Strategic Finance Manager

Reflection • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

As a Strategic Finance Manager, you will help build Reflection’s capital allocation, forecasting, and planning processes. You will work across go-to-market, compute, research and development, and corporate finance, building models and analyses to inform resource allocation, opportunity evaluation, and growth planning. The role connects ground-level business activity to rigorous financial thinking.

Reflection is a research lab developing open-weight foundation models and aims to make intelligence open and accessible to all. The role offers the opportunity to help build the company and contribute to the future of open foundational models.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in strategic finance or FP&A at a high-growth technology company, management consulting, investment banking, or a similar field.
• Strong financial modeling skills, including the ability to build clean, auditable models from scratch.
• Experience with deal economics, revenue modeling, or commercial finance at a technology company.
• Comfort with cost-side modeling and an understanding of how compute, headcount, and infrastructure costs behave.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with sales, go-to-market, engineering, research, and finance leadership while maintaining rigor.
• Comfort with ambiguity; takes initiative, operates independently, and brings structure and curiosity to open-ended problems.

Responsibilities

• Build financial models for deals and partnerships, product and channel economics, cost structures, and investment decisions.
• Support the corporate financial model with bottoms-up inputs and maintain its connection to the evolving business.
• Partner with sales, go-to-market, engineering, research, and finance leadership to translate business activity into financial frameworks.
• Develop cost and investment models covering compute, infrastructure, headcount, and research and development to inform resource planning and tradeoff decisions.
• Identify financial risks and opportunities early, and help structure decisions that balance growth with returns.
• Improve the templates, assumptions libraries, and processes used across the team.

Benefits

• Top-tier compensation, with salary and equity structured to recognize and retain talent globally.
• Stock options.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life coverage, with an annual wellness allowance.
• Lunch and dinner provided in the office daily.
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave for new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.
• Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 vacation days in the U.K.
• Visa sponsorship and support for long-term immigration pathways where applicable.
• Regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed