely with business units, data science, and accounting to own full P&L forecasts, including GPU and cloud expenses, headcount and contractor expenses, and software costs. It also supports margin analysis and cost optimization initiatives. The position owns the company’s consolidated three-statement financial model and revenue and operating expense forecasts, as well as balance sheet and cash flow forecasts. It partners with accounting to maintain alignment between the general ledger and the financial model, prepares monthly actuals-versus-budget commentary, reports on key business KPIs, and prepares board and investor reporting materials. The Senior Manager owns gross margin modeling, analysis, reporting, and forecasting, partnering with platform engineering, accounting, and go-to-market teams. This includes forecasting cost of goods sold such as GPU and cloud costs, telephony, ASR, TTS, and customer success; modeling GPU, non-GPU cloud, and human evaluation costs; and maintaining forecasts of GPU needs for inference and training with platform engineering and LLM teams. The role also analyzes plan-versus-actual performance, cost trends, and unit economics. The position owns headcount forecasting and reconciliation in partnership with HR and recruiting, including monthly variance analysis. It also forecasts and optimizes contractor, software, and general and administrative spending, provides detailed expense commentary with business owners and accounting, and tracks weekly spend desk requests. The role is expected to be in Hippocratic AI’s Menlo Park office five days a week, unless otherwise specified.

Requirements

7–9 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, and strategic finance/FP&A at a high-growth technology company.
Undergraduate degree in a quantitative field.
Experience forecasting and owning GPU/cloud budgets.
Experience working at a B2B enterprise SaaS company.
Very strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills, and willingness to work with granular quantitative data.
Strong business judgment and ability to work cross-functionally on ambiguous questions and drive accountability with business counterparts.
High degree of ownership and independence; ability to manage multiple priorities, create driver-based forecasts and models, and proactively identify business opportunities and risks.
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to turn complex analysis into actionable recommendations and adapt messaging to different audiences.
AI-first mindset and willingness to learn or experience working with AI applications such as Claude Cowork and building dashboards, agents, or skills to improve and automate processes.
High proficiency in Excel and experience working with financial software and systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience working at a B2B enterprise SaaS company.
Experience working with AI applications such as Claude Cowork and building dashboards, agents, or skills to improve and automate processes.

Responsibilities

Own consolidation and reporting of the company’s three-statement financial model.
Own consolidated revenue and operating expense forecasts.
Own balance sheet and cash flow forecasts.
Work with accounting to maintain accuracy between the general ledger and financial model.
Prepare monthly commentary on actuals versus budget.
Report on key business KPIs and metrics that drive P&L performance.
Prepare materials for board and investor reporting, including presentations, models, and other board views and fundraising materials.
Own gross margin modeling, analysis, and reporting.
Own gross margin forecasting, reporting, analysis, and commentary in partnership with platform engineering, accounting, and go-to-market teams.
Build and own forecasts for cost-of-goods-sold items, including GPU and cloud costs, telephony, ASR, TTS, and customer success teams.
Own GPU, non-GPU cloud cost, and human evaluation modeling and reporting.
Maintain a running forecast of GPUs required for inference and training in partnership with platform engineering and LLM teams.
Build forecasts for non-GPU cloud costs and human evaluation.
Comment on plan-versus-actual performance and trends in overall costs and unit economics.
Own headcount forecasting and reconciliation in partnership with HR.
Work with recruiting to maintain department- and team-level headcount cost forecasts.
Provide monthly plan-versus-actual variance analysis.
Own forecasts and optimization for contractor, software, and G&A spending.
Forecast expenses and provide detailed commentary by department in partnership with business owners and accounting.
Track and capture weekly spend desk requests.