Strategic Finance Lead/ Senior Associate

Join Divergent, a fast-paced and innovative company, as a Strategic Finance Lead/Senior Associate. In this role, you will be responsible for maximizing the company's long-term value through forecasting, analyzing, and influencing performance and growth. You will work closely with executive leadership and have high exposure to the CFO and other leaders across the company. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in analytical roles, exceptional communication skills, and elite financial modeling skills.

• Lead the development and evolution of the company’s financial model, integrating commercial, operational, manufacturing, and capital investment assumptions into a cohesive enterprise outlook.
• Partner directly with executive leadership to identify strategic risks and opportunities, evaluate business model assumptions, and develop recommendations that improve long-term financial performance.
• Serve as the finance lead on high-priority strategic initiatives, including manufacturing scale-up efforts, facility expansions, major capital investments, and new business opportunities.
• The ideal candidate will combine strong technical skills with business acumen, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to translate financial strategy into operational execution. (S06) This role will also help shape long-term business planning, capital allocation, and strategic decision-making across the company
• A bias for action with the ability to drive projects to completion independently, effectively handle competing priorities, and manage deadlines under pressure
• (S06) 7+ years in prior fast-paced, analytical roles (corporate finance, strategic planning, investment banking, management consulting)
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to convey financial insights to executives and non-technical audiences
• Elite financial modeling skills
• Familiarity working across cross-functional teams to translate operational data intofinancial impact
• (S06) Demonstrated ability to influence executive-level decisions through data-driven analysis and strategic recommendations
• (S06) Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives involving senior stakeholders and competing business priorities
• Comfort turning ambiguity into structure and defensible assumptions to solve complex problems
• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or related quantitative field
• Experience analyzing complete, multi-stage manufacturing process or another capital-intensive and operationally complex business
• Familiarity with the Aerospace & Defense GTM cycle, including program-based pricing, contracting structures, and the stakeholder landscape
• Familiarity with ERPs and financial planning tools such as Oracle andDatarails, or similar systems
• (S06) Experience supporting board, investor, fundraising, or executive strategic planning activities
• (S06) Experience building long-range planning, capital allocation, and enterprise scenario modeling frameworks in a high-growth manufacturing, aerospace, defense, automotive, or industrial technology environment