Strategic Finance Associate

<div class="content-intro"><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Caribou </strong></span></div> <div> <p>At Caribou, we care about giving people financial freedom so they can focus on what’s most important to them. Today, less than two percent of Americans refinance their auto loans despite drastic increases in the cost of new and used cars. We see huge potential to help folks reduce their monthly auto expenses, as well as increase the predictability of those expenses over time. We do this by building technology to pair customers with community banks and credit unions, and ushering them through the process quickly. On average, our drivers save $159/month on their car loans while protecting their investment long term. </p> <p>Caribou is led by leaders from the technology, automotive, and finance industries. We’re proud to be backed by a great team of investors, including QED Investors, Goldman Sachs, Moderne Ventures, Accomplice, Link Ventures, Motley Fool Ventures and others.</p> </div></div><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>The Strategic Finance Associate will be a key member of Caribou’s Finance organization focused on setting, managing and accelerating the overall financial targets for Caribou’s Sales Operations, Technology and Product functions. </p> <p>This role sits squarely at the cross-section of Finance, Strategy and Operations supported by a world class Finance, Accounting, Analytics Data Science team and wider business leaders. This role will report to Caribou’s Senior Manager, Corporate Finance and drive fundamental impacts to the business with significant exposure to Caribou’s senior leadership team. </p> <p><strong>In this role, you will…</strong></p> <ul> <li>Partner with key stakeholders primarily within Sales Operations, Technology and Product, but more widely across the organization to create financial visibility and apply sound financial theory to assist in setting business priorities. </li> <li>Create and structure financial models needed in support of greenfield initiatives as well as scale core offerings.</li> <li>Think strategically and leverage analysis from models to aid in decision making.</li> <li>Ensure and validate efficient capital deployment and management across Caribou’s Sales Operations, Technology and Product departments.</li> <li>Work closely with the Accounting function to anchor to actuals and proactively identify trends surfacing in the financials. </li> <li>Assist in conducting ad-hoc analysis and preparing recurring reporting deliverables with cross-functional teams. </li> <li>Support a variety of investor, capital investment and planning and Board reporting deliverables.</li> <li>Capture the entirety of financial implications across Caribou’s PL, Balance Sheet and Cash position. </li> <li>Continuously develop, innovate and elevate analysis and reporting highlighting key insights that drive action. </li> </ul> <p>This role can be based out of our Caribou office in Denver, CO. Alternatively, this role may work remotely from a state where Caribou operates with a preference for the Chicago, IL, Denver, CO or San Francisco, CA markets.* This role may require attendance at occasional in-person team meetings. </p> <p><strong>About You</strong></p> <p>You, like us, are driven to achieve your goals. At Caribou, we have just three core values: <strong>Give a damn. Velocity. Make the assist</strong>. We’re motivated. We race towards our goals. And we help each other along the way. </p> <ul> <li>2 - 4 years of Finance experience within a high growth technology environment, investment banking, private equity, corporate finance and / or corporate strategy.</li> <li>MBA and / or CFA (designation or in progress) a plus.</li> <li>Sound understanding of financial statements and financial theory.</li> <li>Advanced Excel skills and data-driven approach to solving complex financial decisions, with very strong attention to detail. </li> <li>A critical thinker who can clearly articulate c ... (truncated, view full listing at source)