Hopper Finance & Strategy Manager at Hopper builds financial models and leads business reviews to support strategic decisions. This role partners with leadership to evaluate opportunities and automate reporting using SQL and AI tools.
Responsibilities
As a Finance & Strategy Manager at Hopper, you will be a finance partner to business leaders across the company, helping them understand performance, evaluate opportunities and make better decisions. You will build the models behind our forecasts, partnerships and strategic plans, lead business reviews, and turn analysis into clear recommendations for senior leadership and the CFO.
This role is a great fit for someone who has built rigorous models under pressure in investment banking or private equity and now wants to apply those skills in-house, closer to the decisions. We are a lean team that moves fast, and we use SQL and AI tools like Claude to automate the manual work so we can spend our time on analysis and strategy.
What would your day-to-day look like
Build and maintain integrated financial models, scenario and sensitivity analyses, and business cases for new products, partnerships and investments
Evaluate the economics of new commercial agreements (pricing, revenue share, unit economics, ROI) and help shape deal terms with business leaders
Support fundraising, M&A and capital allocation decisions, including the models and analysis behind them
Own the monthly and quarterly forecast for the areas you support, and contribute to the annual budget and long-range plan by building the driver-based models and inputs that connect operational metrics to P&L outcomes
Lead monthly and quarterly reviews of actuals vs. plan and forecast, explain variances, and flag risks and opportunities to business leaders
Partner with leadership on high-impact questions such as market sizing, investment prioritization and cost optimization
Prepare clear, executive-, board- and investor-ready materials that tell the story behind the numbers
Use SQL, BigQuery and AI tools to automate recurring reporting and analysis so the team spends less time handling data and more time on insight
An ideal candidate has
Qualification
Advanced financial modeling skillsExcellent communication skillsHands-on use of AI toolsExperience in tech
Required
4+ years of experience in investment banking, corporate development, private equity, strategic finance or FP&A
Advanced financial modeling skills
Solid understanding of accounting and financial statements
Excellent communication skills
Working knowledge of SQL or ability to learn quickly
Hands-on use of AI tools
Preferred
Experience in tech, fintech, travel, marketplaces or B2B partnerships
Experience with Python and/or BI tools (Looker, Tableau, etc.)
