Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

Job description

The Role At Pilot, we partner with founders and executive teams to help them make high-impact financial and strategic decisions. As a Senior Manager on the Consulting Services team, you will serve as the strategic finance lead to a portfolio of businesses, acting as both a trusted advisor and a hands-on operator. You will guide founders through growth tradeoffs, margin expansion, hiring plans, pricing strategy, fundraising readiness, and long-term financial planning. You’ll bring structure to ambiguity and translate financial performance into clear, actionable insights. While each engagement is grounded in strong FP&A fundamentals, including building and maintaining robust three-statement models, your impact will come from how you interpret the data, challenge assumptions, and guide executive decision-making. You won’t be siloed into a single vertical. Instead, you’ll work across industries and stages to help founders build durable, scalable businesses. Key Responsibilities: - Own a portfolio of client engagements as the primary strategic finance partner to founders and executive teams - Build long-term, trust-based client relationships grounded in sound judgment and measurable imp...