Strategic Finance Operator, Data

Mechanism Ventures

Finance Operator building data infrastructure for various companies. Requires financial expertise and strong SQL skills, focused on automating workflows.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $150,000 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build the data infrastructure all companies depend on
Combine data expertise with financial and accounting acumen to automate workflows like revenue recognition, cohort analysis, and reconciliations.
Create automated financial alerts that catch problems early and surface them automatically
Grow into communicating what you build
Handle the full financial surface area across multiple businesses
Provide genuine competence in navigating financial questions and not just escalating them

Requirements

What you’ll need

3-6 years of FP&A, financial analysis, or a finance-adjacent analytical role
Use SQL to answer financial questions, not just pull data.
Built something from messy, real-world financial data.
Understand revenue recognition across at least one business model.
Know the difference between a technically correct output and a financially correct one.
Have built a cohort model from raw data.
Have worked in a multi-entity environment.
Experience with Aleph, Looker, Metabase, or a comparable FP&A or BI platform at the build level.
Enough accounting literacy to spot a miscoded transaction and know the correct treatment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical
Dental
Vision
Unlimited time off with a two-week minimum

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLfinancial analysisrevenue recognitioncohort analysisdata automationfinancial modelingdata infrastructuremulti-entity environmentaccounting literacydata cleaning

Soft Skills

communicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingcompetence in financial questionscollaboration