# Strategic Finance Manager — april

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4425535805/
Captured: 2026-06-22

## Basics
- Company: april (embedded, year-round tax platform; white-labeled, AI-powered tax tools; API-first infrastructure)
- Title: Strategic Finance Manager
- Location: New York, NY (hybrid, 3 days/week on-site for NYC metro)
- Seniority: Mid-Senior; first strategic finance hire; senior IC, no current reports (team-building possible as function scales)
- ~111 applicants, posted ~1 week before capture

## Key Responsibilities
- Lead strategic planning, short/long-range financial planning, and scenario modeling
- Build/maintain financial models for pricing, revenue, and capital investment decisions
- Create executive-level analyses and presentations for board meetings
- Partner with leadership on pricing strategies, revenue optimization, and market opportunities
- Design and track strategic KPIs
- Conduct competitive analysis, market research, and financial benchmarking
- Support fundraising and investor relations with modeling and presentation materials
- Identify and quantify revenue growth, pricing, and capital efficiency opportunities

## Required
- 5-8 yrs strategic finance, investment banking, management consulting, or corporate development
- Track record of influencing strategic decisions through financial analysis
- Bachelor's in Finance, Economics, Business, or related
- Expert financial modeling, Excel, and data visualization tools
- Translate complex business problems into actionable recommendations

## Preferred
- MBA or CFA
- Experience with FP&A platforms (Drivetrain, Runway, Pigment, Mosaic)

## Compensation
- Not listed.

## Tailoring notes
- Lead the fit on "first strategic finance hire" — Darsh has built the first forecasting/strategic-finance function at ShareChat and the first agentic finance layer at Epic.
- Usage/consumption economics (Epic AI Creator Tools) parallels april's API-first, usage-based platform.
- CA credential is a quiet domain edge for a tax platform; left in Education rather than a summary claim.
- No fabricated FP&A-platform experience (Pigment/Mosaic/Drivetrain/Runway); covered via Excel + Tableau/PowerBI.