Manager, Senior Manager, Finance & Corporate Strategy
Lantern is seeking a Manager/Senior Manager, Finance & Corporate Strategy to turn ambiguous strategic and financial questions into clear, board-ready recommendations as the company scales across new markets, service lines, and pricing structures. This role helps the CFO organization invest more deliberately in understanding the financial trade-offs behind capital allocation decisions. This is a new role.
The ideal candidate brings a top-tier management consulting (MBB or equivalent) or corporate strategy background, with a bias toward synthesis and speed over exhaustive analysis. This is high-value, highly visible work - the primary audience for this person's output is the CFO, CEO, and Board of Directors, with a direct seat at the table alongside Finance & Corporate Strategy leadership.
Location: Dallas, TX or New York, NY - Hybrid position - 3x in office per week.
Responsibilities:
Strategic & Financial Analysis
- Lead special-project analyses (e.g., pricing or network economics reviews) that turn ambiguous strategic and financial questions into clear, structured, board-ready recommendations.
- Deliver 4+ such analyses per year, each directly informing a capital allocation or strategic decision.
- Apply advanced Excel modeling and structured problem-solving to translate multi-variable trade-offs into a single recommended path for executives.
Executive & Board Communication
- Own sections of board and investor materials that require unusual analytical depth, with minimal rework required from the CFO.
- Become a trusted analytical partner to the CFO and executive team, credible with CFO-, CEO-, and Board-level audiences.
- Constructively challenge framing and assumptions in executive discussions.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner across Finance & Corporate Strategy and with business unit and functional leaders across Commercial, Operations, and Product/Technology on strategic and financial analyses.
- Partner effectively with Enterprise Analytics without duplicative work, maintaining a clean requirements cadence with no major scope misalignments.
Frameworks & Process
- Build reusable analytical frameworks and templates that raise the analytical bar across Finance & Corporate Strategy.
- Move comfortably across multiple workstreams at once in a high-growth, ambiguous environment.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or related field; MBA a plus.
- 5-8+ years of experience in top-tier management consulting, corporate strategy, and / or corporate finance
- Advanced Excel modeling skills.
- Structured problem-solving and executive communication skills (pyramid principle).
- Moderate working knowledge of Claude or ChatGPT (Claude preferred).
- Familiarity with Databricks, NetSuite, and visualization/automation tools (Lucidchart, Visio, Alteryx, Knime) a plus.
- Healthcare or healthcare technology industry experience a plus.
Strong Candidates Will Demonstrate:
- Structured Problem-Solving: Consulting-grade communication and a bias toward synthesis and speed over exhaustive analysis ("crayon on a napkin").
- Comfort With Ambiguity: Operates effectively at pace in a high-growth environment.
- Executive Presence: Credible with CFO-, CEO-, and Board-level audiences.
- Constructive Challenger: Pushes back on framing and assumptions (a plus).
- Multi-Workstream Fluency: Comfortable moving across multiple workstreams at once (a plus).
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Short & Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- 401k with company match
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
Compensation: Base salary range: $185,000 - $215,000 + annual bonus (depends on location/level/relevant experience)