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Strategic Finance Lead roles blend financial modeling, business partnering, and long-term planning, making them a strong fit for F-1 OPT students with finance, economics, or business degrees. Most positions qualify as STEM OPT extensions when classified under financial analysis or operations research occupational codes, giving you up to three years of work authorization.
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We are seeking a rockstar to join our Acrobat Finance team provide critical financial, strategic, and operational support for the Document Cloud organization, the award-winning market leader driving towards a digitized future – where every knowledge worker, business, and institution uses Acrobat to view, edit, collaborate, and transact. This position will be responsible for planning, forecasting, and reporting all financial metrics related to the Document Cloud. You will have a critical part in crafting strategic business objectives, influencing management decisions, leading change, standardizing methodologies, and challenging the status quo as we continue to scale. The finance team celebrates understanding the big picture, and this role will balance deep financial reporting and oversight, with strategic investigation and analysis. We strive to influence key decisions affecting the business and seek top talent to help us steer the ship.
What You’ll Do
- Drive deep business performance analytics and surface relevant insights, while providing financial modeling, analysis, and recommendations to drive the business forward
- Partner with business leaders and assist in the production of critical metrics to help the business on growth initiatives and ensure the execution against the operating plan
- Influence and align with cross-functional teams to drive short-term and long-term financial planning for the product offerings
- Prepare, consolidate, and contribute to executive presentations, telling the story of business performance and risks & opportunities, and applying high impact visuals with compelling insights
- Lead projects to drive automation and operational improvement, reducing time to deliver, while increasing accuracy
What You Need To Succeed
- Positive demeanor, collaborative, and comfort in a heavily matrixed environment that changes as the business evolves
- Solid hands-on experience with Financial Modeling / Forecasting Trend & Variance Analysis
- Strong analytical, and outstanding interpersonal skills, to articulate key business and the financial implications/business impact
- High attention to detail with excellent organizational skills and ability to take charge, set objectives, and drive to results, while remaining team oriented
- Sophisticated Excel skills are crucial, and experience in Tableau, TM1, PowerPoint are preferred; PowerBI and SQL are a plus
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance or related field; MBA or equivalent experience preferred, but not required
- Minimum 4-7 years of FP&A (or related) experience required
About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity. Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.
Let’s Adobe together
At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create. Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more. Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015.
AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process. At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.
Expected Pay Range:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $128,700 -- $243,850 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. In California, the pay range for this position is $168,400 - $243,850. In New York, the pay range for this position is $168,400 - $243,850. In Illinois, the pay range for this position is $136,200 - $197,250. In Washington, the pay range for this position is $142,800 - $206,850. At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP). In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
State-Specific Notices:
California:
Fair Chance Ordinances Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
Colorado:
Application Window Notice If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.
Massachusetts:
Massachusetts Legal Notice It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a rockstar to join our Acrobat Finance team provide critical financial, strategic, and operational support for the Document Cloud organization, the award-winning market leader driving towards a digitized future – where every knowledge worker, business, and institution uses Acrobat to view, edit, collaborate, and transact. This position will be responsible for planning, forecasting, and reporting all financial metrics related to the Document Cloud. You will have a critical part in crafting strategic business objectives, influencing management decisions, leading change, standardizing methodologies, and challenging the status quo as we continue to scale. The finance team celebrates understanding the big picture, and this role will balance deep financial reporting and oversight, with strategic investigation and analysis. We strive to influence key decisions affecting the business and seek top talent to help us steer the ship.
What You’ll Do
- Drive deep business performance analytics and surface relevant insights, while providing financial modeling, analysis, and recommendations to drive the business forward
- Partner with business leaders and assist in the production of critical metrics to help the business on growth initiatives and ensure the execution against the operating plan
- Influence and align with cross-functional teams to drive short-term and long-term financial planning for the product offerings
- Prepare, consolidate, and contribute to executive presentations, telling the story of business performance and risks & opportunities, and applying high impact visuals with compelling insights
- Lead projects to drive automation and operational improvement, reducing time to deliver, while increasing accuracy
What You Need To Succeed
- Positive demeanor, collaborative, and comfort in a heavily matrixed environment that changes as the business evolves
- Solid hands-on experience with Financial Modeling / Forecasting Trend & Variance Analysis
- Strong analytical, and outstanding interpersonal skills, to articulate key business and the financial implications/business impact
- High attention to detail with excellent organizational skills and ability to take charge, set objectives, and drive to results, while remaining team oriented
- Sophisticated Excel skills are crucial, and experience in Tableau, TM1, PowerPoint are preferred; PowerBI and SQL are a plus
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance or related field; MBA or equivalent experience preferred, but not required
- Minimum 4-7 years of FP&A (or related) experience required
About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity. Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.
