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Strategic Financial Analyst

Gridware· Finance
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$135k - $150kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Strategic Finance role focused on long-range planning, forecasting, fundraising support, and partnering with CFO and cross-functional leaders to drive strategic financial decisions in a fast-growing startup.

Responsibilities

  • Own and continuously evolve the company’s long-range financial plan, integrating revenue, operating, and investment assumptions and developing scenario and sensitivity analyses to inform strategic priorities and capital allocation
  • Partner with the CFO on fundraising prep — investor materials, board decks, data rooms, and diligence support
  • Analyze unit economics to inform go-to-market and investment decisions
  • Support ad hoc strategic projects — new market entry, headcount planning, capital allocation, M&A evaluation
  • Help build scalable finance processes and systems as the company grows
  • Translate complex financial analysis into clear, actionable recommendations for non-finance stakeholders

Qualifications

  • 3–6 years of relevant experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, consulting, strategic finance, FP&A, or a related analytical finance role.
  • Advanced Excel/financial modeling skills; comfort building models from scratch
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills — able to distill complex analysis into a clear narrative for executives and the board
  • A bias toward action and comfort operating with ambiguity in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment
  • Experience with fundraising, board reporting, or investor relations is a plus
  • Strong understanding of core accounting concepts and financial statements, including how business activity flows through the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement
  • Familiarity with SaaS/hardware metrics and startup finance (burn, runway, ARR, gross margin) is a plus

Skills

Required:Financial modelingStrategic analysisCommunication

Benefits

  • Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Alternating day off (every other Monday)
  • Off the Grid, a two week per year paid break for all employees.
  • Commuter allowance
  • Company-paid training
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Protecting the grid today, preparing the grid for tomorrow

Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everyone and makes our modern economy possible. But it’s also fragile. When the grid is compromised, everything grinds to a halt, and the consequences can be dire: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, progress stops, and lives are lost. Our team builds smart sensors that help utility companies to immediately detect, find, and fix outages and take steps to prevent new outages, and other related disasters, from happening at all. The need for power will only increase. We protect the grid of today while we build the grid of tomorrow. Gridware is privately held and backed by the best climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. We are headquartered in the Bay Area in northern California.

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