Strategic Finance Lead

Datavant is a data logistics company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. We are a data logistics company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. Datavant has a network of networks consisting of thousands of organizations, more than 70,000 hospitals and clinics, 70% of the 100 largest health systems, and an ecosystem of 500+ real-world data partners.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We hire for three traits: we want people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs.

In leading Strategic Finance: 

• Your work will be highly visible to Datavant leadership, instrumental to realizing Datavant's business aspirations, and will drive impact to the business 
• You will partner with the CFO of the Life Science division, executive leadership and cross-functional leaders including Sales, Marketing, Product, and Strategy
• You will contribute critical financial insight to drive M&A, commercial and product strategy, divisional performance measurement, and other key strategic and business decisions

What you bring to the table:

• At least 5-7 years of experience in strategic finance at a high growth company and/or investment banking with strong financial modeling skills
• Demonstrated experience driving new initiatives by collaborating with and influencing multiple cross-functional partners
• Proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners and executives; you are seen as a trusted and objective advisor
• Sound business judgment and ability to bring clarity through business insights based on deep analytical rigor
• Ability to proactively seek out opportunities to analyze business problems, make recommendations, and translate complex concepts into actionable insights
• Ability to quickly internalize the nuances of complex financial agreements and support the sales team and leadership in negotiations throughout the customer cycle
• An enthusiastic self-starter with a "roll up your sleeves" mentality
• Ability to manage multiple work streams and maintain high performance under tight timelines
• Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of corporate finance and working knowledge of GAAP

What you’ll do:

• Evaluate and advise on deals and business cases through financial modeling and analysis, analytical insights, and benchmarking
• Work with cross-functional partners, including Sales, Product, Treasury Finance, Accounting, and other Finance and Strategy teams, to develop core business models and processes 
• Own the financial implications of the entire customer lifecycle, becoming a trusted partner to the Sales team as they contemplate new contract structures 
• Develop strategic insights across a portfolio of customers and identify potential long-term strategic or optimization opportunities
• Support the development of financial frameworks, metrics, and reporting to provide observability of key metrics and communicate actionable insights to stakeholders
• Design and provide analytical rigor to measure efficiency and ROI of investments 
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges for this position are developed with the support of benchmarks and industry best practices. 

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact. The range posted is for a giv