Let’s Adobe together
At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create. Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more. Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015.
AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process. At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.
Expected Pay Range:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $128,700 -- $243,850 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. In California, the pay range for this position is $168,400 - $243,850. In New York, the pay range for this position is $168,400 - $243,850. In Illinois, the pay range for this position is $136,200 - $197,250. In Washington, the pay range for this position is $142,800 - $206,850. At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP). In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
State-Specific Notices:
California:
Fair Chance Ordinances Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
Colorado:
Application Window Notice If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.
Massachusetts:
Massachusetts Legal Notice It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship in Strategic Finance Lead
Confirm your OPT employer authorization before accepting
Your employer must be registered with E-Verify to hire you during the STEM OPT extension period. Confirm this before signing any offer. Startups and smaller firms sometimes lack E-Verify registration, which would limit you to 12 months of standard OPT.
Target companies with active H-1B sponsorship histories
Strategic Finance Lead roles are almost always classified as specialty occupations, making them strong H-1B visa candidates. Prioritize companies that have sponsored finance professionals before. Past sponsorship behavior is the single most reliable predictor of future sponsorship willingness.
Clarify your SOC code with your DSO early
STEM OPT eligibility for strategic finance roles depends on the Standard Occupational Classification code your employer uses. Financial Analysts (13-2051) and Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) typically qualify. Confirm the correct SOC code with your DSO before your employer files the I-983 training plan.
Position your quantitative skills as a differentiator
Strategic finance candidates with strong modeling, SQL, or Python skills are more competitive and more likely to receive sponsorship. Employers investing in H-1B sponsorship want candidates who are difficult to replace. Emphasize analytical depth, not just financial reporting experience, in every application.
Start the H-1B conversation during the offer stage
Do not wait until your OPT is expiring to raise visa sponsorship. Bring it up directly during offer negotiations so both sides have clear expectations. Employers who are unwilling to sponsor will tell you then, saving you from accepting a role with no long-term path.
Use your OPT period to build cross-functional business credibility
Strategic Finance Leads who partner closely with operations, product, and go-to-market teams are harder to replace and easier to sponsor. Use your OPT window to expand your internal influence, not just close the books. Demonstrated business impact strengthens any future visa petition.
Strategic Finance Lead OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Strategic Finance Lead roles qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Most do, but it depends on the SOC code your employer assigns. Roles classified under Financial Analysts (13-2051) or Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, giving you up to three years total. Roles classified under general management codes typically do not qualify, so confirm the classification with your DSO before your employer files the I-983.
How do I find Strategic Finance Lead jobs that sponsor OPT and H-1B?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for employers willing to sponsor F-1 OPT students and H-1B visa holders, so you're not wasting time on roles that won't support your authorization. Strategic finance positions at growth-stage companies and larger enterprises are the most likely to have sponsorship infrastructure already in place.
Can I work as a Strategic Finance Lead at a startup on OPT?
Yes, but verify the startup is registered with E-Verify before accepting an offer, since STEM OPT extension requires E-Verify compliance. Many early-stage startups have not yet registered. If the company is pre-Series B, also assess whether they have the legal and HR resources to navigate H-1B sponsorship when your OPT window closes.
What happens to my OPT authorization if I get promoted or change roles within the same company?
A promotion within the same employer generally does not disrupt your OPT status as long as the role remains within your degree field. However, if the job duties change significantly, you should notify your DSO and confirm the updated role still aligns with your OPT authorization. For STEM OPT extensions, any material change in employment must be reported through an updated I-983 training plan.
Is a Strategic Finance Lead role strong enough to support an H-1B petition after OPT?
Yes. Strategic Finance Lead positions routinely qualify as H-1B specialty occupations because they require at minimum a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field. The role's combination of financial modeling, business strategy, and cross-functional analysis aligns well with the specialty occupation standard. Employers with prior finance sponsorship experience will find the petition straightforward to prepare.